Immigration: destroying European culture
By Richard North - December 24, 2023
Just two weeks ago, Mateusz Morawiecki was deposed as Polish prime minister after a vote of confidence in the Sejm (parliament), bringing to an end his eight years of office.
The demise of his controversial national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party was a predicted outcome in the October general election.
Although the PiS polled the largest number of votes, it was defeated by the magic of proportional voting, favouring the pro-EU liberal consensus of Donald Tusk’s “Civic Coalition”, bolstered by the votes of the centre-right “Third Way” and leftist “Lewica”. These three parties collectively took just over 50 percent of the vote, compared with the 36.1 percent of the PiS – still the largest party.
Tusk, former president of the European Council, wasted no time in shutting down Poland’s public television news channel, closing down the state-run TVP Info’s 24-hour news programming, while the channel was still on-air.
Defending his action, Tusk claimed that the broadcaster had helped spread lies about him and his party. It had served as a tool of PiS propaganda, peddling “intolerant, xenophobic and misogynistic rhetoric”, accusing him of being a “foreign stooge” who would destroy the country.
Another rapid move made by Tusk was to buy into the EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact which, amongst other things, introduces a “solidarity mechanism” which aims to share the burden of processing asylum applications between border states and the rest of the EU member states.
Hitherto, Poland and Hungary had stood firm in opposing the “reform” but, for the moment, Tusk’s intervention has potentially opened his country’s borders to a flood of illegal immigrants who have crossed the Mediterranean by boat and ended up in Greece, Italy and Spain.
Although Tusk has swept into office, this move is not popular with the electorate. A poll carried out by the National Electoral Commission, for instance, asked: “Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?”
Not surprisingly, given the framing of the question, only 1.4 percent voted “yes”, but there was also a feeling that the Polish had “done their bit” accepting 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine. However, it seems that the EU’s promise to release €111 billion of frozen funds to the Tusk “consensus” turned the tide.
However, all these recent events have not silenced Morawiecki who has been airing his views on migration and, in an extraordinary piece, has been reported in the Telegraph under headline: “Muslim migrants are destroying European culture, says Poland’s ex-PM”.
The sub-heading has Morawiecki opposing the EU’s latest migration pact and declaring that he wants to “preserve” his country’s culture, a sentiment expressed so boldly and clearly that one can’t imagine that it could have been published even a few months ago.
Even more remarkably, the Telegraph kept its own comments section open, something it rarely does when the subject touches in immigration and racial issues – the editors exhibiting a consistent strain of moral cowardice when in avoiding public discussion on such issues.
In this case though, the cowardice prevailed: when the comments topped 500, mostly supporting Morawiecki, the entire thread was not only closed down – it was “disappeared”.
Nevertheless, the message of the piece was clear enough, telling us that Poland’s former prime minister had warned that European culture was being “destroyed” by Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East.
“We were very open to war refugees from Ukraine when the need was there”, adding, “We have opened our hearts and our gates for all refugees”. But, he went on, “this is very much different from the huge [amounts of] Muslim migrants from the Middle East who are coming to Germany and France and other countries and who want to change the culture of those countries, those nations”.
With a refreshing directness, he declared; “I am clearly opposed to such attempts”, stating that while he admired French, Spanish and British cultures, he also admired his Polish culture, saying: “I want to preserve it, I want to nurture it”. He did not want it “to be destroyed by the Muslim migrants coming from the Middle East or from Africa”.
In a statement that would resonate with many English people, he pointed out that Ukrainian refugees were “culturally very similar to Poles” and had behaved “very well” since arriving. Thus, where there was cultural similarity, there had been relatively few problems dealing with the influx, or the estimated million who had chosen to reside in Poland.
By contrast, the more than 230,000 first-time asylum applicants to Europe from the Middle East and Africa in 2022 are causing endless problems, on top of which the European Commission estimates that one million non-EU citizens illegally entered the bloc last year.
Morawiecki has no time for the EU’s migration and asylum pact and describes illegal migration as a long-term “threat” to European civilisation. On that basis – essentially speaking for the majority of his countrymen – he said: “We do not agree on any form of compulsory distribution of migrants across member states. We do not agree to compulsory distribution of migrants into Poland specifically, of course, or paying for not accepting those migrants”.
Reiterating his point, he is cited by the Telegraph as saying: “This is one of the biggest threats going forward for the European Union”. He thinks that accepting one or two million illegal migrants “can be the beginning of a huge wave that can pose a very serious threat to the whole of the European Union, and the stability of the European Union, and for the security of the European Union”.
The man is, or course, perfectly correct, and with 3,801,186 Muslims officially living in England (according to the 2021 census) – up by over a million since the previous census, one only has to review the scenes in Oxford Street yesterday to see the results of years of unconstrained immigration gone wrong.
Christmas shopping in Oxford Street and looking at the Christmas decorations in Regent Street, finishing off with a visit to Trafalgar Square to see the Christmas tree – donated each year by a grateful Norwegian government – is something of an English tradition.
I remember being taken “up-town” by my parents many times when I was a young boy, and even as an adult if I was in London over the period, I would make a point of looking in on the area.
But, on the last Saturday before Christmas – and the only opportunity for many families to see the sights – it meant nothing to a bunch or third-world primates to disrupt this special day, the marchers walking slowly down Oxford Street holding placards declaring “no shopping while bombs are dropping”, to genocidal chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.
Needless to say, the Metropolitan Police – in a city with a Muslim mayor that is now down to a population of 36.8 percent white British, with 40.6 percent of residents born overseas – did absolutely nothing to constrain the march or prevent the genocidal chanting. Nor, on past form, will they take any action to track down the offenders.
The greatest insult to the indigenous peoples, though, is the years of gaslighting which has sought (successfully with the midwit tendency) to convince us that this destructive multi-culturalism is a good thing.
The political process is so compromised that Muslim voters make up 10 percent or more of the voters in 83 (13 percent) of constituencies and have the potential to influence the course of the next general election.
Tragically, where the “uniparty” here is locked into a Tusk-like consensus, we will never get a politician from any of the main parties to duplicate Morawiecki’s refreshing candour – although a Conservative leader who said as much would probably have his party sweep the board at the general.
And yet, while the lies from Sunak and his cronies proliferate – while he looks for party advantage, nothing will be done about immigration – legal or legal – while the UK becomes the garbage pit for the scum of the earth.
