As immigration continues to top the list of British voters’ concerns, Prime Minister Andy Burnham now believes he has found the magic pill: forcing relatively well-off, homogeneous parts of the country to accept a higher share of new arrivals. Far from solving the problem, this plan will only spread misery around.
Stating that everyone needs to “play their part,” Burnham announced that newly arrived migrants will increasingly be placed in wealthy, homogeneous areas — leafy suburbs in southern England as of yet untouched by multiculturalism. The southeast village of Piddington, with a population of 400, is set to receive upwards of 1,250 asylum seekers, immediately turning the village into a majority-minority area. In response, villagers are planning a symbolic referendum on leaving Britain and joining the United States.
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