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I'm glad to have helped.For my own confirmation, Himmy/Bloomer.
By the way, what did it confirm. Just for my own curiosity.
I'm glad to have helped.For my own confirmation, Himmy/Bloomer.
You understand the objective is to reduce the number?It's called being proactive. Soggy cornflakes again?
The number of boat people and illegals. Of course that's first on the list.You understand the objective is to reduce the number?
I think it could be part of an answer.And you are still convinced opening a lovely processing centre to make it much easier for people to apply, possibly even encouraging them. is the answer?
For all those who welcome the inward migration;
Clearly this can't go on indefinably,
My mate from Newham was telling me this morning that in the local paper it said that 3.9% of the population of Newham (which works out to around 15,000 people) only entered the country in the last 12 months. We're filling up and filling up fast.Labour is promising to build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years (which is not really enough to keep up with inward migration, we would need 1,750,000 new homes for the migrants).
Of course not. We need a grown up policy on managing immigration and all its implications.Clearly this can't go on indefinably, but may be you think it can?
15,000 engineers and doctors - that must be fantastic.My mate from Newham was telling me this morning that in the local paper it said that 3.9% of the population of Newham (which works out to around 15,000 people) only entered the country in the last 12 months. We're filling up and filling up fast.
What is your 1,750,000 new homes based on?For all those who welcome the inward migration; in the long term how sustainable do you think it will be?
Labour is promising to build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years (which is not really enough to keep up with inward migration, we would need 1,750,000 new homes for the migrants). But think about it Greater birmingham (coventry walsall, black country etc) has 1.2 million homes, so if inward migration continues our urban sprawl will be creating a new Greater Birmingham (with all its hospitals, factories, shops, prisons, roads, parks, the whole infrastructure that 1.2 million homes need ....) every 5 years.
Clearly this can't go on indefinably, but may be you think it can?
Migration will increase beyond all known parameters within the next 20 years due to climate change.It is not a case of "welcoming" (although, in the absence of our government investing in developing our own, only an idiot would not welcome a cancer or heart specialist, as an example): but a case of accepting migration as an inevitability.
Indefinitely?
That goes without saying.
However, the world keeps changing so, whatever you think can't be accommodated in 20 yrs' time, for example, might well be manageable in 20 yrs' time.
Newham must be a popular tourist destination.My mate from Newham was telling me this morning that in the local paper it said that 3.9% of the population of Newham (which works out to around 15,000 people) only entered the country in the last 12 months. We're filling up and filling up fast.