But You're Not Like Them, Are You?

Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, whose parents migrated to the UK from Pakistan, is facing the suggestion from a veteran Labour peer that she is “pulling up the drawbridge once inside” when considering the plight of refugee children trapped abroad.

A veteran Labour peer? Who could this be?  

Alf Dubs, who came to the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, said the home secretary and other ministers had “kowtowed” to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK by preventing unaccompanied children from seeking refuge with UK-based family members.

Ah. I never paid much attention to the 'replacement theory' conspiraloons that aregue that that the Jews were behind mass immigration to the West, but really, how can I ignore it much longer? 

Ministers have rejected attempts by Dubs and refugee charities to make it easier for children seeking asylum from abroad to apply to join family in the UK. Mahmood has said that more safe and legal routes will be opened for refugees once order and control has been restored to the UK’s borders.

But that's clearly not fast enough a plan for social destruction for this ingrate who the UK saved from death and made a peer of the realm. At least he was a genuine refugee whose life was in danger, and not simply an economic miragnt like most of the dhingy people. Can he really not see the difference? 

In an interview with the Guardian, Dubs, who also served as MP for Battersea and as Northern Ireland minister during the Good Friday negotiations, said he was not surprised that home secretaries who were the children of migrants, such as Mahmood, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and James Cleverly, had become hardline home secretaries.“Some people believe you pull up the drawbridge once you get inside. Politics is a tough old business. Some may want to demonstrate that they’re not going to just do things because of their background,” he said.

Maybe take that advice yourself, Alf?  

Dubs, 93, was transported to the UK through the Kindertransport train, which he subsequently discovered had been organised by the Berlin-based stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton. A Labour party member for more than 50 years, Dubs accused Starmer’s government of using asylum like a “political football” while courting voters on the right of the Conservative party and Reform.

I can't think of anything more likely to open the gates to a future Reform government than insisting we can take more fake 'refugees', given what some of them have done once they got their feet under the table. I suppose you have heard of Deng Chol Majek, Ahmed Alid, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, and Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, Alf?

“I would like to see the government accept in principle that children who are abroad – asylum-seeking children who have got relatives with settled status here – should be allowed to join them. Not all claimants, but at least some of them. 

“I think we can show that we are not just kowtowing to Reform, as we have appeared to be, and we can show that we are moving in a different direction and can persuade the public to come with us.”

If you truly think that, you are more deluded than Kwier Smarmer himself, Alf.