On the Adam Smith website Sam Bowman tells us "The starting point in any discussion about restricting immigration should be that restrictions make us poorer".
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/the-starting-point-in-the-immigration-debate
Sam Bowman, and Gavin Barwell MP whom he quotes, are of course wrong.
The starting point in any policy, especially a policy that results in overwhelming and comprehensive social change, must be the democratic will of the people.
How is it possible for the United Kingdom to call itself a democracy when a policy that the majority of the population has ALWAYS opposed keeps happening?
It's not possible.
Democracy becomes a sham.
The people become angry and volatile and start to dream about pulling down the elite and replacing them with a more amenable system.
If immigration has so many benefits all Sam Bowman and Gavin Barwell have to do is put it in a manifesto and ask people to vote for it. Up front and open. Knock on doors with your charts and statistics and convince people to give it a yes.
Otherwise we might as well be living in a dictatorship.
And that is not what anybody wants.
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/the-starting-point-in-the-immigration-debate
Sam Bowman, and Gavin Barwell MP whom he quotes, are of course wrong.
The starting point in any policy, especially a policy that results in overwhelming and comprehensive social change, must be the democratic will of the people.
How is it possible for the United Kingdom to call itself a democracy when a policy that the majority of the population has ALWAYS opposed keeps happening?
It's not possible.
Democracy becomes a sham.
The people become angry and volatile and start to dream about pulling down the elite and replacing them with a more amenable system.
If immigration has so many benefits all Sam Bowman and Gavin Barwell have to do is put it in a manifesto and ask people to vote for it. Up front and open. Knock on doors with your charts and statistics and convince people to give it a yes.
Otherwise we might as well be living in a dictatorship.
And that is not what anybody wants.
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