Neo-racialism

We’ve already heard that the UK is about the only country in Europe that is going to give equal rights to reside, work or claim benefits to the citizens of the new joiner countries to the EU. France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, et al, the proud architects of the egalitarian European dream, are going to tell the new lads from the wrong side of the European tracks to sod off until 2011. But now it appears that our even–handed adherence to principle is also going to further screw up our already screwed university system. Thanks to Tony’s daft new policies, the poor old British plumbers, grannies and Congestion Charge wardens won’t have to pay through their taxes for UK students anymore, but they will have to pay for the UK education of legions of bright young things from places such as Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Latvia. About which I am sure they will be delighted.

While I’m on this subject, I’ve thought for some time that the US should give us right to reside and work over there (in exchange for reciprocal rights, as within the EU) — we’re about the only buggers who ever stand by them on anything — but instead, we are expressly excluded from their Greencard scheme, on the basis that they’ve got too many Brits already and would rather have some more Iranians, Saudis, Yemanis, Afghans or even bloody French than us. So stuff Europe and stuff the US. It is quite clear to me that we are the only cool nation in the world and everyone else is just jealous. And, without wishing to be too xenophobic about this, you can put that in your foreign pipes and smoke it.