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UK population is to increase beyond 70 million in the next 12 years
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Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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The UK population is to increase beyond 70 million in the next 12 years, official projections suggest.
The Office for National Statistics said the population was expected to increase by 4.4 million in the next decade, before reaching 70 million in 2027.
That increase is roughly the size of the Irish Republic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34666382
We already have a serious housing shortage, severe pressures on some public services, congested roads and see many of our towns and cities continually expanding to gobble up the surrounding countryside. How on earth are we going to cope with several million more people.
I wouldn't worry too much. There was a piece on Radio 4's 'PM' which explained that official projections of population have been pretty consistently completely wrong. In the 1930s they were predicting that our population would fall to less than 20 million and we wouldn't be able to run the empire, the fifties predictions missed the 1960s baby boom and according to predictions from the eighties we were supposed to already be beyond 70 million by 2001. Its best guessing the future and there are far too many contributing factors for anyone to have a clue. I don't know why its being reported as news. Its no more news than the Daily Star trying to predict who is going to win the league.
cjd
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Improving public transport in Brighton would not help traffic congestion on the A27, A24 & A23.......stupid boy.
Yep, no one person living in these tents......at least two in tents. Wigwams in the countryside, near rivers.... children named after the first thing you see when you open the flaps when the newborn arrives..... like Morning Cloud or Running River or Two Dogs Shagging............
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Wrong.
Try and tell me Brighton, Crawley, London, Birmingham, Leicester, Leeds, Croydon and scores of other towns and cities haven't changed over the last 20 to 30 years.
I didn't say for better or worse, but they've certainly changed.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Correct. 800,000 empty houses in the UK.
looney
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Unless you can either explain how you will stop the expodential growth in chain immigration and/or where it will all end you are suggesting we concrete over the countryside.
looney
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closed shop LB ,"NO OUTSIDERS IN THIS VILLAGE THANKS"
regards
DR
Your not from round here are you?
looney
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Soif what you say is true thats another bucket under the leaking pipe then?
Crispy Ambulance
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When you say 'the first thing you see when you open the flaps when the newborn arrives', would Umbilical Cord be a contender?
Pretty pink fairy
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looney
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I name this child "Worried looking sheep pursued by Welsh Sheppard"
So i think most agree that the roads and infrastructure and housing are not good enough NOW. So surely it needs to be improved for those that live here now before we let in millions more.
Definitely, or Red Head.....
JC Footy Genius
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Agree that long term forecasts have many variables making them unreliable but I don't think you have to be a statistician to work out that having net migration running at hundreds of thousands year in year out will drive population growth. According to this non Daily Star source .....
Projections become less reliable as the length of the projection period increases. However, over the last 50 years, the ONS have been accurate to +/- 2½% in their projections over a 25 year period.[9]
In 2014 the UK population was recorded at 64.6 million. The ONS project that if net migration runs at 165,000 per year the population will rise to 70 million by 2028 and 60% of this growth is due to immigration either directly or indirectly i.e. the children of future migrants.
However net migration is currently around twice that level. Over the last 10 years it has averaged 240,000 a year. if it continues at that level the UK population will reach 70 million in 2023 and 80 million by 2046.
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/bogus-arguments
We do have something to worry about unless we can regain control of our borders.
Mental Lental
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I love it when I read claims that Britain is overcrowded.
Makes me laugh.
Makes me laugh.
pastafarian
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I love it when I read claims that Britain is overcrowded.
Makes me laugh.
The waiting lists for social housing are now at zero are they?
sydney
tinky ****in winky
major reforms to welfare system and nhs needed......i'm sorry but the welfare system is being rorted by millions and needs overhauling so as the 3 or 4 million new arrivals do not simply sign on and start breeding meal tickets , in monetary terms the budget is turned over every 3 to 4 weeks, that means that all revenue collected by govt. is redistributed within a month, if the nhs is to survive then cuts will have to be made elsewhere......it's all very well saying this or that isn't good enough....roads and houses don't build themselves and it is patently unfair to expect one portion of the community to be perpetually supporting another.
one solution would be to properly tax big business but is that going to happen from a tory govt....
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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Or able to think beyond the simplistic