Immigration Should Be Talked About More Than It Is
January 8, 2010 by Webmaster
By Michael White
Guardian – It’s not just raw numbers, it’s who exactly the newcomers are, the contribution they make to the economy and wider society, the demands some may also makeIf campaigners for greater public discussion of Britain’s immigration policies are as serious as they claim to be they’ll have to do better than putting the bumbling former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, on the airwaves to promote their case – as they did today.
Personally, I’m in favour of such a debate, though well aware of why the major political parties run a mile from it. It’s become the dog that almost never barks, a fact I find amazing.
Why so? It’s a complex and emotive issue. Some voters who wouldn’t dream of doing society’s rotten jobs themselves want to “send them all back” yesterday. The BNP and its like hover malevolently without having anything useful to say either.
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