Airstrip One

Sanction Stupidity

So we're thinking about imposing sanctions on countries that don't co-operate with us on illegal immigration. As this alarm is at the EU level, it does indicate that Schengen would not solve our problems on this matter as some of the more excitable Federasts would like us to believe.

It is also indicative as to how far we have lost control of the immigration agenda. In previous less enlightened times the government would have clamped down on welfare entitlements and the courts would have interpreted immigration entitlements as they were written in both Act and Treaty. Now we talk about impossing ineffective sanctions.