As Iain Duncan Smith,
writing in The Times(£) this morning says:
“After leaving the EU, we will be able to assess who we welcome to this country based on whether they have skills the economy needs or if they are genuinely fleeing persecution. A talented young engineer should not find it nearly impossible to take up a job in Britain just because she has a Malaysian passport rather than a Latvian one. The current unsustainable situation is not openness, it is eurocentric insularity.”
Our current immigration policy is discriminatory. Anyone can come in from the EU. For those from the rest of the world it is much more restrictive. To call the existing policy racist would be an exaggeration. There are plenty of EU citizens from ethnic minorities. There are also plenty of white people in the rest of the world who are discriminated against – from Australia and the United States and so on. Nevertheless overall it is pretty obvious. The open door largely applies to those with white skin. The restrictions largely apply to those with brown, black or yellow skin.