I cannot improve on the piece written by the excellent Peter Hitchens about our abandoning border controls and so here it is:"It may seem strange to you that this extraordinary abandonment of a simple, effective means of hampering the movements of terrorists and criminals should have taken place just when we are being threatened with identity cards and snooped on by the most advanced system of privacy-breaching surveillance ever to exist outside science fiction. It seems strange to me, too.
But the European Union, now the true government of the territories formerly known as Britain, is utterly dedicated to what it calls 'free movement'. This, in fact, means unfettered immigration, a vast human reservoir of cheap, exploitable labour ready to rush wherever it is needed, to keep wages low, regardless of the effects this may have on human happiness, on settled communities or on those who are sent trudging hither and thither from sweatshop to fruit farm, living in overcrowded slums and separated from their homes and families."
QUITE!
