Unco-ordinated Confusion
International Flights Continue to Bring 100,000 Unchecked Travellers a Week to Britain
Oliver J J Lane
Breitbart London
Despite introducing severe lockdown on its own residents, the UK government has not enacted any incoming travel restrictions, leaving over 100,000 arrivals a week free to enter the country unscreened, the health secretary revealed.
Asked by UK television host — and self-proclaimed “friend” of U.S. President Donald Trump — Piers Morgan on how many people were being tested for coronavirus as they stepped off international flights arriving in the nation’s airports, health secretary Matt Hancock revealed there was no routine testing at Britain’s air borders going on at all.
Following up that admission with the number of people still arriving in the United Kingdom by air, despite much of the global flying industry working at minimum capacity, Mr Hancock said around 15,000 people a day were landing, reports London’s Times.
While this number is a fraction of the number of people normally arriving in the United Kingdom — Heathrow, the country’s largest airport, would typically see an aircraft land or take off every 45 seconds and 213,000 people move through it a day — it still means a significant 105,000 people coming to Britain every week without a health check. [Emphasis, ours.]
Showing posts with label Borders. Show all posts
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Friday, 24 April 2020
Monday, 21 August 2017
Going Way, Way Back To The Present
Humanitarianism, Open Borders, And Slavery
In a modern country in 2017, how would you define slavery? The definition would surely include someone being forced to work against their will--in other words, someone who does not have the option or opportunity to resign or quit and walk away. It would apply to a person who has no access to the protection of the country's labour laws. It would include those over whose heads dire consequences hang if they refuse to work or neglect to do what they are told. It would cover those who are held against their will and forced to work.
Do such things exist in the OECD countries today? You bet they do. It's not just that they exist: in truth such things have multiplied to the point where, we are told, they are now endemic. We have incidents reported occasionally in New Zealand. People seeking work or student visas pay large sums of money to "agents" who process them through the system. Then they turn upon their "clients" and demand services and work against their will, until they pay off their debts. But their "remuneration" is little more than a meagre sum of money to keep them physically moving.
In New Zealand, when such circumstances come to light and are reported to the authorities, interdiction and state vengeance follow, provided the abuse can be proven. But whilst such things remain underground they continue. In the UK, we are now told, slavery operates in every large town and city in Britain. Europe has become one of the fastest growing regions for slavery in the world.
In a modern country in 2017, how would you define slavery? The definition would surely include someone being forced to work against their will--in other words, someone who does not have the option or opportunity to resign or quit and walk away. It would apply to a person who has no access to the protection of the country's labour laws. It would include those over whose heads dire consequences hang if they refuse to work or neglect to do what they are told. It would cover those who are held against their will and forced to work.
Do such things exist in the OECD countries today? You bet they do. It's not just that they exist: in truth such things have multiplied to the point where, we are told, they are now endemic. We have incidents reported occasionally in New Zealand. People seeking work or student visas pay large sums of money to "agents" who process them through the system. Then they turn upon their "clients" and demand services and work against their will, until they pay off their debts. But their "remuneration" is little more than a meagre sum of money to keep them physically moving.
In New Zealand, when such circumstances come to light and are reported to the authorities, interdiction and state vengeance follow, provided the abuse can be proven. But whilst such things remain underground they continue. In the UK, we are now told, slavery operates in every large town and city in Britain. Europe has become one of the fastest growing regions for slavery in the world.
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