We welcome Cllr Tom Jones to the KCIII. Tom serves as the Councillor for Scotton & Lower Wensleydale on North Yorkshire Council and is also an accomplished essayist.

Cllr Jones joins Calum and Tom to discuss Anglofuturism, immigration reform, and how Britain can build a more productive, high-wage future:

• The origins and appeal of Anglofuturism as both an aesthetic and political movement responding to economic stagnation and declining living standards for young Britons
• Tom Jones' immigration paper "Selecting the Best" which argues Britain's reliance on mass immigration has created a low-wage, low-productivity economy
• How "human quantitative easing"—importing cheap labor rather than investing in automation—has damaged British productivity and wages
• The car wash industry as a case study where cheap migrant labor replaced automated systems, creating exploitation and environmental problems
• The need to redirect state capacity toward strategic priorities like energy, manufacturing, and defence instead of dispersing resources
• How greater automation and selective high-skill immigration could transform Britain into a high-wage economy capable of meaningful global influence

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Substack. Produced by Aeron Laffere.

Correction: At 44:30, Cllr Jones says dependents are mostly economically inactive. He has written to correct this, clarifying that while a significant portion are economically inactive, it is not more than half.

Selecting the Best: Building a Future-Focused Immigration System

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