The establishment right and immigration
Antimulticulture
http://www.bnp.org.uk/columnists/joepr2.php?joeId=16
Joe Priestley
7th April 2006
Sir Max Hastings - clapped-out Tory
I've read a couple of Max Hastings' books, Victory in Europe (1992)
and Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-5 (2004), and they were
interesting enough reads, but he lacks the 'unputdownableness' of such
writers as David Irving and Antony Beevor. Hastings is a journalist turned
historian. He comes over as a bit of a stuffed shirt, or maybe my impression
of him is coloured by his pompous and self-satisfied air, and his
over-the-top plummy accent that betrays a too-privileged background.
Sir Max Hastings is an establishment man through and through.
Privately educated at Charterhouse School followed by Oxford University and
a career in the media, he made his name on the back of the Parachute
Regiment in the 1982 Falklands war where he became the first man with the
task force to enter Port Stanley. For this he received a couple of
journalism awards, and the rest, as they say, is history.
After ten years as Editor and then Editor in chief of the Daily
Telegraph, in 1996 he edited the Evening Standard until his retirement in
2001. He was knighted in 2002. He currently subsidises his pension with
occasional comment articles for the Daily Telegraph and more frequently for
the Daily Mail.
Class warrior
Hastings' conceit comes over in almost every article he writes,
particularly those that appear in the Mail. You see Hastings is like the
rest of the establishment 'right', they both want their cake and eat it
too - and nowhere is this better illustrated than in the issue of
immigration. The title of his latest comment page piece (Daily Mail
30/03/06) says it all: 'Immigration - the left perceives a prospect of
destroying for ever a traditional middle class white Britain which they hate
and despise.'
That's Hastings and the Mail through and through - they only ever half
argue the case. It's not that the left hates traditional middle class white
Britain, or even that it hates traditional Britain; it's that it hates
traditional white Britain because it stands in the way of the multiracial
utopia. Hastings and the Mail are so utterly gutless (or is it deceitful?)
that rather than speaking the truth about immigration and race and their
impact on the British people they prefer to hide behind the outmoded concept
of class struggle. As if it's a matter of left and right! If he'd shown as
little nous during the Falklands conflict Max Hastings would be stumbling
around Goose Green still, dressed in fatigues and wondering where the hell
everyone had gone.
The evidence tells us that the establishment despises traditional
white working class Britain even more than it does its middle class
equivalent - politicians invariably choose white middle class neighbourhoods
to set up home rather than the working class areas that their immigration
policies have devastated. Yet Hastings bleats on about the middle class
plight and how the left aims to do it down.
You see, Hastings and the Mail have nothing but contempt for the
British working class, "Few people doubt that we need some immigration, not
least to do jobs the British no longer care for."
What Hastings means is that British working class people won't do what
immigrants will do for the price immigrants are prepared to do it - or
rather what the likes of Hastings are prepared to pay. He doesn't want a
working class, he wants a serf class, and whether it consists of white
British people or sub-Saharan Africans is of no concern to him and his ilk.
The great historian is so transfixed by the events of 20th century Europe
that he's unable to work out what effect the destruction of the 'white
working class' by mass third world immigration will have on his 'white
middle class'. So much for this great conservative intellect.
For and against
It's the same old establishment story - a barrel of contradictions.
You can't make any sense of it. Hastings argues both for immigration and
against it. He is for it to maintain his place in the establishment, and
he's
against it to maintain his conservative credentials. What dithering
cowardice.
"Many menial and manual jobs are being done by immigrants because no
amount of money will induce us to do them." Get that, "no amount of money" -
have you ever read anything so damned stupid in all of your life? And in any
case, immigrants don't do useful 'menial and manual' jobs - how often do you
see them emptying the bins or sweeping the streets.
"Without foreign nurses, the NHS would grind to a halt, because our
own people do not want to care for the sick and old." Is this man a thinker
or a parrot? Aren't you just sick of hearing this worn out pro-immigration
mantra? It's about time the Lib, Lab, and Con set got themselves a new CD.
No job vacancy will remain unfilled if the money is right; it's odd
isn't it that people like Hastings who worship at the altar of market forces
can't grasp this simple fact. And yet no doubt he'd be quick to quote the
workings of the market place to justify the vast sums the Telegraph and Mail
pay him.
His thinking about the NHS is just as shallow. Thousands of trained
white British nurses are unable to find work because so many of NHS jobs
have been filled by foreign nurses. He cites no evidence to back up his
argument that we don't want to care for our own sick and elderly - but
whatever it is, doesn't the surplus of trained nurses over job vacancies
rubbish it?
I'm just waiting for someone to argue that because such a high
proportion of immigrants are unemployed we need immigrants to do the jobs
immigrants won't do. Or that we need immigrant nurses because immigrants
place a disproportionate demand on our health service and they need to be
treated by people of their own culture and ethnicity - all in the cause of
equality you know. Remember you read it here first.
What Hastings wants
Immigrants tend to vote Labour and that's what irks Hastings and the
Mail. If they voted Tory you can bet your last penny the Tories would be
calling for open borders, with the only proviso that the immigrant hoards
should be compelled to stay away from leafy middle class suburbs.
But as it is, the 'right' tells us we don't need millions of (Labour
voting) immigrants, but that we do need some, ".Polish decorators, Nigerian
nurses and parking wardens, Pakistani office cleaners, because without these
newcomers our public services and some of our private ones would grind to a
halt," bleats Hastings.
The man is a fool. If we're short of decorators, which I doubt, then
will not market forces remedy the situation? When demand outstrips supply
price increases and attracts newcomers to the market which equalises demand
with supply and reduces prices - that's how the market works so we're told.
But just like the rest of the establishment, 'left' and 'right', Hastings
prefers the short term fix and to hell with the future.
Why import Nigerian nurses when so many of our own nurses are
unemployed? To turn Hastings' idiotic argument around, what makes Nigerian
nurses prefer to look after our sick and elderly rather than look after
their own? Pay and conditions Mr Hastings, pay and conditions. Improve our
nurses' pay and conditions and any shortage in supply that exists will
evaporate as people choose nursing over other careers. The argument applies
to traffic wardens - it's simple really, but apparently it's too complicated
for Tories to comprehend. Or is it that it's all too easy for them to
understand and that what they are really concerned about is cheap immigrant
labour as an alternative to paying white British people what the job is
worth?
And as for importing Pakistanis so they can clean our offices; the
unemployment rate for Pakistanis in Britain is about 30%, need I say more?
The only difference between the establishment right and the
establishment left is the pace of immigration that they favour. The left
want to rush it along so that they can retain power forever (or so they fool
themselves), whereas the right favours a more gradual approach - just high
enough to provide a ready source of cheap labour and thus keep wages down.
In the long run both amount to the same thing, the destruction of British
culture and the British people.
Is this what Sir Max Hastings wants, or is it that he's too cowardly
to face reality because if he did he just might have to change tack - and
that wouldn't do his reputation any good, would it?
--
Jim
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