Pushing Back the Tide

Yet more hundreds of British jobs have been saved in the Mediterranean. Although the swarming hordes continue to be attracted by Jeremy C Hunt's NHS, by the pampering attentions of the Department for Workfare and Privation and by the prospect of the mad mullah Sadiq Khan taking over as mayor of London, the barnstorming small-business gumption of northern Africa's transportation entrepreneurs continues to ensure that one local amenity which isn't in short supply is the salutary object lesson of seeing one's fellow marauders turned into fish food. Nevertheless, the whole business is still very inconvenient for Europe, where rich white people and their dupes are becoming quite annoyed at the persistent refusal of war-torn and peckish wogs to recognise our humanitarian push-back against their pull factors. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has called for "increased regular pathways for admission of refugees and asylum seekers" and for "additional possibilities for resettlement and humanitarian admission, family reunification, private sponsorship, and humanitarian and refugee student and work visas" - for everything, in fact, except the obvious solutions of concentration camps and wog-bombing.