I am sure over-population is indeed a serious issue, but the idea that Britain can only sustain forty million people is ludicrous. For a start, we’ve got sixty-odd million at the moment, and we’re sustaining them. We do this by importing whatever we can’t grow or build at home from abroad, that same way that every developed nation does. So what we’re left with is an argument that we should restrict immigration on the basis of various ill-defined effects that it is meant to have on the UK.

See Is Global Warming a threat because of overpopulation?.

The high risk of a murderous effect of population expansion is obvious. It will kill new British Citizens as much as those who have great-grandparents who were British. Given that Britain can only sustain 40 million people climate change may eventually kill 30 million of our grandchildren.

How can anyone argue against the precautionary principle of not increasing the population unsustainably.

What Dave said, completely agree.

In any case, I’m not a multiculturalist; I’m a socialist. I don’t believe that open borders will solve our problems; I believe that solving our problems will lead to open borders.

The links above have been corrected; the bad link was simply me reading around other comments the former Archbishop had made on the same subject.

In Britain we believe(d) that enlightenment is an iterative process akin to diminishing deception if you like. (Natural justice)

This country’s common law, common decency, common cause, common courtesy and common sense are all based in the knowledge we ain’t perfect but that we should pursue improvement through lessons yet to be revealed by means of the resolution of conflicts at law or by consensus as they arise. The historical ratchet effect. When we are confident that we have established a principle (Magna Carta et seq) agrred by all in our unrepealable adaptibe monoculture we make it unrepealable. Hence our culture adaptsd to absorb incomers. Any subsequent law may only improve on the existing law or the existing law shall apply.

All was well for centuries. Even before democracy grew by males getting the vote the industrial workforce of cities like Leeds was one third Asian or African origin.

BUT then came the post WW2 period and the sociologist (now desperately trying to ban the word “Multicultural” to be replaced with the word “Intercultural” as they arrogantly yield all too slowly to the wisdom of centuries with which they should never have tampered.

WE copped the multicultural “Experiment”. Always unlawful. Admitted by the sociologists themselves to have failed when the Lozells riot rubbed their pseudo-academic noses in their own folly.

And what the multicultural experiment has delivered is a sectarian society. Ask anyone hereabouts in a city like ours with a large muslim population.

An indigenous people who believe that they pursue improvement by resolution and revelation become host to a large immigrant opulation who believe they have a book of the 6th century that has all the answers already.

The multiculturalist believes, as an act of ill informed faith, that all cultures are of equal merit within one land. Yet hypocritically they seek to reject some cultures (such as BNP) as “Odious” or “Racist”. In other words the multiculturalist is a hypocrite who would be God to judge which cultures are acceptable and which not and to turn a blind eye to faults in some cultures lest he be hoist on his own petard as the ultimate racist (the multiculturalist)

I really thought I was hearing things when Carey was quoted on the news. Utterly racist and reactionary. And what a surprise the Torygraph blog spouting the same reactionary ideology. But I doubt if Carey gives a damn that his bile has spewed forth ‘naked racism’ from other…

“I hope he will not forget the importance of Christian identity at the very heart of being a part of the United Kingdom.”

Is it? Is it really? What is so wrong with having a secular society and not one where one faith reigns supreme over others. Carey is such a reactionary bigot.

Here endeth the rant!