You’ll have your own views on the bias of this piece on immigration by Easton, but the main objection must be that it’s astonishingly silly. After careful study of his colour-coded maps, Easton has concluded that we can, after all, fit a few more people on this island without pushing the Cornish into the sea.
“The debate, it seems to me, is not ‘can we cope?’ but ‘how would a larger population change our way of life – for better or worse?’,” says Easton sagely. Am I alone in begining to suspect they think we’re a bit thick?