An Irish pensioner was killed on the streets of London a few weeks ago, robbed for his box of cornflakes, shepherd’s pie and a newspaper.
John Mackey was an 87-year-old Irish man who died after being attacked while walking home from grocery shopping in north London. He was buried in his native Kilkenny last Thursday. Mr Mackey had worked as a postman in Callan before moving to England in 1956 where he worked for a pharmaceutical company.
Fr Dalton told mourners at his funeral on Thursday that Mr Mackey went to London and it was there that “he would spend his life and would become immersed in the culture [and] integrated into society. He became a devout Arsenal fan and a loyal part of the Irish community there. Part of him will always be with us, even though there is a void, the memories of him will always be with us.”
He was one of those Irish men that moved to the UK back in the day that politicians like Labour MP John McDonnell love to use to support the open borders mania in the UK. John McDonnell MP would have us believe that his own grandfather and my husband’s grandfather, as well as the grandparents of half that Irish football team in Italia 90, are exactly the same as the young men who rock up to the shores of both countries from Chad, Afghanistan or Eritrea. They are not.
I find it truly amazing how the common travel area has been used by politicians in both Ireland and the UK to justify IPAS centres here and the use of hotels to accommodate illegal asylum seekers there. How do they manage it?
The fact that lots of Irish left for the UK under the common travel area means that for some reason, the folks of Newtownabbey and other villages in Ireland should be cock – a – hoop about losing their only hotel to accommodate ‘international protection applicants.’ And when I turn on BBC Radio 4 in the car some Labour politician is on telling the British voter how they should also be accommodating immigrants coming in their hundreds of thousands – because – you guessed it, Diversity is Our Strength and they were once part of the Evil empire.
So if you were colonised by the Brits in the past – you must open your border today. If you were the actual coloniser in the past – you have to open your border today. Confused? I am.
John Mackey, who was one of 11 siblings emigrated to London at the age of 19. The London he arrived in was very different to the London of today. Now, I am still a fan having lived there for twenty years but my husband who still travels there for work is less enamoured. He is not alone.
Last week two blokes in the British media commentariat got into a ding – dong as to whether London was top notch or going to the dogs. The ever annoying Fraser ‘diversity is our strength’ Nelson tweeted, ‘London is a better city than it was a decade ago – or, perhaps, at any time.’
Matt Goodwin, who has been exposing the open borders racket in the UK, thought London was ‘over.’ He finished the week with a very depressing piece in the Daily Mail. Goodwin said London has “morphed into a city that is unrecognisable from years ago and is now in manifest and rapid decline, with deteriorating standards and no real sense of identity or belonging. While my tweet predictably irritated London liberals, it clearly struck a chord with a much larger audience.” He continues, “knife crime, gang violence, robberies, pickpocketing and so-called “moped-enabled crimes’ have also become everyday features of London life.”
For John Mackey, it is Matt Goodwin’s take that proved tragically true. At his funeral Pat, the eldest of Mr Mackey’s 22 nieces and nephews remembered “the perfect uncle” who “always had a twinkle in his eye, always smelling of lovely aftershave.”
She recalled spending time with him in Finsbury Park, trying to get him to eat Chinese food. “But, no, he had to have his fry with chips. We all remember such happy times, he was a one-off. We are so incredibly lucky to have had him as our uncle.”
Finsbury Park is in north London. And it was in north London that Mr Mackey was brutally killed. He was beaten and robbed after he made a trip to his local Co-op to buy food and a newspaper.
Peter Augustine, 58, was charged the next day with murdering Mr Mackey. Augustine was also charged with robbing the pensioner of his duffel bag containing a box of cornflakes, a shepherd’s pie and a newspaper.
So they are killing pensioners for their shepherd’s pie and newspaper. But Fraser Nelson will tell you that as well as Britain experiencing an ‘integration miracle’ London ‘is even better than it was a decade ago.’ I lived there a decade ago, this is an outright lie. They do this all the time – lie to your face and dare you to challenge them.
Fraser Nelson is part of the conservative Inc media elite over there – the same elite that has given the country away. There is not much difference between that elite and the Irish one who are also more than happy to give their country away as long as it doesn’t touch Donnybrook, Dalkey and the rest of them. You know who these people are. And so do I.
Irishman John Mackey had a good life in London. At his funeral in Kilkenny his coffin was adorned with two flags, representing his beloved Arsenal Football Club and the county colours of Kilkenny. There were his rosary beads that helped him through his long, happy and fruitful life. John Mackey didn’t deserve to be set upon, robbed and killed for his box of cornflakes. No one should make you think this kind of thing is normal in either Dublin or London.
John Mackey.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May his souls and all the souls of the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
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