tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post3267772611728771679..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: On the benefits of migration...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-37165943123504119962013-12-04T03:58:33.340+00:002013-12-04T03:58:33.340+00:00I wonder if what you say reduces places where peop...I wonder if what you say reduces places where people live their lives to 'things'. That bothers me. You can mess about with 'things' to your heart's content. I does not matter. But should you mess about with places where people live? By 'mess about' I mean 'experiment'. <br />Places like London evolve naturally, but such evolution should not be complicated by the dead hand of totalitarian Government. Certainly, some sensible planning restrictions should apply. For example, it would would not be sensible for houses to be built on swampy land. <br /><br />You do not say what precisely you mean by 'migration'. You could mean natural migration within the UK, or you could mean mass immigration, or, indeed, you could mean the migration of celebs hither and thither. Frankly, I am too ignorant of the facts to comment really. I hate the idea of my mind being influenced by propaganda, and so I shall say only this:<br /><br />NO!! I do not agree with the migration into the UK of people who hack our soldier to death on the street, nor of people who groom young, English, white girls for sexual purposes. But am I being influenced by propaganda? I certainly think that not as regards the first example, but perhaps it might be so as regards the second. As regards the second, such grooming might have been commonplace anyway for all I know. How do we know that these girls were not quite happy to have lots of sex? We do not know.<br /><br />But I have digressed. <br /><br />You yourself said that it is better that cities should be allowed to build an re-build over time without too much planner interference. I suspect that the same is true of migration (in the restricted sense as outlined above). <br /><br />Mass immigration is painful, even if it works out eventually. The mass immigration of the late 50s (to service the requirements of London transport cheaply) is a case in point. (Mr Marple's initiative, wasn't it?) <br /><br />The big problem, as usual, is that the State can act only in a totalitarian way. 'One size fits all' is the only way that the State can function. 'One size fits all' does not work (vis communism). Therefore, the less that the State interferes, the better. <br /><br />Recent evidence of this fact is the Smoking Ban. It has been a devilish intrusion into privacy and private property. The whole thing is based upon crazy ideas. The most important crazy idea one which is not much commented upon, and that is the idea that an unemployed person might refuse to take a specific job because he is afraid for his 'health and safety'. Erm ... What job does not have some risks? ALL jobs have risks merely because a person must step outside their home to go to the place of work. <br /><br />What do you notice? I have done precisely what Tobacco Control have been doing for years and years. I have gradually 'upped the anti'. <br /><br />The Conservative Party has been gradually infiltrated by Health Zealots. CHUCK THEM OUT! They are Health Zealots and not Conservatives. <br /><br />One must giggle. A conservative speaker at a conservative conference said that the conservative party is seen as the 'nasty' party. Since she said that, it has become accepted truth! SHE SAID SO HERSELF! <br /><br />To conclude, migration within the UK is normal and natural, but applies, generally, to those people who are 'upwardly mobile'. It does not apply to the poor. What would be the point of migrating to London to take up a job at the minimum wage? <br />There are parts of the UK which are depressed economically. If the State did not impose totalitarian edicts, these black spots might have a chance. Junican https://www.blogger.com/profile/03405543859782362078noreply@blogger.com