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'Completely open borders are inevitable,' predicts UK Labour's John McDonnell
UK Daily Mail ^ | Jan. 31, 2016 | Tim Sculthorpe

Posted on 02/01/2016 2:54:43 PM PST by Rennes Templar

Completely open borders allowing unfettered migration around the world are 'inevitable', shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed today.

During an interview about the migrant crisis facing Europe, which could see more than a million people try to cross its borders this year, Mr McDonnell said the movement of people around the globe would render border controls 'irrelevant'.

The shadow chancellor, a crucial close ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said conflict, poverty and climate change would drive mass migration of people around the world.

He told the BBC Sunday Politics: 'The movement of peoples across the globe will mean that borders are almost going to become irrelevant by the end of this century, so we should be preparing for that and explain why people move.

'In our policy making, as politicians, we should be working now to see how we address that because it will mean that we need to look at how we resolve conflicts, how we make the world more equal and also how we tackle climate change. In that way in that way we can deal with the reality of the world which means that people aren’t forced to move but there will be movement.'

Pressed on whether he meant totally open borders, he said: 'I think at the end of this century that’s what will occur. We’re seeing people ignoring borders already as they fly from Syria.'

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jeremycorbyn; johnmcdonnell; labour; labourparty; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: the scotsman

Ouch.

Interesting.


41 posted on 02/01/2016 6:33:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Completely open borders allowing unfettered migration around the world are 'inevitable', shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed today.

If this is inevitable, so is civil war.

42 posted on 02/02/2016 12:05:20 AM PST by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. Wonder why is he winning?)
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To: Travis McGee

What happens when the invading Orks meet up with the Gloks?

43 posted on 02/02/2016 11:38:25 AM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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