This from the BBC today:

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that Europe's migration crisis is putting the EU at grave risk.

1. Mr Valls told the BBC Europe could not take all the refugees fleeing what he called terrible wars in Iraq or Syria.
"Otherwise," he said, "our societies will be totally destabilised."

2. Mr Valls also said that France would seek to keep its current state of emergency until a "total and global war" against so-called Islamic State (IS) was over.
The measures were introduced after the IS-led Paris attacks on 13 November and then extended for three months.

3. Mr Valls was speaking to Lyse Doucet, the BBC's chief international correspondent, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Europe, he said, needed to take urgent action to control its external borders.
"If Europe is not capable of protecting its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that will be questioned."

4. He added: "We know clearly that after the Cologne incidents that with the continuous flow, not only to Germany but the countries of Northern Europe, Austria, the Balkans are confronted with this influx, that's why we need to find practical solutions for our borders."
Mr Valls was referring to attacks in the German city on New Year's Eve - largely attributed to foreigners - that have sparked 800 complaints, 520 of them relating to sexual crimes.


I say starting to wise up. He still backs the idea that defeating ISIS will solve the problem. That is about as believable as the prospect of peace in the Middle East.

Its a shame he didn't see the problem a year ago. It was pretty obvious. But if he posted these opinion here today, he would be labeled a Nazi and an Islamophobe by those who pretend to care about people.

The Mussies have invaded Europe.

No one wants them.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 9:24pm:


Premier Mike Baird of NSW wants them.

He's made a pre-Australia Day speech in which he wags a scolding finger at anyone who doesn't want Muslims to migrate here. He includes leading politicians in Europe, and the US's Donald Trump for his verbal bashing.

Who the hell does this stuffed-shirt righteous little prick think he is to lecture us on the matter of choosing in a democracy what sort of people we don't want as our neighbours?

"New South Wales Premier Mike Baird says Australia has reached a fork in the road in its refugee policy and will be denying its history if it closes the door on new arrivals.

"To shut our doors to refugees, as many here and around the world are calling for, is to deny our history, to deny our character.

"In a quest for personal comfort let us not sacrifice who we are above all, which is welcoming, compassionate and inclusive."

What a wånker -- what a Luvvy.

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I'm not too sure these soldiers died so that mosques could be built all over Australia.

Freedom, my ass. They died to protect the Suez Canal which was strategic to the British Empire. I admire their courage, but they went because duty called, and secondly, to prove what Australians were made of.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 10:51am:


Herb, I presume we are talking about the Anzacs who went off to WW1. I don't get where the demographic of Australia comes in. That demographic was never threatened by Imperial Germany or the vanity of the Kaiser's field marshals. A generation of German aristocrats had grown up tales of thumping the French in short summer campaigns. This was bolstered by antagonism toward British industrial export hegemony and envy of Empire.

If German had defeated France in 1914, they would not have imposed a new order on the French or anyone else. A new generation of German militarists wanted to live up to the success of the Prussian forbears of 1870. Once Britain went to the aid of France, the dominions and colonies did what they saw as their duty. They did not fight to preserve their rights or racial make-up.

issuevoter wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 12:51pm:


Correct - they went off to the First World War from Australia because a great many of them were in fact British immigrants who were experiencing mass unemployment because of the jobs situation at the time, with many of the Aussie country lads joining up for a bit of a lark with their mates.

Despite the official propaganda almost none of these men enlisted because of noble sentiments about fighting for God, the King, and the British Empire. It was a lark and a caper with travel and Parisian brothels as the main attraction.

A Boys' Own Adventure.

My cousin was one of these poor, naive Unfortunates who didn't have the vaguest idea of what he was volunteering for. He died in Belgium in 1917. A school in southern NSW has a plaque with his name on it.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 1:55pm:


Oh, indeed. Irish Catholics opposed conscription during WWI. Plenty were imprisoned.

As for the Jews, well. Non-religious Jews were put into the ovens with the Jehova Witnesses, Quakers and even God-fearing Lutherans who tried to follow the example set by their prophet.

Still, I tend to agree. Religion did have nothing to do with these wars.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 1:55pm:


And a very humble opinion it is too.