You might have noticed that mass migration to the West is a huge problem.
It is very bad for native Westerners, because it promises to transform our societies utterly, in permanent ways and not for the better. Curiously, it is also far from great for the centre-Left political establishment responsible for promoting mass migration, because it has inspired a vast wave of popular opposition and filled the sails of Right-leaning, migration restrictionist parties with new wind. Mass migration is also bad for taxpayers, for domestic security, for the welfare state, for many other aspects of the postwar liberal agenda and for our own future prospects. In short, mass migration is bad for almost everybody and everything.
There is a reason that nations have borders, and this is much the same reason that we have skin and that cells have membranes. You won’t survive for very long if you can’t control what enters you.
Despite the obvious fact that mass migration is bad, our rulers cling to migrationism like grim death. Given a choice between disincentivising asylees and intimidating, browbeating and harassing the millions of anti-migrationists among their own citizens, our governments generally choose the latter path, even though it is obviously the worse of the two.
Additionally unsettling is the fact that official justifications for mass migration often have a creepy, post hoc flavour about them. They sound much more like excuses dreamed up after the borders had already been opened, rather than any kind of reason mass migration must occur. When the migrationists really started to go crazy in 2015, for example, we were told that border security was simply impossible in the modern world and that infinity migrants were a force of nature we would have to deal with. That didn’t sound right even at the time, and since the pandemic border closures we no longer hear the inevitability narrative very much, although – and this is very bizarre to type – there is some evidence that high political figures like Angela Merkel believed it at the time. It is well worth thinking about why that might have been the case.
Another excuse that doesn’t make very much sense is what I’ll call the refugee thesis. We’re told that millions of poor people are forced to endure terrible conditions in the developing world and that it is our moral burden to improve their lot by granting them residence in our countries. That might convince a few teenage girls, but it cannot withstand scrutiny among the rest of us. To begin with, the population of global unfortunates is enormous; the millions of refugees we have already accepted, and the millions that our politicians hope to welcome in the coming years, represent but a vanishing minority – a rounding error – compared to the vast sea of human suffering. It is like trying to solve homelessness by demanding that those in the wealthiest neighbourhoods make their spare bedrooms available to the indigent. Even more telling, however, is that the push to welcome migrants comes precisely as conditions in the developing world have dramatically improved. When things were much worse, we sealed our borders against the Global South; now that they are much better, we hear all about how unacceptably inhumane it is to leave the migrants in their native lands.
Other post hoc arguments, especially those falling in the yay-multiculturalism category, are even less serious. That we need more diversity to ‘spark innovation’ (whatever that means) or that our local cuisines stand to benefit from the spices of the disadvantaged are excuses of such towering stupidity that you will lose brain cells thinking about them. As with the refugee narrative, nobody said crazy stuff like this until the migrants had already begun arriving on our shores. And there is another thing to notice about the multiculticult too. This is its blatant flippancy. The premise seems to be that migration is no big deal bro, but also too there are these cool exciting and totally random upsides, like improved local Ethiopian food offerings. It is the very definition of damning with faint praise.
From fake excuses, we progress to real causes. I am anxious to hear your theories, and perhaps I’ll provide another post on this theme compiling the most interesting of them.
For myself, I see two interrelated and mutually supporting factors:
Demographic decline and labour shortages: I know I know, nobody likes this theory, but hear me out. It’s hard to miss the coincidence between the post-baby-boom demographic decline of Western nations and their escalating distaste for border security. Countries like Germany face a difficult future of labour shortages and insolvent pension programmes, as each subsequent generation must support an ever larger number of retirees. Here politicians find themselves between a rock and another even harder rock. Older generations vote at very high rates, and proposals to abridge their pensions or raise the retirement age amount to political suicide, especially for establishment parties with fading constituencies made up primarily of olds. On the other hand, demanding that youngs sacrifice ever larger shares of their salaries to keep older generations healthy and hale is a very hard sell, particularly because these youngs must realise sooner or later that there aren’t going to be any pension programmes at all when they retire. If only politicians could conjure into existence a vast pool of younger guest workers, who might redress labour shortages and fund pensions without having much recourse at the ballot box, everything would be happy and solvent again.
I submit that it’s not that crazy on the face of it. To begin with, the migrationists themselves often talk about these very things. You can turn on the television at any moment and hear a captain of industry railing against the AfD for the threat they pose to the labour market. What is more, there is some precedent. Many Western countries experimented with mass migration for the first time during postwar economic expansion, precisely to redress labour shortages. Germany welcomed guest workers first from Italy and then from Turkey to sustain its economic miracle, and this thinking is still very much alive in some quarters.
This cannot, however, be a Total Theory of Mass Migration. Far from contributing to the welfare state, our new guests burden it disproportionately, largely because they do not find work at anything like the same rates as natives, and also because when they do find work, it is mostly in low-skilled, poorly paid positions. Crucially, this is not all their fault: many European countries, and Germany in particular, have long-established protections for native workers in the form of licences, certifications, educational requirements and the like. We have done everything to keep our borders open, while leaving these protections almost entirely in place. That does not make very much sense, but it is also the kind of idiocy we have come to expect from our late-stage managerial bureaucracy, which has serious problems with coordination and prefers approaches that do not require much effort (neglecting border security) over those that would entail some vision and initiative (rethinking worker qualifications).
After much pondering, I would propose this thesis: the labour-shortage justification is not sufficient in itself, nor is it the real aim of migrationist policies in general. It has been crucial, however, in getting a certain kind of fiscally observant, centre-Right politician on board with the programme, and in this way it has helped to make migrationism a consensus policy.
The universalist vision: both postwar liberalism and leftism have developed a towering impatience with the autonomous politics of the nation state, and necessarily also with national borders. These are ideologies that make moral claims for all of humanity, with adherents who prefer to see themselves not so much as leaders of particular nations but as members of an international elite bent on solving global problems. Mass migration is merely one aspect of these elites’ broader, longstanding preoccupation with the developing world, which is also expressed via massive foreign aid payments, hugely expensive state-funded philanthropic endeavours and even a general cultural (and moral) elevation of all that is poor, non-Western and not-us.
All successful ideological principles have some real-world utility, and the pragmatic advantage of theoretical universalism lies in the high-low alliance. Politicians, particularly on the Left, secure their power by cultivating clients at the bottom of society, to whom they promise some of the vast wealth and privileges that have been accumulated by the middle. In earlier generations, they could form these alliances with the native working classes, which explains the political importance of labour movements. As Western prosperity has increased, however, our own workers have identified increasingly with the (Right-leaning) middle of society, abandoning their client roles. Many of our countries have further obliterated their native political clients by outsourcing industrial production to overseas trade partners like China. Changes at the bottom portend changes at the top, and so there ensued the near-total transformation of the Left. Old workers’ parties like the Social Democrats in Germany have entered a long era of terminal decline, with new fashionable Green parties rising to take their place. The latter have a different agenda that looks beyond workers to address problems like climate change and the dangers of nuclear energy, but in the end this novel focus did not free them from their hunger for low-side allies. Lacking native disadvantaged peoples, they have elected to import foreign disadvantaged peoples instead.
This, I think, explains a great deal, and resolves many of the problems with the labour-shortage thesis. It explains why the hurdles to citizenship have to be lowered for our new arrivals, although this is far from optimal for our pension-plan funders. It also explains why the borders cannot be closed even as the migrants have proven that they will never solve our demographic problems.
The migrationist vision is maddeningly short-sighted. Migrants will bankrupt the welfare state before they ever fund our pension plans, and massive changes at the bottom of society will most likely wipe out the Left as we know it – however many election cycles establishment politicians hope to win with migrant support in the meantime. In Germany, the rise of Alternative für Deutschland has caused some in the centre-Left establishment to wonder whether mass migration is such a great idea after all, but as with all policies, this one has a terrible inertia behind it. A formidable body of jurisprudence now mandates open borders and makes rejecting asylees essentially impossible. The establishment parties have filled with rabid migrationists, and they have entangled themselves with a wide array of refugee-promoting philanthropic enterprises and NGOs. Social entitlements paid to migrants have become an occasion for a new kind of self-perpetuating corruption, funding an international migrant-smuggling industry that has in turn developed its own symbiotic relationships with migration activists and politicians. It is a massive mess.
As with everything else our managerial states do, migration has become an end in itself, increasingly independent of any real purpose. We welcome migrants because we have developed complex bureaucratic procedures, systems and incentive structures that are designed to welcome migrants, and because all manner of careers and funding are now premised on the project of mass migration.
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Surely once you’ve got them in the kill box you don’t let them out. “Of course you can stay. Just have this nice jab. Don’t worry it is safe and effective.”
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/an-ungodly-alliance/
Somewhat related – the left and islam, otherwise known as useful idiots.
We in the UK have Bliar to thank for the destruction of this country. Evil, treasonous bastard.
David Starkey’s electrifying 40 minute lecture 10 days ago, (Youtube), ‘We Are About To Elect A Government Nobody Voted For,’ lays the blame for the coup de gras in the trashing of the Constitution firmly at Blair’s door from 1997 onwards.
Thanks for the link.
Yes but we should ask the current handwringers this —“How many people do you think can comfortably live in this country? 80 million,90 million,100 million? Are you happy that there will soon be no room to swing a cat in this country? (Someone else’s cat, not mine). Do you give a hoot about British traditions and culture as you allow floods of people from all corners of the globe with entirely different cultures, many who despise ours to enter here? Where are all the houses to come from, assuming all these millions will need one to live in? Do you seriously think you can create infrastructure for another 10 million people in a short space of time? And why do you want to? Are you aware that population growth in the UK is 5 times the EU average? We are now the most densely populated country in Europe. Your own governments figures estimate 130 million by the end of this century, and by then white people will be the “ethnic minority” in what used to be their own country and the “global majority” will outnumber us 3 to 1. ———Do any of you handwringing parasites even care about any of this?
Mass immigration
-destroy national identities
-destroy nation states
-destroy white civilisation
-destroy Christianity
-destroy the ties of blood, soil, culture
All part of the plan. All coordinated. Not a single formerly Anglo country is exempt, neither is Europe.
Yet I don’t see the idiots advocating mass invasions into say China, Japan, Musulman states, Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico…..
And the towns and villages will eventually be no sanctuary. This will effect the middle classes, so many of them were in favour of mass immigration because it makes them feel nice!
Yes it’s all going to plan , they stopped Hitler to give us this
Yup, in the last 2 years my very nice west country town has started on the process of being “enriched.”
Yes, indeed. The white flighters can run but they will not be able to hide.
No is the answer !
The die was set in 1972 when we joined the Common Market (EU). It’s all been downhill since then.
“You might have noticed that mass migration to the West is a huge problem”. ——-But a huge problem for who?—— I might think it is a huge problem, many on this website might, 3 quarters of the population might unless they are silly people like Amy Michel Turner. But what do UN bureaucrats think? What does the WEF think? What do or own lackey political class think? —–One man’s “huge problem” is another man’s “Everything in the garden is rosie”
Totally onboard with what Imtiaz states here regarding Islam and so-called ‘moderate Muslims’. Also a 2min vid of this Israeli lady on what the support of a ‘Palestinian State’ actually means;
”There’s an Egyptian saying, “First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.” It means Muslims deal with the Jews, then the Christians.
The so-called “moderate” Muslims don’t have a theological leg to stand on. Islam is not moderate.
They differ only in the methods used to achieve those ends. There are a small number who not only do not support the Islamic hyenas but have often risked their lives by speaking out.
They’re a tiny fraction of a metastasizing gene pool that’s spread far too wide to be considered benign to civilization.
