Re: Ceuta is what happens when you’re not serio us abo ut migration

On 8/1/2026 4:44 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> 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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