When the Rochdale sex grooming gang had their citizenship revoked after 40 years of being British and got deported back to Pakistan, I was able to say all the things which if white people had said it, they would have been called racist, but I know my readers also agree with me on:
“Deported. British nationality revoked. Sent back to where they came from. You were always a guest. You didnt know it. British justice. My poor heart bleads....for the children they abused. Good decision. The European Convention on Human Rights wont save them. The fact they lived here for 40 years wont save them. Bye bye paedo. Loud and clear message.”
This is silently powerful not like Trump’s failed ‘Muslim ban’ which laughingly does not include those from the country which housed and homed Osama Bin Laden – the man who kicked off the post 9/11 terror events anyway. This British policy that no matter how long you have been in Britain, if you previously held another nationality then you can be deported.
There will be no crying that your family life is broken. Immigrants who so often want to take advantage of lax liberal policies of the host country, who are not grateful, have their message. It will be no reply to say ‘but others do it, why should I not have the same equal protection of the law’? You’ve been taking advantage of the law for too long. We have proven our liberal credentials. We do not need to be stupid to prove them any further.
And I am not being nationalist, other than in favour of Britain. I am not being nationalist because India and Pakistan have a long-standing animosity. I am being pro-British nationalist. Oh and while we are at it, it will not be any excuse to say that ‘its cultural’ we can have many wives, our own legal system, and beat our wives.
When your culture attacks the way of life and values in which we believe, our values in this country come first. And those values of tolerance do not include a tolerance for violence to girls and women. We will not tolerate that.
How long before the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof moves from the country, to the individual? We will stop presuming you’re wearing a bourka is not a political statement about your rejection of British values. I see a time where we will assume if you decide to clothe from head to toe in black it is because you are claiming to be superior, rejecting liberalism. It is a political piece of clothing.
And we will not consider that an unreasonable thing to assume with the burden on the wearer to prove we are wrong. Our liberties have to embraced, not just tolerated. We are not here as guests of the bourka-wearer, but as guests of Her Majesty the Queen. And God save the Queen!
