Quote of the day
“He has taken up more positions on immigration than someone in training with the Kama Sutra”
- Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne on Phil Woolas who, he said, had made a “cack-handed” start as Immigration Minister
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Lovely absentee kicking on Question Time for Phil. Nice to see Roy Hat there too .. despite him having been wrong about nearly everything since 1965, he still cheerfully wades in with his own brand of what occurred, what will occur next, why it will or won’t and how he differs from the mainstream in his view. Charming really.. like a sort of more affable Tony Benn or John Boy Prezza
Well the left is living out its wildest 1983 manifesto fantasies, nationalising the commanding heights of the economy with barely a squeak of free-marketeer opposition. No wonder Roy is happy!
He was right to raise the issue of population, as national & world overpopulation is a problem that needs to be addressed.
This isn’t necessarily about immigration, as Germany for example has a falling population despite immigration. But it hardly helps matters.
We should be promoting education, contraception & secularism & generally doing whatever we can to sort out the problems in the Third World so they live more sustainably. Solving the causes of immigration will reduce immigrant numbers & make the world more liveable.
Relying on things like GM food to provide for a rising population is setting ourselves up for a terrible fall. An international solution to the issue would create a better world for us & for others.
We used to shoot invaders. They used to travel under another Nation’s flag (post-Westphalia) to take your land/space and use if for themselves. In a post Woodrow-Doctrine world of self-determination, we get invaded by hordes of people who, rather than coming en masse, slip in one at a time to claim asylum and take some of our land/space for themselves. We used to kill invaders, we now give ‘asylum seekers’ free money and a place to live.
That’s not to say there aren’t genuine asylum seekers – I passionately believe that there are. But when a few hundred thousand Africans head to Europe for largely financial reasons, tough titty.
Send them back or shoot on sight. Until we do, there’ll be no political pressure within their native lands to reform themselves as its easier for the people to leave than struggle for reform.
Might make Heathrow a little messy, though, Shaun?
Should have thought of that when they built the new terminal.