Freedoms like freedom of speech are a good thing among civilized people.
When a group that worships hate uses freedoms to propagate hate and supports killing and will not change, then these people need to be ejected from freedom-loving countries.
Even the so-called moderate Muslims will give money and support to the radicals who kill Jews and Christians; their religion requires this from them. And when push comes to shove the moderate Muslims will kill Jews and Christians too.
There is no such thing as “moderate Islam,”
President Erdogan of Turkey, who is a neo-Ottoman and practicing Sunni Muslim, said that such statements about “moderate” Islam were an offence to Muslims; he went on to say that “Islam is Islam and that’s it!”
The prophet himself said that waging jihad of the sword was so important to Islam that it ought to be considered the sixth pillar of Islam, and if a believer perishes while engaged in it, he is taken directly to paradise.
Christians and Jews are not the only ones targeted; anyone who is not a Muslim is considered fair game – and the Hindus, Buddhists, and others have also felt the Islamic whip down through the ages.
The single largest act of genocide in history took place in what is today the Indian subcontinent circa 1500-1550 when the Islamic Mughal Empire slew an estimated 50 million Hindus and other infidels.
Angela Merkle wanted Germany to become a member of the EU and she hated her own country. She bullied her people in favour of having Muslim Jew Haters over Germany.
Eventually, the parasites will outbreed the natives to such an extent that they can elect unassailable Islamic governments who will proceed to apply the same rules to imbeciles.
Israel is NOT on Muslim land. Muslims are squatters on Israel’s land. Those “Palestinians” are South Jordan and Egyptian squatters and they have no right to own any land in Israel.
The moral to all this is that it’s time for nations to deal with the Muslims, not as a religious community but as a political one, and as a belligerent community at that.”
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1793922657915715821
Hear, hear.
Outstanding comment. Have you noticed this new leftist catchphrase that is all the rage among the open border Progressives? ——-“Global Majority”. They are using that instead of “ethnic minority” to stuff mass immigration down our throats
Maajid Nawas is one of the moderates and has been a beacon of common sense during the Covid psyop, and I often quote him as well as Mark Steyn who has written many books critical of Islam. They had an interview once about mainly Lockdowns; could’ve been a bit tasty on the subject of Islam LOL. I respect him as a man, but despise Islam.
Israel is NOT on Muslim land. Muslims are squatters on Israel’s land. Those “Palestinians” are South Jordan and Egyptian squatters and they have no right to own any land in Israel.
Oh, is it not? It was conquered by Muslims from the Romans in the 7th century AD and has, minus the crusader states intermezzo from 1098 – 1291 AD, been part of different Muslim states until the Brits conquered it towards the end of the first world war and said Brits chose to create a Jewish state to be populated by immigrants on this territory.
[Image shows the Ottoman Empire in 1914]
Looks like that’s factual history you’ve quoted so why so many downticks
So if it became muslim territory of various muslim states by conquest over history, why was it not British territory by conquest from the Ottomans?
And why then could the British not gift it for a Jewish state?
After all large parts of Europe became parts of the Soviet Union by conquest from the Germans in 1944-45. None of the Allied leaders contested that but it was agreed.
The nazi regime, aka ‘the 1000- Reich’ lasted a mere 12 years.
izlam has been imposing its oppressive fascistic political ideology around the globe for the last 1400 years. That it did not get a stranglehold on Europe was down to courageous European rulers and warriors repelling attempted invasions at the cost of their lives.
That we do not formally celebrate and honour those historical sacrifices is no real surprise. The dire ignorance displayed by idiot politicians referring to izlam as the ‘Religion of Peace’ after 9/11 and various other terrorist attacks cannot and should not be forgotten.
Millions died in WW1 & WW2 to protect our freedom, yet our blockheaded politicians have been endangering that freedom by blithely allowing the mass immigration of muzlims since the end of WW2. Their birth-rate exceeds ours alarmingly, but no government bothers to do the maths or come to the obvious conclusion that we will be outnumbered by people from an alien cult at some point in this century.
