As Jim Goad once wrote, when the wealthy spruikers of open borders hand over the keys to their walled compounds, then we’ll talk. They never do, of course. But it’s not just the ultra-rich who refuse to live by their ‘refugees welcome’ rhetoric.
When Ron DeSantis airlifted a plane load of Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard, the exclusive enclave home to the Obamas, the solidly blue residents immediately responded. Not with open arms and doors, but with a get-out-of-town order and vocal complaints.
It’s the same everywhere tilty-headed middle-class white ‘progressives’ are asked to live up to their high-falutin’ rhetoric. Take Greens ground zero, the gentrified Melbourne inner suburb of Fitzroy, where man-bunned vegans cycle from their million-dollar terrace cottages to the local fair-trade organic grocer. Fitzroy is also bordered by ’60s-era Housing Commission towers, home to thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants. Consequently, Fitzroy Primary School has the highest enrolment of African and Muslim students in Melbourne, but the wealthy Whites living just a few streets away don’t send their precious progeny there. Hell, no: they bus (if Mummy’s hulking SUV can be classed as a bus) their lily-white offspring to exclusive schools many suburbs away.
In an hilarious stunt, a TV comedian knocked on the door of a Fitzroy home where a sign proclaimed that it ‘always was, always will be, Aboriginal land’, with a few of the local Aboriginal community in tow. Could some Aborigines stay on this ‘Aboriginal land’ for just a couple of nights? No, they got the door shut in their faces.
Meanwhile, over in England, there’s UK Greens deputy leader, Rachel Millward.
Now, she seems like a completely normal person from Middle England. She is married. She’s got two children. She lives in Sussex and she is a counselor for an area in Sussex and she is a normal middleclass modern progressive person. And so as the deputy leader of the Green Party in England and Wales and a Green counselor, she naturally lives in a nearly entirely white area of the country. 94 per cent white is the place she lives. And as you can see from the density of the housing, well quite rural it looks. So she’s living in heaven. Absolute heaven. And good for her. This is the best kind of place you could possibly live in my opinion.
Especially because there’s none of those people there. You know the ones we mean: the ones Millward wants to welcome to England with open arms… just not to her corner of England.
You can afford all of your luxury beliefs because fundamentally you don’t have to live by them. So when you’re at the Green Party conference, you can say bold things like this: “There will be a day when we sit our grandchildren on our knees and we tell them first they came for the immigrants. So we hung out flags from all the nations and we said refugees are welcome here.”
Except that ‘here’ is not her ‘here’: it’s somebody, anybody else’s.
Because Millward is being asked to live up to her ideals. The Starmer government, having failed miserably to stop the illegal immigrant boats crossing the Channel, is running out of hotels in the towns and cities to keep them in. To that end, the government is proposing to repurpose a disused army barracks as asylum seeker accommodation. That barracks being Crowbar Army Camp, smack in Millward’s idyllic Sussex home.
And, boy, is she mad about it.
And so she was like, ‘Well, hang on a second, British government, I don’t want you sending 600 asylum seekers to Crowbar Army Camp as a temporary location because this is causing major problems. We are worried about the safety of both asylum seekers and local communities.’
Why would you be worried about the safety of the local community? What possible danger is there from asylum seekers being placed in your innocent and naive area of Middle England? What possible objection could you have?
Her objection is specifically the ‘risk’ of having 600 foreign men in her Little England.
Maybe you can enlighten us as to what the risks of 600 unvetted foreign men just being allowed to just roam around in your local area. What possible risks that entails?
Because I mean, no one seems to be able to explain from the Green Party because I hear that they’re just doctors, nurses, lawyers, brain surgeons, nuclear technicians, rocket scientists, and everything else that apparently Britain needs.
It’s not ‘safe for the community’, Millward says. Why ever not?
What are you being so racist about, Rachel? There’s nothing wrong with refugees. They are just here to help us, and it’s our duty to help them. Then I don’t know what this danger and safety that you’re concerned about. And I thought that refugees were welcome here […]
Maybe the people of Sussex could open their hearts and open their houses, open their lives.
And maybe pigs could fly.
