This sort of article by Jonathan Portes is so depressing: http://brightblue.org.uk/immigration/?q=content/coal-and-immigration-two-common-stories
He genuinely believes that people are interchangeable.
That a society made up of immigrants is no different to a society made up of families who have a thousand-year continuum broadly in the same place interacting with the same institutions.
He sounds like those Aussi wine producers who assure you that the swill they bulk-produce in aluminium barrels is just as good as the wines produced through the French terroir system.
The society we have in the United Kingdom has grown up organically over many centuries. It can be expanded by adding people gradually. But the idea that you can transplant millions of people and society is going to remain the same is nonsensical.
Of course if you don't care about British society (or indeed are covertly hostile to it) then the destructive nature of mass immigration will not bother you.
And shame on Bright Blue for giving this dissembler a platform - except that one cannot take Bright Blue seriously (a report on Newsnight showed that the "think tank" is just a desk in Ryan Shorthouse's bedroom).
He genuinely believes that people are interchangeable.
That a society made up of immigrants is no different to a society made up of families who have a thousand-year continuum broadly in the same place interacting with the same institutions.
He sounds like those Aussi wine producers who assure you that the swill they bulk-produce in aluminium barrels is just as good as the wines produced through the French terroir system.
The society we have in the United Kingdom has grown up organically over many centuries. It can be expanded by adding people gradually. But the idea that you can transplant millions of people and society is going to remain the same is nonsensical.
Of course if you don't care about British society (or indeed are covertly hostile to it) then the destructive nature of mass immigration will not bother you.
And shame on Bright Blue for giving this dissembler a platform - except that one cannot take Bright Blue seriously (a report on Newsnight showed that the "think tank" is just a desk in Ryan Shorthouse's bedroom).
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