An Examination Of The Logic of Multiculturalism
A recent report from Migration Watch UK spelt out the lunacy of Priti Patel’s new Points-Based System (PBS) for immigration. Far from curbing mass immigration, the new policy is likely to, and one assumes is intended to, multiply it. More dangerous still, is that the immigrants will be mainly drawn from the Third World and so will be less likely to assimilate.
Migration Watch UK point out:
‘A key factor determining the practical impact of the new Points-Based System is the size of the pool of eligible workers abroad. Our estimate, using cautious assumptions and based on a range of data sources, is that the pool might contain well over 600million people. Even the possibility that it is of this magnitude means that for policy the matter should not be shrugged off as a “known unknown”.’
And:
‘The new PBS weakens UK work visa rules for citizens of 80% of countries around the world. An April 2020 Home Office impact assessment states on p.27: “The potential supply (or pool) of eligible non- EEA labour (under the new PBS) [is] unknown.” However, a range of data sources exist from which the potential size of the non-EEA pool can be estimated, and any estimate of likely movement resulting can be further informed by the precedents of previous UK labour market “door openings”. The size of the global pool of young adults outside the EU educated to at least secondary level in the top 15 Tier 2 source countries is near 600million. And near 80million EU citizens too.’
These figures are truly staggering. Next, Migration Watch UK compare the size of the pool with the size of the populations of Eastern Europe and the scale of immigration produced:
‘Just under two million National Insurance Numbers (NINos) were issued to young/prime-age adults from the Eastern European countries in the first five years of unrestricted entry. The first wave comprised over a million from the EU8 countries to which the UK opened its labour market in 2004, and the second saw 900,000 from Romania and Bulgaria to which the UK opened its doors in 2014. This amounted to over 5% of the relevant populations in these countries coming to the UK and taking the time and trouble to obtain a NINo which is a necessary pre-condition for working.’
Therefore, the risk of the PBS proposals poses is:
‘To come to a range of the order of magnitude of people who might in practice seek to come to the UK, and to take account of the fact that the 5% figure also includes those who went into lower-qualified work and shorter-term migrants, one might expect a rather smaller proportion, but even if movement occurred at only a tenth the rate of previous EEA arrivals (i.e. 0.5% overall of the underlying pool), it would point to potential supply of 700,000 workers per year under the core PBS proposal.’
An immigration rate of 700,000, in addition to all the other sources of mass immigration, is serious enough. But what if the rate is not ‘only a tenth the rate of previous EEA arrivals’? What if it is the same? Or half? The English would be faced with the certainty of being reduced to being a minority in England within a decade.