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So I would like to have my 0.5p worth. It is after all my blog. Ready?
I would like to see the removal of all borders, worldwide. Work and live where you want. Whoever you are. From wherever you are.
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You can now pick yourselves up from the floor, dust yourselves off and pay attention.
I am a human being and have exactly the same rights as any other human on the planet. I will defend your rights and I expect you to do the same for me. Let us analyse my above statement.
I could live and work in New York, Monaco, Switzerland, Bermuda, New Zealand, Honolulu. I wouldn’t need a visa, permission, status or State patronage. I wouldn’t need a passport or an ID card. I am simply me, living on this planet, doing as I wish.
That is freedom.
Of course, if I couldn’t find a job in New York or Bermuda, I would not expect one single penny from my fellow citizens. If I fell ill, I would expect my insurance company to pick up the tab from the premiums I have paid. If I cannot afford suitable housing (such a problem with a large family in Monaco), I would not expect other citizens to build me one at their cost. I would not expect other citizens to pay for the education of my children and I would not expect them to pick up the tab for my unemployment.
I’ve heard arguments that London would just turn into one huge shanty town full of millions of Africans and Kurds, ready to chance their luck. Wrong. The reason so many immigrants want to storm the barricades is because we pay fellow citizens to do fuck all. We house the, feed them, clothe them, pay their bills, pay their health costs and pay for their education. That is why they want to come here. Not the weather, the quaint English customs or the warm beer. It is simple Darwinism. If they head for the land of milk and honey, they will not starve.
Remove the milk and honey and they will stay put. No one claims asylum in North Korea because they do not offer it. When we stop offering milk and honey to the world, the world will sort itself out.
Immigration would be based on talent and skills. Without it, the journey would be wasted. You don’t need to legislate for it. Just let those unable to thrive wither and perish. Our industry would flourish with the finest brains in the world, regardless of the passports they were forced to carry. Our minimal tax system would see entrepreneurs flooding here to invest. Our bone idle underclass would vanish. Our feckless would prefer to chance their luck on the Costa del Sol rather than freeze and starve in the North East. The Caribbean would become a warm, relaxed easygoing option (it already is actually) and education would once more have a real value to change lives and be treated with respect again. Intelligence would be seen as a passport to health, wealth and happiness again. Wisdom and the opinion of elders would once more be sought to avoid costly and potentially life threatening mistakes by underlings.