Newsnight yesterday discussed the utterly fatuous forward report by the Office for Budget Responsibility claiming that 140,000 more immigrants are needed every year for the next fifty years to care for the projected aging population.
It seems that for every challenge the United Kingdom faces the answer of the left is "we need more immigrants".
What has happened to the millions of immigrants who have entered the country since 1997? Migration has been on such a massive scale that if economic growth results from migration we should already be seeing stratospheric growth rates. As we are clearly not experiencing any growth (worthy of the name) the conclusion must be that economic growth does NOT result from massive immigration (and therefore we must conclude that Robert Chote is a lying toad).
And is it not laughable that Robert Chote and his OBR should attempt to predict what the world is going to be like in fifty years time? Who in 1963 could have predicted how the United Kingdom would look in 2013? Are we paying the OBR to produce science-fiction fantasy reports?
There are no end of scenarios that could be projected over the next fifty years - for instance euthanasia might be introduced so that the elderly are culled; genetically-modified cloning might be allowed so that we have millions of workers designed solely to be care assistants; global warming might become so severe that we can rent out British Antarctica and live off the receipts etc.
All of these scenarios are horrific, but none of them as horrific as the prospect of millions more migrants entering the country and going on about their "rights" and insisting on how good "vibrant diversity" is for us and voting in Labour governments that tell endless lies, smash up our institutions, and launch so-called ethical wars that kill brown people.
Predictably the pro-immigration claque is already going yippee, we've found another excuse to let in more people.
Jonathan Portes is already marshalling his slide rule and his Excel spreadsheets and getting ready to "prove", through the remorseless application of statistics (used as a bludgeon), that migration cannot possibly have any downsides.
It seems that for every challenge the United Kingdom faces the answer of the left is "we need more immigrants".
What has happened to the millions of immigrants who have entered the country since 1997? Migration has been on such a massive scale that if economic growth results from migration we should already be seeing stratospheric growth rates. As we are clearly not experiencing any growth (worthy of the name) the conclusion must be that economic growth does NOT result from massive immigration (and therefore we must conclude that Robert Chote is a lying toad).
And is it not laughable that Robert Chote and his OBR should attempt to predict what the world is going to be like in fifty years time? Who in 1963 could have predicted how the United Kingdom would look in 2013? Are we paying the OBR to produce science-fiction fantasy reports?
There are no end of scenarios that could be projected over the next fifty years - for instance euthanasia might be introduced so that the elderly are culled; genetically-modified cloning might be allowed so that we have millions of workers designed solely to be care assistants; global warming might become so severe that we can rent out British Antarctica and live off the receipts etc.
All of these scenarios are horrific, but none of them as horrific as the prospect of millions more migrants entering the country and going on about their "rights" and insisting on how good "vibrant diversity" is for us and voting in Labour governments that tell endless lies, smash up our institutions, and launch so-called ethical wars that kill brown people.
Predictably the pro-immigration claque is already going yippee, we've found another excuse to let in more people.
Jonathan Portes is already marshalling his slide rule and his Excel spreadsheets and getting ready to "prove", through the remorseless application of statistics (used as a bludgeon), that migration cannot possibly have any downsides.
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