Our Europe On Doughty Street
I was watching an old version of Our Europe on 18 Doughty Street today presented by the Young Briton Foundation’s Shane Greer with Doughty Street regular Michael Ehoize-Ediae, Natasha Harrison and Elisabeth Davies on the panel.
The discussion centred on immigration – not for or against as the general consensus was for, but the differing degrees and levels of which immigrates should pass into Britain. Michael Ehoize-Ediae gave a fair account of himself and his case for controlled levels of immigration. I like Michael and he often speaks well but I think a better argument and line he could have taken would have been to talk about the cultural and ethnic tension that large scale immigration causes rather than try and argue on purely economic issues against the rabid economists.
Immigration is not purely an economic issue; it is also a social issue. This cannot be ignored. We had the lovely Elisabeth Davies from the Adam Smith Institute arguing for even greater levels of uncontrolled and unrestricted migration, which from a liberal economist’s perspective would be of exponentional benefit to the consumer. While I see the argument that higher levels of immigration create new jobs in the economy which spurs on economic growth – blahdy blah, blah etc: I also see that uncontrolled immigration causes huge social problems – which this Labour Government’s tenure in office has more than proved.
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