Another Brit for immigration reductions

Max Hastings in The Daily Mail favors a drastic reduction of immigration below Britain’s current unprecedentedly high—indeed insane—level of over 300,000 immigrants per year, and also below the 145,000 per year that the Labor government is speaking of as a goal. Kudos to Hastings for being the rare Brit who will make a concrete, non-relativistic statement about cutting immigration. Hastings also praises the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, the “wets’ wet,” as he describes him, for advocating “stricter controls” on immigration. But in the absence of more specificity, a call for “stricter controls” on immigration is meaningless, as was Melanie Phillips’s vague statement of support for “tough controls” on immigration that she buried in the last chapter of Londonistan in early 2006, afterwards never returning to the subject again.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 26, 2007 04:05 PM | Send