There are 500 mosques in London (now a captured city) but still these self-entitled, disrespectful people choose to bow their heads to the ground in the environs of Westminster Abbey and other Christian sacred sites. They exploit our democratic systems to gain power, but do not themselves believe in democracy, only conquest and the power to achieve global domination.
At what point will those whose duty it is to protect this country, its people and our way of life wake up to the clear and present danger, and DO something about it?
Or are the lot of them just a bunch of vile traitors being paid off?
Excellent article by Eugyppius, who asked us to respond. The reason the elites have treasonously opened the Gates of the West to mass invasion from the Third World is simply to destroy western civilisation, and the Ethnic Europeans who built it.
See the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”, the “Frankfurt School 11-Point Plan”, and the “Coudenhove-Kalergi Project”.
Here are some of today’s comments from ordinary people on this subject:
Legal net migration fell by 10 per cent last year but it’s still at 685,000 – as graphic shows which countries the most arrivals came from | Daily Mail Online
—“The rich have dual nationality (Sunak will go to USA, Boris has links to south of France (?) and USA, Mogg has links to Ireland). They are pumping out UK and fleeing abroad. They will leave a Mad Max situation behind.”
—“I’ve had several periods out of work during the last 20 years, only to find that my new colleagues, who were all immigrants, when I did find work had been working all the way through these periods at jobs that I was qualified for. I am a software developer, and 95% of the people I have worked with since 2000, have been immigrants. It is extremely rare to join a company and have any British team members at all.”
—“These figures are not exact. The illegal entry through the ports and overstaying when flying in is off the scale, the Home Office cannot handle the numbers. The Home Office have closed most of their offices, and staff are working from home with few resources.”
—“Does anyone remember when we the British people gave our government a mandate to culturally destroy our beloved country? I certainly don’t. What makes me sicker is that they, the government, then label those who oppose their vile actions as Racists or Fascists or Extremists. These are dark days, and it is evident that We the People, not just here but also across Europe, have had enough.”
—“I feel sick with worry for the younger generation of British people. What chance do they have in lawless Briton, where people who tick boxes will get jobs over us, where foreigners will get priority over those that have actually paid in to the system, and these people hate everything we stand for? Why should British people pay to keep the worlds low life?”
—“I know how you feel. I have three decent and gentle kids. I fear for them, too. Everyday I fear for them.”
—“It’s not only the Tories. In fact this is actually stemming from the authoritarian Left that seeped into the whole infrastructure of the country from Blair’s government onward. Tories are not really Tories anymore. Its not the rich’s fault. They are as against it as all of us. It is not a social class issue. Its an agenda by a Socialist style ideology. Two parties are merely puppets for a Global hierarchy.”
—“The system for counting exit visas, only introduced at any level in the last few years, is described as ‘experimental’ and ‘still developing’. They have no clue how many are actually here or how many came.”
—“India, get rid! Want to run all the shops and garages but don’t care to integrate into British ways, rude and arrogant.”
—“Still spinning that net figure based on half a million leaving. That is just bogus. They don’t know how many left. Nobody says “That’s me away and never coming back”. The gross figure is nearer the truth and that truth is frightening. The Blob is a Timber Equine now. They are herding them through the gates.”
Yes, and once again the solution is to shrink the state.
We can shrink it or watch it collapse.
Great article. The Kaiser Bauch YouTube channel is very informative re. all things demography and immigration, for anyone that’s not seen it.
Mark Steyn dealt with all this fourteen years ago.
You can still see it….
https://www.steynonline.com/14332/the-end-of-the-world-fourteen-years-on
Mark Steyn has had his considerable intellectual foresight tuned to world demographics for many years ! What a Man
“You won’t survive for very long if you can’t control what enters you”
Ain’t that the whole point. Globalists need to break the Nation State. Promulgated by a late EU official and seems to be the agenda of the Open Society Foundation.
