Europeans aren’t happy about the “migrants” – plus they have other troubles
Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party’s open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic “political refugee” status.
Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite President Donald Trump’s secure border policies as new models for their own.
The majority of European immigrants now come from majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet many arrivals seem angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they fled back home.
Europe’s immigration policies will not work in a multi-ethnic democracy.
Hanson points out that Europe’s welfare states can no longer sustain benefits, their energy policies are damaging, they need to pay more for defense, and their “migrants” are not being forced to assimilate. A really toxic brew.
And yet – what will happen? Are many European countries reaching the point of active rebellion and revolt by what we might call the natives, plus those who emigrated there in order to be free of the constraints of their native third-world countries rather than to export them to Europe? Who will win, the elite internationalists or the proles?
Apparently, there’s going to be an election soon in cologne. I hope this leads to a victory for alliance for Deutschland. AfD
“German Political Parties (Ex-AfD) Sign ‘Fairness Pact’ That Prevents Criticizing Immigration
The CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, Left Party, Volt, and Die Partei signed a “fairness agreement” initiated by the “Cologne Round Table for Integration” association.
The pact commits the signatories not to blame migrants or refugees for unemployment, crime, or security concerns. It also promises an active fight against racism and antisemitism, with compliance monitored by Protestant and Catholic church representatives. Citizens are encouraged to report possible breaches of the agreement by party campaigners or candidates.
The agreement explicitly excluded the AfD from the process, with those involved insisting the right-wing party does not share their values and should not be welcomed to sign, not that there was any suggestion that the party would do so.
The deal has sparked sharp criticism from both academics and political rivals. Political scientist Werner Patzelt told Bild that the decision was “tactically stupid,” arguing that leaving migration concerns unaddressed hands the AfD an open goal.“
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-political-parties-ex-afd-sign-fairness-pact-prevents-criticizing-immigration
The “Natives” are weak. The “elites” will win. But nobody can define what winning looks like.
The Ducht government fell because of an impasse over managing immigrantion.
The new electuon falls on October 29, IIRC. And Geert Wilders’ Party is expected to gain a good lead this time after divided government.
A recent video posted ar YT covered this in historical terms, asking how the long and famously tolerant Dutch became intolerant?
The one word answer is “Islam”. Tolerance rested on subscription to basic Dutch values like tolerance. The Sharia worshipers reject this.
All these parties are facets, or faces, of a single Establishment, which is in turn the German version of the transnational Western elite Establishment.
This has become a common pattern in Europe, the establishment parties joining hands to defend the status quo. Which of course makes the general public that much angrier.
Brits waited too long.
They had a chance at the last election, but they chose poorly.
@John Guilfoyle:Brits waited too long. They had a chance at the last election…
They can have new elections any time. Their politicians aren’t any better than ours and if something really embarrassing happens the government can fall.
Right now, it appears as if about 25% of the voting public in western Europe is fed up, higher in some countries (e.g. France), lower in others (e.g. Ireland). A start, but not enough.
If the citizens do not overthrow their governments, peacefully if they can, then it’s going to be a civil war, quite possibly once started all through Europe.
Their governments sure seem to be on the eventually civil war siding with the invaders.
For some suicidal, self-destructive reason the UK government is firmly on the side of mostly inasimilable, aggressive Muslim immigrants, and against native Englishmen, and is increasing the repression of native Englishmen, constantly narrowing their freedoms.
It is no wonder that, in the UK (and actually elsewhere in the countries of Western Europe) there is talk of Civil War looming on the horizon, because in the UK–and elsewhere–governments seem to be doing everything in their power to make such a Civil War/Insurrection come into being.
One wonders how all sorts of horrific developments happen in history, countries spiraling down into what you would think was pretty easily avoidable repression and war–see, for example, Germany’s Weimar Republic–well, here is a contemporary example in the UK.
P.S. It’s as if some malignant ideology–some worldview, and set of ideas–a mental infection–captures the ruling elite, blinds them to reality, and works it’s will on them, and, in turn, on everyone they have any power over.
I can understand why the demonkrats here in the USA want open borders; the illegals get counted in the census, the results of which are then used to determine the number of seats in the US House of Representatives. In this way, the demonkrats can obtain more seats in the House than they are actually entitled to have.
