Why can immigration not be discussed outside of racism? Why is the obvious always denounced as xenophobia? Of the four countries that make up the UK England is the most densely populated. England officially became the second most crowded major country in the EU in 2008. By 2011 the density of the population in England reached more than four times that of France. So what is the problem? Isn’t it obvious? Infrastructure is creaking: this includes housing, welfare, health, education, transport, access to legal aid, law and order; the list is endless and even reaches into the murkier areas of waste – we are running out of places to dump.
And yet to raise these issues means that you are a racist. “But no, ” you say, “I am only talking in terms of numbers. I don’t care where people come from but there must be a cap …” Ah, but freedom to move in Europe means that caps must be placed elsewhere and that means, by default, you are racist.
It’s impossible. At a time when the middles classes in India are restricting themselves to two children per family, at a time when China continues its policy of one child per family, some people still believe the UK should accept migration as a necessary good until it can take no more.
What is the solution? Simple: conduct a study to find the maximum population the country can sustain and stick to that figure. All argument ends right there because compassion above that figure means desperation for all. Though not, perhaps, for the employers, who will never have had it so good. Imagine queues of the unclean, the disenfranchised, being shovelled into buses by gang-masters. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is on its way back courtesy of the Neo Liberal agenda to have access to and control over a large and exploitable workforce ‘protected’ by the minimum wage and increased by the two-faced desire to offer a new chance to the poor of the world whilst building behind their backs ever more warehouses to sweat them in.
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