When will we ever close the doors? The population of the UK is now 61.4 million people (as of mid-2008) and is currently increasing at the rate of 500,000 per year. Perhaps you knew this already but did you know that out of those 61.4 million bodies, 51.5 million of them live in England? The remaining 9.9 million humans reside in Scotland (5.2m), Wales (3m) and Northern Ireland (1.7m). Couple this data with the fact that most people are concentrated in the lower half of England and you can see what I’m getting at…England is going to explode!
Population increase can be caused by a number of things: increased longevity, higher birth rates and immigration. But that’s not my point. It doesn’t matter what the cause is, we’ve got to stop it sooner or later. This small plot of land can only handle so many people. Our roads are choked solid every day and trying to walk the streets in a busy city is harder than an SAS assault course.
When is the last time you were alone? I mean REALLY alone, with nobody else in sight. No cars, no people walking dogs, no voices, no sounds of civilisation. Under your duvet at night doesn’t count. I’m talking about open spaces. Exactly, they don’t exist anymore. The last time I experienced that situation was in the western isles of Scotland in the middle of a 16 mile walk through forest. That’s a few hours out of my entire life that I have truly been alone. Of course you might not like the thought of being alone. But it’s nice to have the option.
I recently visited Iceland. The country has roughly the same land area as the UK but its population is 300,000. That’s right, 300,000 people. And most of those are living around the capital city of Reykjavik. They’ve got everything they need… beautiful scenery, clean air, empty roads, unpolluted water and virtually no crime. Last year I was in Norway. They have a population of 4 million in a large land area and it’s the same story as Iceland (clean air, empty roads, low crime etc).
All this government can see are the supposed economic benefits of a large population. Yes, we need more workers to pay taxes to contribute towards our pension shortfall but those workers will also get old one day and we’ll have to invite yet more people into this place to cater for them and so on.
You’ve got to call a halt sometime so I say do it now. Shut the doors, encourage responsible family sizes and improve quality of life.
And before you tell me to stop complaining and b*gger off to Iceland, I may do just that when my circumstances allow.
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Can I come too?
Well, you highlighted a problem but you don't really have any solutions.
We can't close the doors because we are members of the EU.
I would also like to point out that Norwegians actually came over here (Vikings- remember from your school history lessons?) because what little fertile and arable land they had could not sustain their population.
Britain, on the other hand became the richest country in the world with a huge empire and people, therefore flocked here.It has always been a magnet for people wanting a better life.
So if you did stop people coming in how would you look after the older generation? What alternatives do you suggest - a cull? euthenasia, just leave them and have survival of the fittest?
And how do you encourage people not to have children? Adopt China's one baby per family? What would you do to people who had more than one?
What other solutions do you envisage? Enforced migration to the Scottish Highlands and Wales?
Invasion of Iceland?
Incidently, there are plenty of places where you can be alone, there are plenty of country walks, the U.K. is covered in footpaths.
Well for a start we could close our doors to every Tom Dick and Harry that wants a free meal ticket,The only reason they come here for so called refuge is because of our social security system,not because they want to live here!
We need to be more like Australia and offer countries that insist that people are either self maintaining or have something to offer, ie Nurse teacher engineer.
"We can't close the doors because we are members of the EU."
Exactly, so we should leave the EU altogether. 1 million pounds every hour leaves the UK coffers to feed this monsterous quango. The EU is ruled by the Germans and French who help make the rules and then break them at will. The UK keeps to the rules and therefore gets walked over every time. Only the poorer countires in the EU have anything to gain. Why do you think the Turks and numerous ex Soviet states are begging for entry? Because it's hand out time, money for free and as much investment as they can handle. Not only that, their citizens can then b*gger off to any rich EU state they like to be looked after and fed for nothing.
I agree that free trade within Europe should be encouraged but that should be the end of it. No immigrants, no spongers, no Spanish fishermen, no 568ml glasses of beer instead of a pint, no Euro, no ECB to dictate our interest rates and no human rights law for the criminals to abuse.
Just think what we could do with £1 million per hour... new hospitals, better roads, smaller class sizes, no 3 year waiting list for a dental appointment and better housing and equipment for our forces that are fighting in Afghanistan where the French are too cowardly to tread in significant numbers.
Perhaps this £1 million per hour could be spent on our older people whose pensions have been destroyed. Then we would all be better off and our doors would remain sealed against spngers and freeloaders.
......so using your criteria we would never have let in Michael Marks (who went on to start Marks and Spencer, or the Ugandan Asians who took refuge from Idi Amin.Almost every one of the them went on to start successful businesses from nothing. they were all refugees.
But you would still allow those from the EU eg. Romania to enter the country because they don't even pretend to be refugees? Or, under your system would we have to come out of the EU in order to implement it?
No, what I am saying is that we are now at the point where we simply have too many people and something needs to be done about it. What do you think we should do? Just let more and more people onto this island until it sinks? It's going to happen no matter what people say. The EU is expanding and all these poorer countries joining the EU will be full of citizens looking for a better life elsewhere. Where will they go? Yes... the good old UK.
Yes, we've had some great people come over here and make a success out of themselves but you're using the same old argument that the government uses... economics. So what if they're respectable people who build successful businesses, they're still people and they still take up space. Every one of them needs a house and most of them will marry and have kids. And before you know it we'll have someone typing a blog entry in 2020 complaining about the UK's population of 70 million people. And on it goes until we have no option but to take drastic action like China's 1 child per family rule.
Why wait until chaos arrives? Do something now. The longer you leave it the worse it will get and the harder it will be to solve.
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