The obvious stares us directly in the face, but we’re too distracted to acknowledge it….

Leave a single lamp on in a dark room and all bugs flock to it. How about turning on several lamps in that same dark room?

The current rate of migration to the west is not sustainable. Not only because of the friction it is causing and resentment (be it fair or unfair), but for the simple reason that the infrastructure (schools, hospitals, housing etc.) required to ensure fairness and integration is simply not there. There is a very high risk that we are close to those awful situations where immigrants get blamed for everything…

There is a very obvious solution.

If we help end wars, conflicts, displacement of people in parts of the world where the majority of these migrants are coming from, and stop squeezing them for their debt, help industrialise their countries, create jobs, lift them up and make those countries prosperous, it will end the mindless draw to the west, that makes it so attractive to the point of mindless risking of lives of children in dinghies crossing the English Channel or trekking across deserts to get to America. But unfortunately, the same countries who say they are burdened by migration are the same ones who are reluctant to turn other lights on. They want global fiscal dominance. They want ‘America First’ etc. Well, if you succeed in becoming the only lamp in the room, the outcome, is what we have today; with so many risking their lives to come over. If we turn more lamps on…..

Just think of the possibilities….

No more drowning migrants trying to row across oceans. No more angry locals in the UK, Germany, US, France etc., a return of levels of immigration down to what we have the infrastructure to support and safely integrate…..

All at a much cheaper cost than what is currently being spent on deterrence that isn’t really working. A tiny portion of that expense could be put into rebuilding Syria and wherever else it is the migrants are flocking over from. Make the place safe, create opportunities and an environment they will not wish to leave or risk their kids’ life crossing the channel…

But we won’t do it. It’s too simple. We prefer the complex…