Re: Ceuta is what happe ns when you’re not serious abo ut migr ation

On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 16:10:39 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 8/1/2026 1:54 PM, Tara wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2026 at 1:17:00?PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ursula von der Leyen doesn’t seem to care about the tide of people
>>> rushing the Spanish border. Voters in Britain will
>>>
>>>
>>> If any of us were in doubt about the scale of the problem facing our
>>> borders, that ended in half an hour on Thursday. Thousands of topless
>>> Moroccan men were filmed scrambling over rocks, pushing over walls and
>>> setting things on fire as they rushed into Ceuta, the Spanish exclave in
>>> north Africa.
>>>
>>> To watch the footage was, simply, to be boggled. How many people were in
>>> that frame? Why were they doing this? Who even were they?
>>>
>>> And what about the people of Ceuta, a city with a population smaller
>>> than Eastbourne on the coast near Tangier, long governed by Spain? What
>>> would we do if Eastbourne was overrun by 60,000 foreign berserkers?
>>>
>>> Some would argue it already has been.
>>>
>>> I’ve written a lot about Nigel Farage, the movement of people and the
>>> threat of small boats. And, to be honest, I’ve always been a bit
>>> embarrassed doing it. You don’t have to have watched The Odyssey to know
>>> that human decency says you must at least try to welcome refugees and
>>> migrants, especially if you’re one of the richest countries in the world
>>> and they’re victims of wars you’ve started or meddled in — which is, of
>>> course, in the end, most of the wars. This has always been Europe’s
>>> position.
>>>
>>> Yet, looking at the surging crowds, I thought: hasn’t it gone a bit far
>>> now? Europe wants us to do what?
>>>
>>> They want us to just deal with thousands more illegals, on top of the
>>> thousands who have already come here on boats this year — 752 on
>>> Wednesday alone — because they simply can’t be bothered to stop them or,
>>> worse, expect us to actually welcome them in, as they do? To give them
>>> free houses, taxis, mobile phones, allow scores of dependants to also
>>> come across — because: human rights — when there are barely enough
>>> houses for the people who are already here, when taxes are this high,
>>> when the NHS is messy, dysfunctional and killing people?
>>>
>>> Are we just expected to take it?
>>>
>>> For Ursula von der Leyen, the useless, robo-haired functionary at the
>>> top of the European Commission, the answer is yes. She couldn’t have
>>> cared less about the Ceuta stampede. At most, for her, thousands of
>>> gleeful men romping up metal railings, raiding shops and then sleeping,
>>> half-naked, out in the open, were a mere HR/health and safety issue.
>>>
>>> “Dangerous crossings” must not happen, she tweeted on Friday. “I tasked
>>> two commissioners to support to control the situation.”
>>>
>>> I looked up the commissioners. One was a wet-looking Austrian ninth-tier
>>> politician, a holder of the Grand Cross of Liechtenstein. The other was
>>> a former mayor of Dubrovnik and recipient of the 2006 World Mayor Award.
>>> Are they real people? It’s like sending Gareth and Dawn from The Office.
>>>
>>> Europe has never been serious about stopping migration. Philosophically,
>>> it’s not their thing. Effective returns of people who flood into Greece,
>>> Spain, Italy, France and so on bump along at only 28 per cent. Spain’s
>>> prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, whose recent policies made the rush on
>>> Ceuta possible, could not, when he addressed the press on Friday, even
>>> bring himself to use the word “border”. The police would put a “physical
>>> containment barrier” in the sea, he said, to stop migrants swimming the
>>> three miles from Morocco to Spain.
>>>
>>> How about telling them they simply won’t be welcome? How about not
>>> promising an amnesty, as he did this year, prompting the surge? How
>>> about seeing a huge body of random people just over the border and not
>>> automatically thinking, what can I do to make it even easier for these
>>> people to enter my territory? What can I give them? Shall I pass them a
>>> lifejacket, a cup of tea, a credit card, an SUV and a four-bedroom house
>>> in Kilburn?
>>>
>>> These people aren’t refugees, by the way, or asylum seekers. They’re
>>> economic migrants, chancing it. As one of them put it, when the border’s
>>> down they’ll try anything, because: “Salaries are very low in Morocco.
>>> It’s dead, Morocco is dead.”
>>>
>>> For them, Ceuta’s a jaunty day trip.
>>>
>>> Any serious attempt to deal with the many millions who flood in is
>>> resisted with psychotic anger in the European parliament. Its recent
>>> plan to create “return hubs” was met with scorn. One commissioner, two
>>> weeks ago, said  that  “extraterritorial centres” had bad human rights
>>> records. Australia’s plans led to “years of arbitrary detention in
>>> inhuman conditions”. Similar plans by Israel (it’s always Israel) left
>>> asylum seekers in “legal limbo”.
>>>
>>> Fear of legal limbo — is that a reason to desecrate an entire continent?
>>> These politicians are consumed by madness and guilt. They are
>>> embarrassed by Europe’s wealth, its global standing and its relative
>>> ease of life. They feel it is their mission to tear this down by waving
>>> in thousands of people who shouldn’t be here. And those people know
>>> this, which is why thousands still tip up in Italy each month, to
>>> Giorgia Meloni’s horror. Sánchez himself has said that Spain will
>>> welcome 500,000  migrants. This will tear Europe apart.
>>>
>>> Some of these arrivals will head out of Spain and go north, attracted by
>>> our better healthcare, education system and free houses.
>>>
>>> We pay the French £662 million to stop them coming here from Calais,
>>> but, as Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, found out on Tuesday,
>>> like every EU official with a lifejacket they don’t do the job.
>>>
>>> Philp was mocked for running up and down the French coast, asking the
>>> gendarmerie why they were doing “absolutely nothing” to stop
>>> people-smugglers loading up hundreds on boats in front of them. “Our
>>> order is to let them go like that,” shrugged one. “We just have to say
>>> to them, don’t do that, it’s dangerous.”
>>>
>>> As I said: mere health and safety.
>>>
>>> The strange thing about migration is that it should be the easiest thing
>>> in the world to manage. There is nothing more simple than securing the
>>> borders of one’s country. Yet many politicians seem unable to speak on
>>> this matter. Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary — all
>>> tongue-tied.
>>>
>>> On other subjects, the prime minister won’t shut up: poetry, tea, pubs,
>>> education, bus fares, electricity, who he’s going tax, why he felt
>>> Cambridge let him down. On Europe, he couldn’t be clearer: he wants an
>>> “even closer” relationship. On immigration, though, nothing.
>>>
>>> At some point, perhaps when he sees his TikToks falling off a cliff as
>>> eyeballs race to the astonishing pictures of Moroccans marching in
>>> relentless columns across Spanish soil, he may realise that however much
>>> the EU tries to obfuscate the reality of what is happening, however much
>>> they try to tidy it away (“50,000 have gone back now”),  however much
>>> they pretend that what happened on Thursday wasn’t their Tiananmen
>>> Square — an event we can never unsee — there are only two subjects that
>>> will interest people at the next election. Money, and this.
>>>
>>> The longer Burnham prevaricates and utters soundbites, the longer Labour
>>> tries to pretend the matter is in hand when it isn’t, the more people
>>> will come across, the more our seaside towns will be destroyed, the more
>>> stories will leak out about migrants bringing over 18 members of their
>>> families and/or raping people. Is he ready for it?
>>>
>>>
>>> Camilla Long
>> 
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> >
>Where's Noah?
>
>The crisis is reverberating far beyond Spain because it challenges one 
>of the European Union’s central promises: that member states can 
>maintain open internal borders while jointly protecting the bloc’s 
>external frontier.

He's busy ignoring you.
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