Apparently he is concerned about Britain's special relationship with the USA, which is strange. I thought the special relationship died last year when the Commons refused to back the evil warmonger Cameron in waging war on Syria.
He is concerned also about nuclear weapons, even though they do not exist.
He has also argued that the USA would not forget or forgive Scotland for seeking independence. That could be construed as hypocrisy, given that the USA fought the British for independence in the eighteenth century. Maybe the USA will bomb Scotland into submission if it votes for independence. I wouldn't put it past them.
Norman Lamont served as a cabinet minister under John Major, and has now spoken out about immigration. While a lot of what he says is quite reasonable, I must point out a few flaws in his argument. He begins:
For years, those
who dared question the policy of mass immigration — including this
newspaper — were shouted down as reactionary or plain racist.
Has The Daily Mail ever questioned the policy of mass immigration? It may occasionally make an issue about immigration, but only to try to boost circulation. Norman Lamont was a minister in the government of John Major when Derek Beackon was elected as a councillor in Millwall in 1993. Beackon was elected on a platform of opposition to immigration, but his election was not welcomed by the British government. In fact he was subject to a lot of victimisation, but he did not receive any support from the evil government of John Major. I'm not aware that The Daily Mail gave him any support either.
Lamont concludes that to dismiss justified public concern on this question as nothing more than bigotry or xenophobia is to play into the hands of genuine extremists.
Lamont does not explain what he means by the word extremist, and neither can he. The word is after all meaningless.
In short, Lamont's essay can be summed up as follows:
Immigration harms Britain, but nobody must ever be tolerated in saying so unless they don't actually want to do anything about immigration or the problems it causes.
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