But why do the European elites / leaders want open borders in Europe??
I can’t figure this out.
Do they think the illegals will vote liberal (I.e., leftist, socialist,communist) and keep these politicians in power??
Maybe someone on this blog can help me out here.
You will note that the illegals coming into the UK all arrive from France.
Why is France allowing this?
Why is the UK accepting these illegals?
I don’t get it.
Speaking of the German Afd political party; this party will not be permitted to come to power even if they win a strong majority of the popular votes.
The “establishment” there – including their media – will see to that.
Just wait and see; new “laws” or regulations will be imposed to make sure that the Afd is rendered powerless.
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On the contrary, they made the only choice they could.
Remember how the UK election system worked. In 2019 the Tories won one of their biggest victories in decades, because Farage deliberately pulled his minions out and threw his support to the Tories to get Brexit to happen. Plus they pulled in some support from normally Labour-voting regions.
When they won, the then-new-PM, Boris Johnson, even seemed to understand that, making a speech the following morning about how the Tories had merely been loaned the votes from traditional Labour voters, and they had to prove themselves worthy to keep them.
He does seem to have made an initial effort in that direction, but the globalist instincts of the Tory Party were just too strong, and Johnson got involved with a woman who pulled him politically in all the wrong directions.
In 2022, after a series of Keystone Kops events, Rishi Sunak became Tory Party leader and the new PM. A lot of the elite Tory press praised it, along with the rest of the commentariat, usually with phrases like ‘the grownups are back in charge’.
If you’re a right-wing party, beware of grownups. Sunak was a financier and a member of the elite global right, and he promptly led the Tories to their greatest electoral debacle in over a century. In 2024 Farage refused to support the Tories, and Labour won a huge majority on a small voting base.
But there was no other way.
The Tories had made it clear that they would NOT do anything about immigration. Labour was no better, but no worse. That was the story on most issues, the Tories had run out of things to be the lesser evil on. So saving a Tory majority just meant more of the status quo, while letting Labour win meant slight variations on the status quo.
The same sort of thing happened in America in 2012. GOP voters faced the stomach-churning choice of more Obama or Mitt Romney. They could turn out and put Romney in power, but if they did, they were sending the message that Romney’s liberal-Republican approach was acceptable, and then it meant that in 2016 they would face the same nausea-inducing choice: Romney or a liberal Democrat again.
So they stayed home and let Romney go down in flames, hoping the GOP would produce something better in 2016. Which it did, though they did it kicking and screaming and wailing for Jeb Bush instead.
The price of Trump was eight years of Obama. The UK faced a similar situation in 2024.
Paging Charles Martel!
Your services are sorely needed.
— JohnTyler
Partly, it’s the same reason the corporate class in the USA wants open borders, they’re importing cheap labor (both directly and because the influx keeps wage demands down among natives) and customers. Don’t underestimate this last, the low female fertility rate in the West has big business worried about who they’ll sell too. That’s also why so many uber-rich corporate types are suddenly talking up things like ‘universal basic income’, they want to import customers and, since many of them will be poor, have the taxpayer subsidize them to buy their products.
Just as here, this corporate lobby is influential on both sides of the aisle.
Labour wanted open borders, in the words of one former party official, to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’. They thought having to appeal to so many different factions would undercut the Tories politically. Which it did, but it’s also burning Labour now too.
But also, don’t overlook the importance of ideology and emotional investment in it.
The ruling professional/academic/business class in the West is alienated from their own national populations, and emotionally deeply invested in the ideal of ‘one world’. It’s a-rational, sometimes actively irrational, but it’s emotional and you can’t argue someone out of a position with logic, when they didn’t arrive at that position by logic.
A sample of how strong that ideology can be: there was a young woman who worked as a volunteer in a refugee camp in Germany a few years ago, and she was raped by one of the migrants. She didn’t immediately report it, and when she did she was asked why she waited.
She said (paraphrasing) that she was afraid nationalists would use the incident to try to close the borders.
Think about that. Ponder that. She was raped, and considered just letting it slide out of fear of the one-world ideal being damaged. That’s how strong that emotional investment can be in that class.
