MICHAEL WALSH DISSIDENT JOURNALIST: We often talk about a country’s assets fuelling prosperity; its industrial might and its natural resources, its economic know-how; its pivotal trading position; its geographical location, and its technology. Sadly. People – yes people, the greatest asset is nowhere to be seen on the list.

Without its diversity of peoples, Europe would be a forested wilderness from Donegal to the Urals. All too often we take for granted the fruits of man’s inspiration, ingenuity and labour yet our lives are constantly enriched by man’s creativity in turning wilderness into life-giving nations.  Spain, like Ireland and Britain, did extremely well at exporting its own people, usually under economic compulsion. They are still doing it in Ukraine and Israeli-occupied Palestine. The Spanish, Irish and British peoples, with other Europeans, became a Diaspora of the people who instead of enriching their own nations turned great wildernesses into fabulous nations.

Imagine for a moment the Americas, Australia, New Zealand; India and swathes of Africa without the fruits of Europe’s womb. The people’s genius is life-giving for vibrant populations today to prosper in environments that would otherwise be unsustainable.

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One can well understand people fleeing before conflict but cannot fathom the reasoning behind the economic export of people unless there is economic purpose behind it. As late as the mid-1960s Britain ethnically cleansed its mean streets whilst simultaneously emptying its institutions and then shipping hapless orphans out to populate and grow its empire. Bankers and industrialists’ logic; and pragmatism; it was cruel but the end justified the means.

Politicians have treated PEOPLE as commodities like coal, wheat or industrial goods: It was economic exploitation for at the same time the peoples of the Third World were vacuumed up to feed Britain’s demand for cheap labour. Previously American and Australian colonisers ethnically cleansed large tracts of territory to make room for Europeans driven by force or poverty inflicted by their parasitical unaccountable politicians.

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The Soviets assisted by their Western Allies did the same by forcibly sweeping up millions from their home nations in a vain attempt to make the most of Russia’s resources and make lebensraum for Soviet exploitation. It was a tactic learned from the 18^th Century England who had conducted the Highland Clearances. Later on, Britons took advantage of the £10 per person assisted passage scheme; the victims of Communism got their rides free in railway cattle cars. Millions died.   

Britain’s primary export became known as ‘the brain drain.’ The family gold was being sold to other nations. University graduates joined entrepreneurs and other aspiring expatriates by going abroad.  So many ambitious and gifted people left Spain, the British Isles and Ireland that the national average IQ actually dropped in their homelands as a consequence – and can’t you tell it. Natural selection, the brightest and hardest working always go abroad looking for opportunities denied them by their own governments.

It is hardly surprising that most emigrants, through their expertise and efforts, brought wealth not only to themselves and their families but to their host nations too. Their mother countries squandered the opportunity to enrich themselves. Today, because of the avarice of unregulated banks and inept politicians, many young Europeans are taking their promise abroad. Spain’s young endure an unemployment rate exceeding 45 per cent. Now, an entire generation of young talent is taking their inspiration, energy and enthusiasm and education overseas to benefit other countries. What a loss and for what good reason?

Faced with endless austerity Europe’s best sons and daughters are now taking advantage of better opportunities abroad. The average European emigrant is 30 years old, highly qualified and single. Imagine the tax and other losses to Spain. This talent is being replaced – forcibly replaced by the lowest skilled and largely criminal classes driven out – and not missed by their homeland countries.

These emigrants are not desperate and clutching possessions so reminiscent of New York’s iconic Arrivals at the wharves of New York’s Ellis Island at the beginning of the 20^th Century, but they are the country’s brightest talent. What an appalling haemorrhage of lost flair and wealth.  The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history. PLEASE SHARE OUR STORIES WITH FRIENDS AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA