Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Browne Anthony
Title : Do we need mass immigration ? The economic, demographic, environmental, social and developmental arguments against large-scale net immigration to Britain
Year : 2002

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Author. Anthony Browne is the Environment Editor of The Times. He has previously been Health Editor at the Observer, Deputy Business Editor at the Observer, Economics Correspondent at the Observer, and Economics Reporter at the BBC. He is also author of The Euro—should Britain join? (Icon Books). Challenge to Critics. This book tries to raise serious issues about the future shape of our society and economy, how we adapt to population ageing and help global development in an informed and objective way, which I know will be met with much opposition. But simply making accusations of racism, pointing at the joys of diversity, or citing how many wonderful Vietnamese restaurants there are in London, avoids the debate. If substantive, coherent arguments are not raised in opposition to the points made, then one can only presume there are no such arguments. The question that needs answering is : Why would one of the world’s most densely crowded islands, with a naturally growing population and a growing workforce, not suffering a demographic time bomb, with desperately overstretched public services, suffering from road congestion and overcrowded public transport, suffering from a housing crisis so severe that the government has to impose high density housing on communities who really don’t want it, and which has a total of four million people out of work who want to work, including 1.5 million unemployed—why should such a country need immigration at such levels that it quadruples the rate of population growth, creates parallel societies and brings enough people to fill a city the size of Cambridge every six to eight months ? Why, also, should the rich world drain the Third World of its talent ? My answer is that Britain doesn’t need—and as surveys repeatedly show, want—such levels of immigration. The answer is that the record net immigration that we are experiencing is not in the interests of the British or even generally in the interest of the countries from where the immigrants come, although it is in the interests of the immigrants themselves. What’s your answer ? ...