Immigration

As a government, your job is to serve the people you govern, who are forced to pay tax for you to do that, above the interests of those who you don't govern and who don't pay tax for you.

Therefore, for example, if you let someone into the area you govern, it has to benefit the people who live there, which means considerations of infrastructure, security, and social cohesion must be satisfied, such that life is made better for communities that are taking immigrants.

Particularly if immigrants are let in and served by the use of tax money, you have to be sure that it will benefit the taxpayer, given that they don't even pay tax voluntarily.

"Benefit" firstly means effect on health and safety.

If you want to serve the interests of those abroad, which you do, then you do that not by importing problems, but by exporting your lack of problems.

Otherwise, you are importing infinity problems relating to the governance of other places.

Is it racist to say that there are organised Russians doing bad things to Ukrainians? No, it's not, and many people want to support Ukraine because of it.

Is it racist to say that there have been organised foreigners doing bad things to natives in this country? No, it's not.

People organise based on shared characteristics and then they might do bad things to people with different characteristics.

It's not as though only white people are capable of being racist.

All that money spent on housing migrants in hotels should be spent on drones to watch where illegal migrants land on the coast, so that they can be arrested and jailed for breaking the border. It's a dangerous world out there. If you want a safe country, you've got to play it safe, and assume that not everyone around the world is kind and considerate. If everyone around the world was kind and considerate, why do we have a military?

It's not as though the only threats to the country are from state actors. Why do we have police?

So, come on guys, if people disrespect the rules and the proper procedure for coming here, they should go to jail.

France is a safe country. There's no need for them to cross the channel from France. They should know they're breaking the law, and one way to teach them that they're breaking the law is to jail them. Then they'll stop coming (and drowning), when we stop rewarding them.

I'm not pro or anti immigration. Anyone who thinks "for or against" is an idiot.
I'm pro good immigration, anti bad immigration.

If someone wants to move here, you have to look on a case by case basis what they offer the country and what the people will like, and why they want to move here.

The whole "labour shortage" or "declining population" thing is a stupid reason to have more immigration. There is no good reason why you can't have a stable or growing native population, when you have non-idiotic social systems, including the education system.

Anything is possible when the state stops being an idiot. Population decline is not an inevitability outside of cultural and political control, and we know that because there are countries which have internally growing populations.

Wow, Kemi, you used four brain cells! Congratulations, you are not brain dead! Now let's see what happens when you use even more!