The Queen reads from the pixie’s script

Today the Monarch read out probably the densest but by no means most radical Queen’s Speech for years.  The programme stretches to forty-five bills and a host of somewhat predictably worthy international intentions.

The government will now feel entitled to make a great song and dance about New Labour vigour in a third term while Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition tries to find something, amid all its leadership woes, to which it really objects.

Here are a few objectionable high-lights that might possibly help:-

The Identity Card Bill fundamentally reduces the historic freedoms of Englishmen and invites the agents of the state to illegally harrass and if at all possible arrest whosoever their masters dislike. 

“Papers please” is a demand that has not been heard in these islands since WW2.  Perhaps we should not be surprised that a government led by a control freak should be so keen to extend its control over us now, in 2005.  But you would think someone would have the wit to ask why, in the years since 9/11, there has been next to no effort to secure and protect our borders.  Of course, no one will.

Technologically ID cards have all the makings of a white elephant.  Government departments are proven incompetents in the field of technology and cost-control.  Whatever the estimate for this scheme now, it will wind up late, probably inoperable and several times over-budget.  And it will achieve nothing.  International terrorists are far too motivated to be put off by a little thing like an ID card.  If and when they return here they will simply take greater care to bury themselves deeper than ever in among Moslem communities, and not be seen by potential informers or the police.

The Immigration & Asylum Bill will introduce a points system for economic migrants, favouring those with such sacred skills as nursing and plumbing.  There are two blatent falsehoods wrapped up in this.

First, there is the automatic assumption that we can carry ever more immigrants - for no better reason than anti-racist liberals are in power and the CBI likes cheap labour.  The only respectable academic evidence on this subject comes from MigrationWatch.  That wonderful organisation is so hated by former Immigration Minister and now, happily, former MP, Barbara Roche, that this lady (who is non-English) has been at the forefront of moves to establish a contrary pro-immigation group.  That doesn’t have a hope in hell of succeeding because all the decent demographic experts in this country are on the restrictionist side!  The restrictionists, of course, must proceed with caution so as to continue to be able to speak to government and MP’s.  The rest of us, on the other hand, should be vigorously debating how to reduce the astonishing numbers of immigrants to have settled in our cities and towns since 1948 or earlier.  This is an idea that really needs to be injected into public discourse now, not tomorrow or the next day.

Second, if we cannot persuade our own people to be nurses and plumbers we need to look at why and address it.  If, for example, NHS hospitals are too stressful to work in we should fully privatise the system forthwith and allow a market to operate.  Bringing in aliens to do vacant jobs because the existing system is felt by indigenes to be degrading should cause us to change the system, not the racial mix of the country.  Aliens are not a temporary fix.  Not that the Party in power would agree with that.  It has no love for the native people of this country.  The Party in opposition, meanwhile, is far too afraid of the electorate to speak a genuine Conservative truth about a Stalinist health system.

The Violent Crime Bill will fail to target the most concentrated source of the violent crimes in question.  Everybody understands who that source is.  But no one will risk speaking of them except in code words such as “gun crime” and “Operation Trident”.

The Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill is a sop to Moslem opinion in the aftermath of security service and police activities since 9/11.  In other words, a law is being passed against the English, essentially, because Moslems hijacked aircraft in America and flew them into buildings there.

The Electoral Administration Bill will address electoral fraud offences brought into being solely because this government has pushed ahead, against advice, with postal voting.  It did so because it calculated that postal voting would increase turn-out amongst its own supporters, particular among the young and those minorities who find drawing a cross on a postal booth altogether too challenging.  In this the goverment was quite correct.  Turn-out for the election increased by a couple of per cent.  Well worth creating a new class of criminal, don’tcha know.

The Equality Bill will gather up all those disparate petty fiefdoms currently running the war against the natives, and make one super, new, giant petty fiefdom to do the same thing.  But lots more of it, of course.

This, actually, will be an interesting test of Conservative Party thinking.  Will they or will they not call for the total ending of identity politics and culture war in Britain?  Granted, they said nothing like that in their election material. But the black and Moslem vote, you know ... obvious Tory territory.  However, the next humilitation ... sorry, election is four years away.  Plenty of time to risk a little truth-speaking.

Bet they won’t risk it, though.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 05:47 PM in British Politics
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