Mass immigration is a cure worse than our demographic time bomb
by Rob Slane, TCW:
Once in a while politicians say something interesting. However, rare as such utterances are, unfortunately most of the really revealing comments get drowned out by the slurry of media commentary focusing on really important things like what trousers someone is wearing or how someone eats a bacon sandwich.
Last week saw such an occasion where something revealing was said, and it was almost universally ignored by the media. It occurred at a conference in Malta, and the one making the comment was the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. Now I wouldn’t normally pay much attention to anything that the EUHRFASP says, but on this occasion what she said was deeply interesting:
“I believe Europeans should understand that we need migration for our economies and for our welfare systems, with the current demographic trend we have to be sustainable.”
Now this is interesting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, and very briefly, it completely puts to bed the absurd conspiracy theory, proposed last year by Nato’s then supreme allied commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, and repeated ad nauseam by the same folks who cry #FakeNews to everything that challenges their narrative, that the migrant crisis was a dastardly “weaponising” plot by the Russian and Syrian governments to destabilise the EU. It always was a mind-bogglingly stupid suggestion, for the simple reason that it required us to somehow forget that the migration crisis actually began after Nato action in Libya. But Mrs Mogherini’s comment shows that far from EU officials struggling to cope with the destabilising effect of “migrant weaponisation”, they actually welcome it as a necessity.
But what is even more fascinating about the statement is what it doesn’t say. It mentions the “demographic trend”, but says nothing about why this demographic trend exists. So let’s help Mrs Mogherini out. She could have gone on to say:
“The reason for this demographic trend is two-fold: firstly, tens of millions of citizens in EU countries have been killed in the process known as abortion over the last few decades, and secondly, Europeans in general have decided that having children is a really bad idea and so have a fertility rate of 1.58 live births per woman, which is well below the generally accepted replacement level of 2.1.”
Of course had she decided to say that, she would not now be the EUHRFASP, and that’s because you cannot tell such truths in such jobs and remain in such jobs. Yet it is the truth, is it not? I defy anyone to tell me that the demographic trend in European countries is not a result of:
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