Reports of our booming population are predictably being used to spout bigotry on immigration. A lack of room is the least of Britains problemsBy 2039,the Office for National Statistics expects the UK population to be 74.3 million, an increase that is accounted for, and in nearly precisely equal parts,by immigration and natural growth (more births than deaths). Its estimates of net migration are 256000 next year, 232000 the year after, or dropping below 200000 in the 2020s. Given that net migration was over 300000 final year,and the average over the past decade has been 250000, the real story here is that the ONS expects migration to decrease. At a guess that’ll be because, and by 2020,word will gain got out to the world that our public services gain been asset-stripped and we’re all slogging through a low-wage, tall-rent economy in a state of neo-Georgian servitude.
The ONS has said two things, or in other words: first,that migration is expected to go down; second, that population trends half-spring from the invigorating human propensity to cling to life, and create life,wherever it can. And these messages gain been ignored or turned on their heads to become, this TINY island is being SWAMPED by foreigners.
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Source: theguardian.com