There are many factors underpinning the massive surge in
immigration over the past 16 years, and whereas the BBC and UKIP continually
hammer away at highlighting the very large-scale influx from the EU, the former
seeing it as a good thing the latter as a bad one, they both take care not to
make negative comments regarding the even larger inward flow of population from
outside of the EU, from countries such as Pakistan. Whether or not we agree
with the policy, there are legitimate and illegitimate ways of gaining
residence in the UK, and in recent years one of the primary illegitimate means
of setting up home here has been via student visa scams, which have enabled
tens of thousands people (possibly more), into the country. Sham marriages are
another means of exploiting the law to obtain residency status that would
otherwise have been denied, and a recent trial in Sheffield of individuals
involved in a scam co-ordinated by UK passport-holding Pakistanis in Rotherham revealed
that more than 60 applications for UK visas were based upon such marriages.
The composition of the gang involved in the Rotherham-based
scam operation is interesting: the men were predominantly Pakistanis and the
women a mix of Eastern Europeans (Czechs and Slovaks), Pakistani UK passport
holders and white British. Looking at the pictures in the associated Daily Mail report, it seems almost certain that the ‘Eastern Europeans’ Kristina Popikova
and Veronika Pohlodkova are Roma. Slovak Peter Pohodko also participated in the
scam as a bogus groom, marrying a Pakistani woman. Whilst Rotherham was the
main centre of this immigration racket, a number of Bradford residents were involved. The makeup of the individuals involved in this crime illustrates how an
absence of any intrinsic ties to our country mean that they care not about its
fate, and are quite willing to contribute to ongoing overpopulation, societal
fragmentation and breakdown for relatively modest amounts of money. What does it matter to these
recent Eastern European immigrants if England is
transformed into something increasingly resembling Pakistan? They can, after
all, always return to their home countries, and as readers know, those
countries possess minuscule Muslim populations and are not threatened with
cultural and societal dissolution through mass immigration.
Those possessing familial links with Pakistan involved in
this scam should not have been sentenced to prison terms in this country, but
should instead have had their property confiscated, their citizenship revoked
and been sent back to their ancestral familial homeland with no right of
readmission. This sort of crime can only be stopped if the consequences are
suitably severe and fitting, for otherwise people will be tempted to flout the
law to their personal gain and to society’s detriment.
Kristina Popikova: described as a Slovak, she would appear to be Roma
