Much Ado about the Painted Lady’s EU Passport

Yogesh Patel Monday 06th June 2016 06:09 EDT
 

The painted lady never needed the passport before and will not need it in future if Britain leaves EU. She will keep invading. Are you confused?

Let me help you with it. Herded humans act like cattle with the instinct of following the beast in the front. Politicians work at creating such herds. Which way you vote in the EU referendum will depend on whether you are herded into believing in principles of freedom, or manipulations of figures, or surrender to the fear of apocalypse. In their article in the Daily Telegraph, David Nussbaum, the chief executive of WWF-UK, and Mike Clarke, the chief executive of the RSPB, have taken the whole argument of the EU referendum to a new level of silliness of orchestrated scaremongering, with the duo saying that the butterflies, bees and birds are at risk if Britain leaves EU. 

Who else is left out I ask? 

As if the butterflies, bees and birds care, and have ever. The grotesque thing here is to suggest that after leaving EU we will cease to care for our environment and other human beings. Utter nonsensical level the EU inners have arched to is astounding and shockingly revealing of strange human behaviour! Our political leaders in power have stooped further low below the dignity of humanity, rationale and intellect. At the heart of it is a seed of disrespect for the voters. Common sense and reasoning have been bowled out and consigned to the pavilion with no runs. 

The painted Lady is a beautiful butterfly that migrates to Britain from the northern African countries like Sudan, Libya and Egypt. Its migration is such a phenomenal act of migration that it shames the great Monarch butterflies, which migrate back and forth from the USA to Canada over about four generations. The painted lady goes through about seven generations at least, flies average 30 miles per hour and covers at least 100 miles a day. It makes a journey of thousand miles with each generation living only about four weeks. It travels in large numbers of a swarm, low to about six feet, hitting even cars, under the radar, and comes via Europe to the UK. Talk about the urge to migrate to Britain via Europe! 

It is fine as long as they feed on our English weeds we do not want in our own gardens, both physically and metaphorically: And that they do not create no-go suburbs. The human migrants in comparison are a completely different proposition. As they are not butterflies, you have to decide the size of swarm you are going to allow in Britain, a small island. Who controls this invasion? Once in Europe, with open borders, the painted lady of the human kind will slip into Britain as its final destination. Does not matter how many generations, or the time it takes. Can you trust self-preserving politicians to do a right thing? David Cameron came back with such Trojan horse promises that he completely stopped talking about his great negotiation with the EU! 

Here is why David Cameron will win. Talking to my son, he said in principle he agreed with the Brexit, but to protect his short-term interest, he will vote to stay in. David Cameron is relying on everyone making such short-sighted decision. My driving instructor, however, has taught me differently, telling me always to look ahead and anticipate.

The picture of David Cameron and Sadiq Khan together on one platform does not serve each one well. A politician, who told us only five weeks ago not to trust the other, feeding the Islamophobia, conveniently becomes a buddy of his victim! How can you trust or believe the words or figures from inconsistent politicians? They both have fed into voters’ scepticism about politicians. Those who question the rise of Trump have an answer in this for his rise. People are not picking him up for his lack of sainthood, they are voting to send the message against sleaze and surreptitiousness hidden behind the posturing of diplomacy. Trump presents himself to us with all his flaws and arrogance with a new kind of crude political language.

We are witnessing the ugliest campaign by any leader of the Western world. Unfortunately, David Cameron is blinded by his winner-takes-all instinct. You may not agree with Corbyn, but no one is able to accuse him of sleaze and convenient switching which comes naturally to politicians. 

I see Socrates still drinking his cup of poison every day to keep the democracy alive. That is we, the voters.


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