Along with all the pragmatic financial and political calculations, there’s a big dose of ‘we just can’t do that!’ in play in the ruling class at the idea of limiting immigration. It undercuts One World.
Enoch Powell and The Camp of the Saints foretold the future for Europe. So many signposts ignored. Such a lack of courage.
A presenter on British TV was reading a list of the extensive and costly benefits given to “asylum seekers” (an image of the list is included in the linked video below), and she got so disturbed by that list that she got up and walked off of the apparently live show, muttering something to the effect that these immigrants have a better life than she does.*
Kind of reminds me of illegal aliens here in this country–yes, some lefty States and cities have given them some benefits–but, from what I’ve seen on the news, my impression is that these illegals–many of them no strangers to phony documents, and to identity theft–have managed to game the system, and to gain access to a whole range of government benefits which were supposed to only be for U.S. citizens, and not for them–benefits like Social Security, Section 8 housing, and other “social safety net” programs.
Then, of course, there is also the tremendous strain those illegals have also put on our K-12 and other education, hospital and health care, legal/court, and penal systems.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ypfxs9iseY
@ JohnTyler > ” new “laws” or regulations will be imposed to make sure that the Afd is rendered powerless.”
They probably will do that, if possible, but they don’t really need to.
The observations in this post (h/t R2L on the Open Thread ) almost certainly apply in the European countries as well as in America, although perhaps with less emphasis on DEI, but with just the same working out of leftist principles, including the increase of malignant migration.
I don’t know if Europe has the same kind of network of ideologically-uniform guilds (national associations of whatever), but I suspect there is some equivalent training and accreditation organs in each country, possibly as part of the EU bureaucracy.
Perhaps someone here has information on that.
https://americanmind.org/memo/why-red-states-cant-govern/
The elite can’t win democratically, over the mid-term 2-10 years, so there will be less democracy.
Elites in general can’t keep winning, so some faction will win, like Xi in China, or some populist dictator.
It’s the same coin the Europeans and ours Illegal problem. Just that Europe has too many Muslims near to invade and we have Mexico and South for invaders.
It’s a shame Camp of the Saints author picked the wrong demographic.
Talked to a Brit who moved here at the age of about twenty-five. Well-educated below university level–I guess there are options between what we might think of as like high school and “university”.
He said the Brit upper middle classes and up have a large selection of “manners” including intonation in otherwise unloaded words to put the lower orders in their place(s). If that’s true to a degree reflected in politics being downstream from culture, there may well be resentment going both ways which would mean not a lot of sympathy from one to the other.
My father’s first time in France was in 1944. He spoke good college French and found that wasn’t spoken in the countryside. May be more than vocab and errant volwels separating the classes.
The Left is not having children
The Left hates its own institutions
Import people who also hate our institutions, raise the population of Blue States, Blue Cities, Blue countries and in many cases let them vote.
This stuff started in Europe but has spread to all but some of the old Communist Eastern European States.
It’s working very well in the Left’s estimation.
Hey, maybe Qatar can help out a bit here…
(…if yer searching for explanations…)
“How The European Central Bank Engineered The French Debt-Crisis… And The Next”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-european-central-bank-engineered-french-debt-crisis-and-next
Andrea Widburg’s turn:
“The decline and fall of the modern German Empire”—
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/the_decline_and_fall_of_the_modern_german_empire.html
H/T Powerline blog.
+ Bonus!
Is America a great country, or…WTF??
“Ilhan Omar Said It’s ‘Categorically False’ To Call Her a Millionaire. Her Net Worth Just Reached Up to $30 Million, an Increase of at Least 3,500 Percent in One Year.”—
https://tinyurl.com/4duue8u8
There’s no way out for the UK other than using tactics from the Irish “troubles” last century. And if trad Englishmen won’t do it then the English as a culture will be gone. My kids will live to see it.
The answer is Galt’s Gulch. But, how to find it?
Richard Aubrey @7:03 a.m.: I have no evidence, but I imagine the British elites’ indifference to the rape gang scandal was in part because the girls being victimized were from lower-class backgrounds.
I see the same thing in leftist leaders here not getting too upset about the carnage in our big cities. Victims are overwhelmingly black and lacking education.