"A lot has been said about the riots and their causes. But let me get one thing straight: in the end, THE ONLY CAUSE OF A CRIME IS A CRIMINAL. Whatever their circumstances, EVERYBODY GETS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG… The disorder this summer wasn’t about poverty or politics. IT WAS ABOUT GREED AND CRIMINALITY, FUELLED BY A CULTURE OF IRRESPONSIBILITY AND ENTITLEMENT…Fine words, Theresa. Very fine words. Thing is, you’ve been a big shot Tory for a long time now, and you Tories didn’t appear to 'trust' or 'care' all that much when they were reducing British industry to a pale shadow of what it once was, did you? When you were exporting our jobs and devasting working-class communities where was the trust and care?
And now we know more about the culprits. THREE QUARTERS ALREADY HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD. A QUARTER HAD COMMITTED MORE THAN TEN CRIMINAL OFFENCES BEFORE. IN LONDON, A FIFTH WERE KNOWN MEMBERS OF GANGS…
GANG VIOLENCE IS ENDEMIC IN MANY OF OUR CITIES. ACROSS THE COUNTRY GANG MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED WITH THE USE AND SUPPLY OF DRUGS, FIREARMS AND KNIVES.
It’s a deep-rooted problem bound up with FAMILY BREAKDOWN, POOR SCHOOLING and intergenerational worklessness, AS WELL AS POLICING AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM…
By the end of the month I will publish the Government’s new gangs strategy… That strategy will need to address the 120,000 PROBLEM FAMILIES WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SO MUCH CRIME, DISORDER AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR ACROSS THE COUNTRY. It will need to tackle drug abuse and addiction. And it will need to deal with THE PREVALENCE OF KNIVES AND GUNS IN OUR TOWNS AND CITIES...
There can be no sense of community without clear rules and strong enforcement. No prosperity without stability. No liberty without security… WHEN A NEIGHBOURHOOD IS UNDER SIEGE BY YOBS COMMITTING REGULAR ACTS OF CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THERE CAN BE NO COMMUNITY. WHEN WE SEE RIOTS ON OUR STREETS, HUNDREDS OF SMALL BUSINESSES ARE FORCED TO CLOSE. WHEN A TERRORIST CANNOT BE DEPORTED ON HUMAN RIGHTS GROUNDS, ALL OUR RIGHTS ARE THREATENED.
And as Conservatives, we understand too the need to reduce and control immigration... WE KNOW WHAT DAMAGE UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION CAN DO. TO OUR SOCIETY, as communities struggle to cope with rapid change. TO OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, as our housing stock and transport system become overloaded. And TO OUR PUBLIC SERVICES, as schools and hospitals have to cope with a sudden increase in demand.
Yet THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT LABOUR LET HAPPEN… Under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, net migration to Britain was never any higher than the tens of thousands. But UNDER TONY BLAIR AND GORDON BROWN, NET MIGRATION TO BRITAIN WAS IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. In total, NET MIGRATION TO BRITAIN UNDER LABOUR WAS 2.2 MILLION – MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE SIZE OF MANCHESTER...
Cutting immigration is not as simple as turning off a tap – it’s a complex and litigious system – and SO IT WILL TAKE TIME. But we’re taking action on every route to the UK – and the numbers will soon start to come down.
UNDER LABOUR, ECONOMIC MIGRATION WAS SO OUT OF CONTROL THAT ALMOST A THIRD OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME HERE AS HIGHLY-SKILLED WORKERS DID UNSKILLED JOBS. So we’ve cut out that abuse and we’ve capped economic migration FROM OUTSIDE THE EU.
UNDER LABOUR, THE STUDENT VISA SYSTEM WAS SO BADLY ABUSED THAT IT BECAME THE MAIN WAY TO GET TO BRITAIN. So we’re closing down bogus colleges, regulating the remainder, restricting the right to work here and bring dependants, and making sure that all but the very best go home at the end of their studies.
UNDER LABOUR, TEMPORARY IMMIGRATION LED TO AN AUTOMATIC RIGHT TO SETTLE HERE. So we’re breaking that link, making sure that immigrants who come here to work go home at the end of their visa…
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act. THE VIOLENT DRUG DEALER WHO CANNOT BE SENT HOME BECAUSE HIS DAUGHTER, FOR WHOM HE PAYS NO MAINTENANCE, LIVES HERE. THE ROBBER WHO CANNOT BE REMOVED BECAUSE HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND. THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO CANNOT BE DEPORTED BECAUSE – AND I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP – HE HAD A PET CAT. This is why I remain of the view that THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT NEEDS TO GO… We will change the immigration rules to ensure that the misinterpretation of Article Eight of the ECHR, the right to a family life, no longer prevents the deportation of people who shouldn’t be here...
OUR COURTS, THE PROBLEM LIES MAINLY IN BRITISH COURTS, INTERPRET THE RIGHT TO A FAMILY LIFE AS AN ALMOST ABSOLUTE RIGHT. Let me read to you... what Article Eight says: ‘Article 8.2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law AND IS NECESSARY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY IN THE INTERESTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY, PUBLIC SAFETY OR THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF THE COUNTRY, FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISORDER OR CRIME, FOR THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH OR MORALS, OR FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF OTHERS.’
THE RIGHT TO A FAMILY LIFE IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT, and it must not be used to drive a coach and horses through our immigration system. THE MEANING OF ARTICLE EIGHT SHOULD NO LONGER BE PERVERTED…
You know, the Labour Party still claim they had immigration under control… They still don’t get it. We know now that THEY DENOUNCED ANYBODY WORRIED ABOUT IMMIGRATION AS A BIGOT. And they say we can’t trust the public to vote for police and crime commissioners, because they might elect extremists. THEY HAVE TOTAL CONTEMPT FOR WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK.
When government fails to protect the public from crime and when it fails to control immigration, it might not bother the left-wing elites, because THEY’RE NOT THE ONES WHO PAY THE PRICE. But the people who do are the very people I’m in politics to serve, the men and women who work hard for a living, make sacrifices for their family, and care about their community. It should be our moral mission to help working people build a better future for themselves and their families…
WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO REWARD THOSE WHO DO THE RIGHT THING… WE SHOULD PUNISH THOSE WHO DO THE WRONG THING. That’s why WE MUST TRUST THE PEOPLE... And it’s why WE MUST RESPECT THE PEOPLE, BY DOING WHAT THEY WANT and getting to grips with immigration.”
And the 'tens of thousands' Thatcher and Major let in every year, that’s still a hell of a lot of unwanted foreigners bearing down, for the most part, upon those already disheartened working-class communities, don't you think?
And, though a few pips squeaked when New Labour was gleefully ‘rubbing the right’s nose in diversity’, with their deeply treacherous importation of the alien millions, I don’t remember any Tory ever laying it on the line as you have here.
And politicians lie, don’t they? As Ted Koppel once famously said, ‘they lie all the time.’ Oh yes, we are aware that dishonesty is routine at the top level. So, nowadays, most of us expect to be deceived by people in your position.
This isn’t cynicism by the way, this is how it is. This is what bitter experience has taught us. Our politicians cannot be trusted to do the right thing by us. They can be trusted to do the right thing by the Murdochs, the EU, the greedy bankers and the globalists but by the British people? Never. The political class sold us down the river and it has a long way to go before the majority puts any trust at all in its fine words.
Some of us will be watching you very closely from now on, Theresa. If your present oratory matches your future actions we will aplaud you heartily. If they do not you will be roundly condemned. We will ensure that the British people are made aware that Theresa May is one of the very many who promised much but, in the end, delivered nothing.
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