“We will not save refugees by destroying our own country. Actually, we cannot do what we like with this country. We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged. We cannot just give it away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves… Thanks to 1000 years of uninvaded peace, we have developed astonishing levels of trust, safety, and freedom… I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away… Mass immigration means we adapt to them when they should be adapting to us… So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as generosity, are we going to abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and estate go to ruin? I can see neither sense nor justice in allowing these things to become a pretext for an unstoppable demographic revolution in which Europe merges its culture and economy with North Africa and the Middle East. If we let this happen, Europe would lose almost all the things which make others want to live here.”
Peter Hitchens
British Author
