WHEN peace, serenity and prosperity in our society takes an unexpected turn, and our kindred civilisation detours from its road to a utopia with a safe, fulfilling and free social surrounding, we all jump to blame the perceived culprit.
The communists blame the bourgeoisie and their capitalist greed. The capitalist blames the softy socialists and their rapid and ill-educated social change and the ignorant blame immigration.
Although with great epistemological scepticism on my behalf, I am told that many anti-immigration followers are neither white supremacists nor racists, despite the English Defence League's recent displays.
But in fact many are just confused, being misled by shoddy economic values, false promises and the repeated scapegoating of the rabble-rousing right wing media.
I would like to go straight onto the anti-immigration economic arguments. However, in light of recent events, it seems appropriate to lay out my deontological framework and moral feelings to why this summer I am ashamed to be a white British citizen, and to why I feel sick in my stomach, at seeing a large rise in support for the brutish, barbaric, vicious and manipulative nationalist in England.
To me, pro-immigration starts with a fundamental absolute and this is that all humans are born equal and it's our own actions which differs us from one another. As humans, whether Greek, Polish, English or Palestinian, we have certain unalienable rights described in a doctrine by Locke as rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness something which is statute and universally accepted in our western lives.
Yet, the nationalist have set ontological pre-conditions of their own, their mind set is that, through religion or incompetence that British flesh and blood makes them more superior to anybody else and British people and only British people, have the right the pursuit of happiness, because you are born here and "deserve" the grandeur, luxury and fruits of the UK compared to other "non-British" human beings.
The claim put forward by these "political parties" tends to be "they took our jobs".
For me if you can be challenged so heavily for work, then compete. You have no sovereign rights over anyone else.
If somebody can come out of the depths of economic despair and has a greater passion and drive for work, fulfillment and personal prosperity than you, so be it, be challenged in your workplace.
Do not waver to forms of feudalistic nepotism and meritocracy and force corrupt, immoral borders to entry and deprive someone of their human rights.
Now to bin the endlessly recycled garbage that is the anti-immigration "economic" arguments. Not enough housing, not enough jobs, strains on services and the claim that people come here and live on benefits without contributing to the country's economy.
Firstly, according to research by the university college London, EU migrants pay at least 30 per cent more in taxes than they take out in benefits.
Secondly, jobs are not fixed. Use your common sense, they alter to aggregate demand and scarcity of labour. Adding to this point, there, in fact, will be a lot more jobs if there was greater immigration. The burgess land use model shows those cities develop and grow from the centre. Greater immigration grows the city faster. Ensuring growth and the creation jobs all across the board; for primary, secondary and tertiary sectors.
The market alters and gets more confident; it can then successfully grow and invest till a new equilibrium is met. Boosting the UK's economy, international competiveness and of course increasing tax revenue.
The final comment made, is the strain on services such as the national health services. Now, to pay for immigrants in the UK to have free health care, it cost £1 billion, a lot it may seem. Quoted by the right wing as a "huge burden". But let's look at some other statistics. The NHS spends £2 billion a year on alcohol-related patients and £5 billion, five times the amount spent on migrants on smoking-related patients.
So shall we start prohibition again, outlaw smoking or even start petrol bombing off licences? You know what, I'm starting the anti-beer, baccy and crumpet party, bloody burdens!