After Brexit, the Calais Wall: God save England

by Giuseppe Terranova - 2016.09.08

The British wanted go to the head of the class -- and beat out their ex-relatives, the Americans -- in their long-standing competition with the U.S. Without waiting for Trump, they decided to be the first to announce their "Calais Wall". Hoping to sell the illusion of being able to stop, with another one of a myriad of useless obstructions, the endless wave of populism and immigration that has for years plagued Europe. The truth is that the slab of cement 1 km in length and 4 meters high, that will materially mark the exit of Great Britain from Europe, will only be an expression of "a stupid use of public funds" as expressed by the association of British truck drivers. Because the drivers who have to deal everyday with the problem of immigration explain that before ever reaching Calais, groups of immigants who are somewhat organized -- try climbing into their TIR on the secondary roads, using them like Trojan horses to conquer the "Perfidious Albion".



The enormous futility of this super technological blockade costing 2 million Sterling blockade does not stop here. Seeing as not one iota will change in the small strip of France where the real human drama of social problems and sanitary crises, and public unrest is unfolding. In fact, it is not by chance that the maxi refugee camp created in 2003 with the English-French Treaty of Le Trouquet, is called "The Jungle" -- where 10,000 beings of unknown idenity or origin are living. Almost impossible to distinguish illegal immigrants from assylum seekers, criminals or terrorsists. A galaxy of pitiable souls encaged in an eternal purgatory.



No mention was made to all this by new British Interior Minister, Amber Rudd while she presented her "great monument". At this point, it would have been inconceivable if she would have admitted that perhaps the problem that she was rediculously trying to solve, by displacing some here and some there, might have been more easily solved with a true European Immigration Policy. It would have been too much for the representative of a government that inaugurated in Europe the new, old era of "every man for himself, God for all" (“chacun pour soi, die pour tous”). It's not important if some scraps of common political interest worked, like the EU-Turkey Agreement. Across the Channel -- there is no turning back. The only answer to this and many other problems is isolationism. A closing off from the world and shift of the baricenter of European politics to the Right. With the risks of a true "breaking of the ranks" that sounds like a Requiem for the European Union.