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Column - Abbott warns Europe to fight or lose

Andrew Bolt – Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8:09am)

SEEMING good, achieving evil. Tony Abbott has nailed the truth of Europe’s surrender to an army of illegal immigrants.
Yet the deposed prime minister was again abused by the media for trying to defend the West.
First, the harsh facts about what Abbott in his Margaret Thatcher lecture on Tuesday in London called these “culture-shifting population transfers” to Europe, possibly “changing it forever”. Last year more than 280,000 illegal immigrants poured into Europe, most sailing to Italy from Libya. This year that flood became a tsunami. More than 710,000 illegal immigrants have so far crossed the borders, most now landing in Greece.
Many are fleeing Syria’s war, but a quarter come from Iraq and Afghanistan and others from Eritrea, Iran, Pakistan and even far-off Nigeria and Bangladesh.
And next year? How many then?
Note also that 70 per cent of the arrivals are men. They will want families and brides to join them.
There is no way Europe can cope with this onslaught and this clash of cultures — not when most immigrants are Muslim and many without the work skills Europe needs.
“The imperative to ‘love your neighbour as you love yourself” is at the heart of every Western polity”, Abbott acknowledged in his lecture.
“But — right now — this wholesome instinct is leading much of Europe into catastrophic error …
“No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself.”
Europe would “require some force” to stop the arrivals, with “tens — perhaps hundreds — of millions of people” eager to come, too.
Boats had to be turned around and camps created for refugees in the countries bordering those they’d fled.
But no sooner had Abbott finished speaking than the ABC was inviting critics to savage him.
(Read full column here.)

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