She’s right to say invasion

Not one Briton voted for forty, fifty, sixty thousand or more illegals to arrive on our shores each year.

Dealing with crime is worse than committing it. In 2017 Labour MP Sarah Champion wrote for The Sun newspaper that “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”. She was sacked from her frontbench role and subjected to death threats, forcing the Met to provide her security. Retribution against Champion was swift and decisive - while the rapists continued to enjoy reprieve.

Remarks by the Home Secretary this week reminded me of that shameful spectacle. Both Champion and Braverman have lived up to their names, Suellea being braver than most. And both dared to tell the truth, which as Orwell predicted it would be, is a revolutionary act. Braverman called the attack on our borders what it is, an invasion.

The Oxford English Dictionary gives several definitions of the word. It’s what Google informs me is polysemous, it can have several interpretations. That’s why football fans can invade a pitch as Russia can invade Ukraine. The first given definition of invasion is:

“The act of an army entering another country by force in order to take control of it.”

Do illegal migrants, 40,000 of whom have entered the country this year alone, constitute an army?

As given by the Dictionary – well, perhaps:

“A large number of people or things, especially when they are organised in some way or involved in a particular activity.”

The word invasion becomes less contentious by its subsequent meanings:

“The fact of a large number of people or things arriving somewhere, especially people or things that are unpleasant.”

The example given is of an annual tourist invasion.

Martin Daubney smartly observed that white working-class football fans are described as invaders if they trespass upon the pitch. The establishment is happy to wield this language against the native population, but shrieks in affected moral outrage when it is used to describe an ‘out-group’.

Not one Briton voted for 40, 50, 60 thousand or more illegal migrants to arrive on our shores each year. Not a single “X” was put in a box on a referendum in which housing hundreds of thousands of illegal entrants in four-star hotels was an option. Nobody asked for more drug dealers, terrorists or gang rapists. Though, to quote one former President, some, I assume, are good people.

It is estimated that between one per cent and two per cent of Albania’s entire male population has landed on the south coast this past year. That is an invasion. To employ another quote, we must be literally mad to be spending billions picking up their hotel tabs as our pensioners freeze to death.

The establishment wasted no time in mobilising against the Home Secretary. Home Office officials were giving anonymous briefings against Suella to any journo who would listen. Those journalists drank them up and spat them out with glee. Traitorous Tory MPs joined in the cowardly assault, buoyed by their allies on the opposition benches who howled with rage in the Commons. Blue checks on Twitter varied between feigned victimhood and fury.

Sam Freedman responded on Twitter by recounting that:

“Back in 1893 the Tory MP for Thanet James Lowther gave a speech saying the country was being ‘overrun’ by ‘destitute foreign migrants’ who should go back to where they came from. He was talking about Jews, including my great-great-grandparents. Pretty hard to distinguish any difference in tone or sentiment to what the ERG mob were saying today.”

One-hundred-and-thirty years after his family were given succour by the UK Freedman continues to harbour an ancestral grudge, which he wheels out to weaponise against patriots. Though one astute Twitter user looked into the speech, and found Freedman was either wrong, or lying. No such comments were made by James Lowther, who in actuality praised the Jewish community at length. Though he did make disparaging remarks about Italians – perhaps I’ll wheel that out to justify my extended family getting visas.

The execration will continue. But it is just white noise. This is an invasion, and it is right that the invaders are returned to their country of origin. But to get it done, Suella will need to be as smart as she is brave.