We are now reaping the Multicultural whirlwind that wise (but ignored and vilified) people predicted all along. It is therefore academic to say what we should have done....but here goes anyway:
The only sane immigration policy to have adopted, these past few decades, would have been to filter/select for immigrants who could convincingly show a positive identification with the VALUES of the host society. Immigration to19th/early 20thc. America was approximately that way....or am I romanticising? Yes it would have been difficult and imperfect but it would not have been impossible except for the problem of disdain for those very same values being rife in the governing classes themselves.
Actually, your proposed policy needn't have been too complex. We shouldn't have taken anybody from Muslim or Roma societies and should have looked very carefully at the black people we took in from the West Indies and Africa. Albanians and most Bulgarians should also have been on the banned list, as should most Middle Easterners (they mostly come under 'Muslim' anyway). On the Okay List could have been east Asians (Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Hong Kongers etc.), all western Europeans, anyone from the Anglosphere and some eastern Europeans (Poles, Czechs etc.) plus Hindus and Sikhs from the sub-continent. That surely would have been enough to be going on with.
Well Yes, a good plan. The only trouble?.... the delicious post-imperial guilt-tripping of our intelligentsia plus political and administrative governing classes that has been building exponentially for the last 70 years.
Yes, I knew there must be a hitch in my deviously clever plan. My mistake was to assume that the governing class want what the rest of us want i.e. the best for Britain. A foolish assumption.
The centre Right particularly across the Anglo-sphere has been completely captured by international finance capitalism and the forces of open borders Globalisation.
Its reduced our ancestral homeland to an economic zone open to the World in the interests of international finance capitalism.
There are no solutions inside the Liberal paradigm.
It might be unfair to claim the author imagined she was saying anything new or remarkable. I viewed it as a potted history of all that has gone before, immigration-wise. But I see your point. Douglas Murray, Mark Steyn (whatever happened to him?), John Derbyshire, David Goodhart and Enoch Powell, to name just a few, must be thinking, 'I've been saying the same thing for most of my life'. As someone once said: 'Everything has already been said - but not everyone has said it yet'.
We are now reaping the Multicultural whirlwind that wise (but ignored and vilified) people predicted all along. It is therefore academic to say what we should have done....but here goes anyway:
The only sane immigration policy to have adopted, these past few decades, would have been to filter/select for immigrants who could convincingly show a positive identification with the VALUES of the host society. Immigration to19th/early 20thc. America was approximately that way....or am I romanticising? Yes it would have been difficult and imperfect but it would not have been impossible except for the problem of disdain for those very same values being rife in the governing classes themselves.
Actually, your proposed policy needn't have been too complex. We shouldn't have taken anybody from Muslim or Roma societies and should have looked very carefully at the black people we took in from the West Indies and Africa. Albanians and most Bulgarians should also have been on the banned list, as should most Middle Easterners (they mostly come under 'Muslim' anyway). On the Okay List could have been east Asians (Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Hong Kongers etc.), all western Europeans, anyone from the Anglosphere and some eastern Europeans (Poles, Czechs etc.) plus Hindus and Sikhs from the sub-continent. That surely would have been enough to be going on with.
Well Yes, a good plan. The only trouble?.... the delicious post-imperial guilt-tripping of our intelligentsia plus political and administrative governing classes that has been building exponentially for the last 70 years.
Yes, I knew there must be a hitch in my deviously clever plan. My mistake was to assume that the governing class want what the rest of us want i.e. the best for Britain. A foolish assumption.
Multiculturalism is incompatible with community cohesion, simple as that.
The centre Right particularly across the Anglo-sphere has been completely captured by international finance capitalism and the forces of open borders Globalisation.
Its reduced our ancestral homeland to an economic zone open to the World in the interests of international finance capitalism.
There are no solutions inside the Liberal paradigm.
It might be unfair to claim the author imagined she was saying anything new or remarkable. I viewed it as a potted history of all that has gone before, immigration-wise. But I see your point. Douglas Murray, Mark Steyn (whatever happened to him?), John Derbyshire, David Goodhart and Enoch Powell, to name just a few, must be thinking, 'I've been saying the same thing for most of my life'. As someone once said: 'Everything has already been said - but not everyone has said it yet'.