The saddest aspect of the debate on immigration is that few of the advocates of mass immigration, or apologists for it, will be around to see how wrong they were. The “I told you so” moment is some years down the line.
I have a friend with impeccable liberal credentials on the subject of immigration. He likes to lose himself walking in the Lake District. I told him that the population of the UK is projected to increase to 80 million by 2060 and that, if the projection is accurate, his beloved Lake District...
The British government is doing the right thing in targeting resources at the refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan, where people are poorer than either those able to afford to buy train tickets to Budapest (and then to Germany) or those able to pay people-traffickers. When does someone cease to be...
Communism the world over is the answer. That way, nobody in the world has anything, there is uniform poverty, thus eliminating the inequalities which force people to flee from poor parts of the world to the rich.
Just a thought…
The intended destination of the migrants – all of them, including those at Calais – suggests that they are not simply asylum-seekers. They do not want sanctuary in the EU per se. They want sanctuary in the rich parts of the EU. That makes them economic migrants, not asylum-seekers.
Why is the...
I remain convinced that Western countries have a death-wish. Enoch Powell spoke about Britain building its own funeral pyre. For “Britain” read “the West”.
Western countries are run by deracinated metropolitan cosmopolites who care little or nothing for the indigenous people and their concerns...