Pro-EU peer Lord Kerr says UK needs migration because Britons are 'stupid'
November 18, 2016 at 4:24 am
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/...ritons-ar/
Quote:A Europhile peer has provoked outrage after he claimed Britain needs intelligent migrants to come to the UK because "native" Britons are "so bloody stupid".
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard is the peer responsible for writing Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which gives any EU member the right to quit unilaterally.
The former Secretary General of the European Convention told an event yesterday that the Leave campaign only won by "cleverly outsourcing xenophobia and racism" to the Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
He also insisted that the arrival of migrants was a "good thing" and kept Britain running.
The cross-bench peer blamed Brexit on David Cameron’s "disastrous" commitment to keep net migration at under 100,000 a year.
Peter Lilley, a Eurosceptic Tory MP, walked out of the talk after claiming Lord Keer showed "contempt for ordinary British people."