Even if the population decreases you get more sprawl. In Germany where the population decreases the local councils panic and build new estates, industrial parks to attract more people. Its all about power. The more people you have the more money you have. Every little village and hamlet aspires to be a big powerful London. Even here in Switzerland there's sprawl. When everybody has one house then they want two, or they want a new football stadium, industrial estate etc. Then there are the property developers; like here in Switzerland they just build and build and sell them to foreigners who appear once a year. I imagine in 200 or 300 years there won't be any green spaces in Europe left just derelict land in the cities.
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Why immigration spells the end of the green belt
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My first look at a thread on this site. what the hell has this got to do with contracting? However the text of this thread probably contains the highest ratio of cr*p/ascii character I've ever seen.Comment
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**** Off Then
Originally posted by cakewalkMy first look at a thread on this site. what the hell has this got to do with contracting? However the text of this thread probably contains the highest ratio of cr*p/ascii character I've ever seen.I'm Spartacus.Comment
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Originally posted by cakewalkMy first look at a thread on this site. what the hell has this got to do with contracting? However the text of this thread probably contains the highest ratio of cr*p/ascii character I've ever seen.Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.Comment
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Originally posted by cakewalkMy first look at a thread on this site. what the hell has this got to do with contracting? However the text of this thread probably contains the highest ratio of cr*p/ascii character I've ever seen.
But don't let this small fact stop you from being le coq du jour...If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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The government stay in power by virtue of keeping large numbers off the population on benefit and dependent upon welfare. This of course has the effect of removing the availability of low cost labour and thus creating inflationary pressures on the economy. So immigration is their answer as it enables them to maintain their power base whilst overcoming the shortage of workers.
I have never understood why working is deemed to be so bad for people that so much money is spent in stopping people from work when so many researchers state that work leads to happiness and that work empowers people by giving them a sense of achievement and bestowing them with aspirations.
Remove welfare except for people with serious regressive health problems, enable workers to move more freely to where work is by encouraging the rental market. Dismantle worker protection laws, apply these rules accross Europe. Instead of immigrants we will have a a mobile work force that will enable companies and workers to move to where there is space rather than crowd London and the South East of England.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn.
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Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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