It’s to completely FU-K the western world up ! There you go , Answered
Why would governments of the western world want to completely FU-K the western world up?
They are doing a good job of FU-KING the western world up, so you must think they are very competent in achieving their aim, whereas it looks to me like they are very incompetent. Do those clowns in government really look competent to you?
Elites love immigration – pushes down wages and divides the natives to stop them getting uppity.
Every government since WW2 to my knowledge has presided over increased immigration. Just a cockup. Who was it of Blair’s lot who said it was about rubbing our noses in it. US Democrats are replacing the electorate to assure themselves perpetual power. Merkel wanted a million Africans. Just a cockup.
Every bad policy carried out by governments is not either cockup or conspiracy, It’s often just bad policy for selfish reasons to benefit certain people in society, such as the Democrats policy on immigration, and they may either not care if it’s bad policy or not know it’s bad policy. They may convince themselves it’s good policy, and it’s often not clear what is good policy and what is bad policy. In the cases where they know it’s bad policy, but don’t care, for their own corrupt selfish reasons, they still aren’t trying to FU-K UP western society, they just selfishly don’t care enough if their policies FU-K UP society, but they’d prefer that they didn’t FU-K UP society, they’d prefer their corrupt policies would be popular and get them elected again, it’s just not their main priority.
It’s true there’s not always a grand, over-arching ideological aim, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a conspiracy. There does seem to be a good element of hatred of our civilisation that is common though – something I find puzzling.
Adverse consequences of immigration don’t affect elites and they don’t care about us or their civilisation. Do 3rd world despots care about ruining their countries? Why would ours be different if they think they can get away with it- which they are!
There’s a difference between western governments not caring ‘about us or their civilisation’ – which happens a lot – and deliberately trying to FU-K UP western society – which doesn’t happen at all.
“which doesn’t happen at all”
In your opinion. Others beg to differ. I can’t pretend to know what the true aims are, if any, but I find it hard to come up with alternative explanations.
You cannot create a One World Government, run by a small cabal of self-appointed Elite, without first destroying national cohesion.
The people orchestrating it knew that first the Anglosphere and then the other western democracies would have to be destroyed by mass immigration.
Peter Sutherland, UN Migration Chief openly said “the EU should do its best to undermine the homogeneity of its Member States by encouraging more migration and greater multiculturalism.”
Mass immigration is about destroying nation states; money and control.
“Mass immigration is about destroying nation states; money and control.”
Too bloody right. Great summarising sentence. I would add “perfect for unelected EU bureaucrats”.
The pensions argument is not a logical one, the vast majority of the “baby boomer” generation have paid for their pensions, sucessive governments have squandered it, as for migration, lets put it into perspective, they are not migrants, they are illegal gimmigrants, with no intention of working or intergrating, with regards to the so called “boat people”, how exactly can they have found £8/10.000 if they are persecuted or destitute in their “own” land?, this situation is going to end in civil war, and not just this country, europe as a whole is facing a very dire situation, full of people with hatred for the west.
The white minority might have to seek asylum in Greenland or Iceland.
“this situation is going to end in civil war, and not just this country, europe as a whole is facing a very dire situation, full of people with hatred for the west.”
We have already seen knife attacks and murders including in France using a truck to run down and kill French people.
It is only a matter of time before someone puts other lethal weapons into the hands of some of the Palestinian protestors in London and other British cities.
What the Serbs did to the muslims was genocide but we are starting to see what the motivation may have been – self-preservation.
There is a general assumption that logical understanding must be optimal or intelligent, but its motivation is the pursuit of efficiency. We are free to think and thought has myriad options, but it isn’t meaningful. It is an efficient system of representational meaning that grows in efficiency. The outcome is not the meaning thought about, but the total status of the informative process, as we see from the rollout of AI. Anyone searching for lost meaningfulness has to ” come to their senses” and reclaim proportionality, which has no time for process.