So this seems to make sense to me.
Open borders would suit industry, farming, social and healthcare and probably lots of other sectors because it would mean there was a consistent supply everywhere of people available to work for the lowest wages. That wouldn’t seem beneficial to me for those on minimum or low wage in countries with a higher standard of living such as the UK. And I don’t know what it would mean for a country to have a minimum wage- that surely wouldn’t be feasible. Or a welfare state- how would that even work?
So aside from the utopian ‘we’re all the human race’ kinda perspective it seems a dangerous idea to me?
Then
Spymaster point that you’ll create massive political unrest and a drive towards the far right if you answer concerns about immigration with more/unlimited immigration. That needs to be considered.
So the ‘open borders’ thing, if I’m honest, seems nuts to me as anything other than a utopian left view, or utopian free-market/ free-migration right view- but maybe I’m wrong??
And if I’m not wrong- and it is nuts- how do we limit immigration. What rules do we as a nation apply? We seem to need workers across the spectrum- unskilled (eg fruit picking), skilled (eg care work, welders), professional (eg doctors, nurses). And in all areas of the UK. How do we meet that need with immigration? Should it be met with immigrants? Is there an alternative?