Morality of immigration
Sir: Immigration has long been a subject which requires its own morality. Indeed, it reverses the principle that morality respects truth, and preaches a substitute morality in which obscuring the truth is laudable, while condemning the views of those who persist in seeking and speaking the truth (without which there can be no basis on which to form policy) as unrighteous. Dissent has for far too long been easily dismissed by the mis-use of the words 'racialist' and 'prejudice'.
There has never been a mandate for the creation of a multi-racial society, nor has the electorate been asked for one. The subject has been omitted from Conservative manifestoes since the promise of 1970 that future immigration would be allowed only in strictly defined special cases, with no further large-scale immigration. It may well have decided that election.
Whether or not the Conservatives will consider the wishes of what is clearly the majority, and so be democratic, or will persist in ignoring the issue we do not yet know. The evidence is that the party is more interested in the immigrant vote than in immigration policy. This may or may not be good for the Conservative Party, but it is unimportant in the context of the future of this country.
B. J. Kennedy 14 Tamar Avenue, Taunton, Somerset
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