It’s hardly a surprise if 700,000 people came here.
If you can’t afford housing, transport, services upgrades then it wasn’t such an economic benefit in the first place
FelisCantabrigiensis on
Remember that net migration is affected by the inability of young people to move to the EU for work – they’re stuck in the UK instead.
clbbcrg on
It’s more to do with the declining birth rate but don’t let that get in the way of your trash headline
Fart-Pleaser on
Yeah but….
The largest increases in population growth are likely to come in the older age groups; by 2041 it is expected that there will be over 3 million people aged 85 or over – more than double the number that there are today.
That’s why we need high immigration, the Telegraph’s of this world have no answer for that, in fact they don’t even mention it. Lowering immigration will not create a utopia, quite the opposite.
PrrrromotionGiven1 on
1% annual population growth is completely sustainable regardless of the source of it in a serious country that builds infrastructure at a pace faster than “glacial”
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Good thing we’re totally expanding housing and public services by 1% each year…
Looking at the [ONS table](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/annualmidyearpopulationestimates/mid2023#:~:text=There%20were%2016%2C300%20more%20deaths,had%20more%20deaths%20than%20births.), it’s interesting that the negative natural change (births minus deaths) is largely driven by Scotland and Wales, both England and NI have more people born than dying. Also, looking at the internal migration figure, about 31,000 people moved from England to Wales and Scotland.
It’s hardly a surprise if 700,000 people came here.
If you can’t afford housing, transport, services upgrades then it wasn’t such an economic benefit in the first place
Remember that net migration is affected by the inability of young people to move to the EU for work – they’re stuck in the UK instead.
It’s more to do with the declining birth rate but don’t let that get in the way of your trash headline
Yeah but….
The largest increases in population growth are likely to come in the older age groups; by 2041 it is expected that there will be over 3 million people aged 85 or over – more than double the number that there are today.
That’s why we need high immigration, the Telegraph’s of this world have no answer for that, in fact they don’t even mention it. Lowering immigration will not create a utopia, quite the opposite.
1% annual population growth is completely sustainable regardless of the source of it in a serious country that builds infrastructure at a pace faster than “glacial”