Thread by @LizWebsterLD

‘Population Matters’ with patrons: David Attenborough, Chris Packham, Jane Goodall said in 2013 that 🇬🇧 should accept no refugees from Syria.

Britain they believe is full. Neighbouring Arab states ought to deal with the problem.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

Population Matters has long called for “zero net-migration” to 🇬🇧 “one in, one out” - a position more extreme than the BNP. There was also a suggestion that child benefit/tax credits should be scrapped for third and subsequent children.

Malthusian arguments have been used to justify brutal policies ever since the British civil servant responsible for Ireland, Sir Charles Trevelyan, wrote that the great famine there was an “effective mechanism for reducing surplus population”.

At this time when our food security is being diminished by Brexit, how can any environmental argument be used to allow our food production to be off-shored? Then people disturbed by war refused entry to 🇬🇧 and our international aid slashed.

populationmatters.org/our-patrons