but without immigration, Uk will have a super aging population and be consigned to the dustbin of history. Already, the numbers of brits leaving for Spain and australia are enormous
AGREE Of course, that's done for a reason. Slow motion culture bomb. Radical Muslims in the UK and France, a perfect example. Third-worlder's bring a third-world mentality wherever they go. Fuck their hosts. Take whatever they can. Many new immigrants feel morally vindicated from colonialism, slavery, or past wars. Eh.
Many of the first generation North Africans came to Western Europe by invitation because there was a shortage of workers. They integrated relatively well before their numbers grew and ghetto's were formed. Regardless of the negative effects of immigration considerable parts of the economy today still run on an influx of immigrants. If you think Western europeaners have any desire to get up at 4 a clock in the morning to get up on rooftops in the cold think again. They don't.
The myth Western countries need a servile, immigrant-caste to perform menial jobs that would otherwise go unfilled, is really off-mark. A huge swath of the middle class is comprised of hard-working, blue collar-types - be at factories, trades, menial services or semi-skilled labor. I know PLENTY of white Canadians happily earning 20 bucks+ an hour, doing roofing. Many people enjoy working with their hands. Construction and road-resurfacing guys earn 50K+ a year, with 5 months off ! Many Westerners *prefer* to get their hands-dirty, so long as they earn a fair wage ! Nothing wrong with it. I agree about Africans (non-Muslim) integrating relatively well.
And that really encapsulates the entire (misplaced) rational behind open-door immigration: Declining population (somewhat true). Cheap labor. Western countries don't need cheap labor. And juicing the birthrate, isn't necessary. When incomes are the focal point and not population growth, GDP can still make strong gains despite a slowly shrinking population. That said, Government programs to encourage native births is a much preferable route then chain-immigrating third-worlder's who are often a net fiscal drain on society.
Achiles, Western Europeaners themselves don't have that much of a problem with cheap labour. They even embrace it given the widespread use of immigrant labour for personal benefit troughout the middle class. Western Europe's main issue concerning the immigration or no immigration debate really boils down to the simple unwillingness of 15 to 25 year old Northern Africans to assimilate. The kind of class struggle witnessed in the UK and the US between blue colar workers and the immigrants has been less of a phenomenon in Western europe because... Everyone here works for the government anyway!
LOL Well, Europe can have what they want. My argument, and the sentiments of many North Americans, endless chain-immigration of third-worlders corrupts the moral and financial underpinnings of the host. There's an agenda here. Politicians are not dumb.
I once lived in a place called Neasden in Northwest London, got my driver's license there, it's a piece of paper that said I am qualified to drive until I am 70 years old.