Borders

  • Spain feels the threat

    The sight of random movement of persons across borders has now felt frightening for people in the UK for years. While the same has been commonplace in mainland Europe, a sudden rush of tens of thousands into a Spanish territory from Morocco has reminded its citizens that security is there for a good reason.

    The reaction by paid staff in remits that involve national security is crucial at these points. The population that pays for checkpoints, ID systems, and necessary uses of force expect it to be done for any nefarious purpose.

    The definition of borders doesn’t have to suddenly be changed to meet charitable realities. This line of defence we have against innumerable threats to our lived space is so vital that in future we’ll have to live to protect it.

    Spain is no doubt readying strengthening measures for all of its coastline, and not just in the places it calls its own. The reassurance that’s needed is a political pressure that’s put on governments to guarantee reliability in services.

  • Another day, another deal over the English Channel

    France is expected to receive a windfall of over half a billion to help us clear up the Dover Crossings crisis, setting the UK up to see yet more money plunged into an ever deepening black hole of international people movement crime.

    The crisis is at the heart of the Home Office’s response to chaos at our borders, and is also a central point of new legislation to combat illegal entry by setting up powers and arms to respond more effectively during future surges of activity.

    While the Home Secretary is said to be willing to enact such measures herself, conservatives in Parliament have called for less expensive, more punitive measures to be used to stop lawbreaking at source to restore law and order at UK borders.

  • America has a people-crisis long in the making

    If America is a great nation, it’s mostly by its own spending. It goes large on initiatives and bulks up on all the services that act as supports.

    However, the nation is in crisis. This is clear on its surface, but it’s also indicated underneath.

    The signs of its troubles are set back into its post-war “heyday”.

    It’s a term used by insiders to describe the spread of protected activity like protest in times of acute national activity like the war in Vietnam, a highly documented but also badly understood act.

    Although the theories put out are not actual facts, they have depth.

    The leading factor in its present chaos is said to be the activity of its protestors in its national security infrastructure.

    This is alleged to be the reason its Southern border became so compromised.

    The evidence suggests protestors tore down much of the protections the American state had set up. It led initially to inflows of Mexicans into American cities.

    This isn’t a problem, but it wasn’t obvious at the start that it was due to illegal movement.

    It created a data flaw and led to further problems upstream. It’s suggested this has created some of the trouble that divides politics right at the upper levels of it.

  • The UK falters at crisis points

    The UK has encountered at least two (at least one in full) full blown crisis points in the last decade.

    The Dover Crossings started in 2018 and a few years later a health pandemic kicked in.

    These have both challenged our national capacity. They’ve also challenged our patience as a people group.

    It’s not racists that are frustrated, but the public workers that have to navigate the complexities.

    These times show us that as a modern State most people irritate at the worst time possible. It slows us down and causes huge upset.

    The question is if we’re going to hate each other, or if we’re going to leave each other alone until the time is then right?

  • Fake Information: Only officials take care of our coastlines

    The information that someone in official workwear is solely permitted to take care of our safety at a coastline is fake. It’s not true according to official advice, and also local guidelines.

    Project Kraken, supported by Border Force, Joint Maritime Security Centre, NCA and other key organisations, advises the public to make use of what they see at coasts and maritime bays.