There’s a very interesting piece over at The Critic magazine written by Alex Yates. It speaks of how the public is getting more and more angry about excessive levels of and inappropriate types of migration and how the Government’s response to this anger is not to deal with the problem but to repress the Briton who objects to migration.

Alex Yates writes about how the world has changed. Ordinary Britons can now clearly and easily discern the difference between what the Government tell the people and what the reality of things are on the ground. The article goes on to say that nothing the Government says about issues such as migration or Net Zero has any basis in reality. For Net Zero we can see that Britain has not become the ‘Saudi Arabia of renewable’ and for immigration its now quite obvious that importing masses of often incompatible people has not improved Britain’s economy.

The Critic article is well worth a few minutes of you time reading but this part in particular stood out for me.

Alex Yates said:

“There is no plan. When politicians bovinely repeated platitudes about immigration being great for the economy, or net zero creating a boom in new jobs, or that benefits are only going to those truly in need, they are not doing so to trick the public whilst they have a clearer-eyed view of the issues: they really believe it. Politicians of all stripes really do want the small boats to stop arriving, even those on the open borders end of the spectrum who wish migrants would arrive by safer and more regular means. But they are stuck clinging to the dogmas crafted before they were born, and due to a lack of imagination and courage, are unable to move beyond those dogmas to a political order befitting this political age.

They have inherited a set of institutions, welfare commitments and international treaties forged in the post-war era that are manifestly unsuitable for our current era, yet the task of moving beyond them and creating something new is proving too great. The task, after all, is a great one: to reimagine what the British state’s duties are, and to whom it has duties; to navigate a new international order that no longer functions through clear rules and institutions; to create a new economic model that no longer runs on seemingly cheap but ultimately deeply costly foreign labour; to define new national identities, and decide which of those the British state is in service to.”

In my view the author is correct. There’s no plan to make things better only platitudes followed by suppression of public disquiet. The political classes are clinging to dogmas and to international treaties that are now, because of changed circumstances, agreements out of their time. The world that these treaties were established no longer exists but our political classes act as if they were. My own view is that the Post WWII international order centred on international agreements and treaties is almost completely dead now and it started dying when the Iron Curtain came down starting in 1989.

Our political and administrative classes are incapable of recognising that the world has changed and lack the skills to fashion a response to those changes that primarily benefits Britons. Things will never get better until countries like the UK get better, more high quality politicians and there’s little sign of such people in politics at the moment.

Link

Article from The Critic by Alex Yates.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-state-can-do-things-when-it-wants-to/