Rod Eddington's scheme for road pricing sounds more like road rationing.
Circumscribed by a desire to reduce not just congestion, but emissions, what is missing is a mechanism for increasing supply in accordance with demand - i.e. a roads market.
December 05, 2006
What Britain Must Do To Stop Immigration
The UK government has said that long term immigrants to Britain will have to pass tests in English language and the British way of life.
So you might think the government has concluded that immigrants need to integrate and not live in their own closed communities? With the implication, perhaps, that large-scale immigration poses risks to Britain?
And yet the most substantial immigration is currently from the EU's Eastern European member states, especially Poland. A recent estimate is that maybe 10,000 East European immigrants arrive each week at London's Victoria coach station alone: half a million each year for the last three years, with no sign of a let up, and with Romania and Bulgaria about to add to numbers when they join the EU on 1st January.
No citizens from EU member states can be compelled to learn English or take a test on the British way of life (for what that is worth).
The government has no intention of stemming the tide of immigrants deluging Britain, whatever harm immigration may cause: to do that Britain would have to withdraw from the EU.
So you might think the government has concluded that immigrants need to integrate and not live in their own closed communities? With the implication, perhaps, that large-scale immigration poses risks to Britain?
And yet the most substantial immigration is currently from the EU's Eastern European member states, especially Poland. A recent estimate is that maybe 10,000 East European immigrants arrive each week at London's Victoria coach station alone: half a million each year for the last three years, with no sign of a let up, and with Romania and Bulgaria about to add to numbers when they join the EU on 1st January.
No citizens from EU member states can be compelled to learn English or take a test on the British way of life (for what that is worth).
The government has no intention of stemming the tide of immigrants deluging Britain, whatever harm immigration may cause: to do that Britain would have to withdraw from the EU.
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