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That was actually a very interesting article that I hadn't caught yet.
Thank you for posting the link.
However, the reason I am in this thread now is that the 'discussion' very definitely veered off-topic into personal attacks.
Folks, take a breath, step back, and please discuss the topic on its own merits in a civilized fashion.
Quite a number of assertions were made here without information to back them up. If you feel so strongly about a particular viewpoint or bit of data, please have the courtesy to post information to back up your viewpoint, including links to your sources.
I am addressing just about everyone who participated here, so don't anyone feel like I'm scolding you personally.
Let us all please keep our sense of humor.
That said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6109230.stm
Sir Andrew Green of pressure group Migrationwatch UK, said he believed the current rate of immigration was not sustainable.
"Even at the present rate it's still well above the Government's assumption for the future and that assumption would mean that we had an extra million people every five years," he said.
Danny Sriskandarajah, a migration expert with the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank, said that the figures should neither surprise nor alarm.
"The challenge for policymakers will be to make the most of increased mobility, not pander to reactionary opinion by trying to curb flows."
I've had to read through quite a lot of the viewpoints expressed by Migrationwatch (UK and otherwise). While some of their data is interesting, the extrapolations and so-called ''logic'' that follow from their highly selective data sets color a picture that is quite distorted toward their personal viewpoints and agendas.
The sort of logic and ''debate'' expressed by this organization is not the sort of place I would like to see this forum become.
In either direction for this particular debate.
I'm leaving the thread unlocked for the time in case folks wish to discuss the subject on-topic.
Please note that there are several links at this article and *.pdf files with more details. I'd be quite pleased to see some of those points debated here.
I am hardly a top-end immigration expert myself and I am reading, studying and (hopefully) learning each day.
So. Less hysteria & hyperbole. More information, sources cited and civilized debate. Please.
That is all.
Please play nicely.
The Admin