{Population and immigration}[15th March 1969]

[Redbook1:82-83][19690315:0000]{Population and immigration}[15th March 1969][Age 17]

Saturday 15th March1969

            The successful politician judges his allies and himself by their motives and his enemies by their actions.

            These are some of the things that I, from my layman’s point of view, think should be done by the government.  I shall, I hope, outline more of my views later.

            Population and immigration are closely connected, I think.  Firstly, as my father says often, the proportion of immigrants which a country can bear is about 10% or under.  What I don't think he realises is that this proportion, the proportion that can be suffered, is variable: it is inversely proportionate to the population [density?] of the area.  I have as yet no statistical proof of this, but I base it as a theory on the territorial instinct of Man, who becomes more violent the less space he has for manoeuvring in.  The whole question of immigration (and of student violence) is therefore tied in with town planning, etc. – i.e. the soothing psychological effect of running water, and the irritant effect of traffic noise.

            Short-term: All immigration should be stopped -- we are overcrowded enough as it is.  When we move into the Common market, of course, we will have to open our gates to European immigrants.  Meanwhile, the government should offer out-of-work immigrants incentives to return to their homelands i.e. free passages.  They should subsidise and encourage the movement of such immigrants into areas with a low quota of immigrants -- especially those with different coloured skins, who can be easily distinguished.  The government should also withdraw family allowances, with a maximum of publicity, over a period of c.10 years.  Contraceptives should be made available freely, and if necessary subsidised or put on the NHS -- how can we worry about [sexual] morality when our whole democratic way of life is at stake, as it is?  That measure should lessen the number of abortions.

            For the long-term, education must be carefully watched -- the key administrators must be integrationalists [sic].

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