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First the Poles, now the Rumanians and Bulgarians
Two and a half years ago when ten more countries were admitted to the EU, it led to the largest wave of immigration in Britain’s history—with, for example, ten times the number of Poles entering Britain than had been predicted by officials. Now the European Commission has recommended that those great countries of Bulgaria and Rumania be admitted to the EU as well. In fact, Rumania and Bulgaria have already been admitted to the EU, a status that will become official in January. Within hours of the announcement thousands of people in those countries were lining up for British passports. Andrew Green of Migration Watch UK, who I am told is the UK’s most prominent commentator on immigration, worries about the likelihood of an influx of Bulgarian and Rumanian workers and urges caution, but, in the manner of even relatively conservative Englishmen today, Green is so diffident in the way he expresses himself that his column makes very little impression.
What has happened to these people? What has happened is that they have given up their nation, and given up sovereign control over their nation, so that when any particular development occurs that harms their nation, they have no basis on which to stop it. All they can do is make diffident noises. This is what liberalism does to people.
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