Reply to: Why BTL will never fail in the UK

[d000hg]

When stek's Dad said it, before we were all hyper-morbidly obese, adults needed 2 square feet, and toddlers less. 1 square metre contains 10.764 square feat, or 5.382 people, so we could squeeze in just over 2 billion, the world population in, er, 1927.

You've been to India and China? Or you're so provincially small-minded that to you westerners are all the people there are?

[unixman]

You shouldn't believe him
The Isle of Wight is 380 square kilometers which is 380,000,000 square meters
Assuming that there are 7 billion people (It may already be 8 billion or more) and they all would need 1 square meter each, you're 6.62 billion square meters short (or 17.4 Isle of Wights)

BTW the smell would be horrendous 3 people dying every second and all the human excrements accumulating

When stek's Dad said it, before we were all hyper-morbidly obese, adults needed 2 square feet, and toddlers less. 1 square metre contains 10.764 square feat, or 5.382 people, so we could squeeze in just over 2 billion, the world population in, er, 1927. Conclusion: Stek is old.

[d000hg]

Or one FatLazyContractor per 4 sqm

But people can stand on top, like a bouncy castle of sorts.

[Eirikur]

Why do they need 1 square meter each? I reckon you could cram people into 1/8 of a square metre

Or one FatLazyContractor per 4 sqm

[d000hg]

Why do they need 1 square meter each? I reckon you could cram people into 1/8 of a square metre on average... 2 billion Asians are on average pretty small and kids are too - or could be held by parents.

We only need 2 IoW.

[Avalonia]

The only way we could get concessions is if we threatened to leave and meant it. Dave and his fellow ' conservatives ' are hopeless Europhiles . He will fail

[Eirikur]

My dad once told me you could fit all the people in the world on the Isle of Wight and still have room to spare.

Mind you, he also assured me spaghetti was made from worms....

You shouldn't believe him
The Isle of Wight is 380 square kilometers which is 380,000,000 square meters
Assuming that there are 7 billion people (It may already be 8 billion or more) and they all would need 1 square meter each, you're 6.62 billion square meters short (or 17.4 Isle of Wights)

BTW the smell would be horrendous 3 people dying every second and all the human excrements accumulating

[d000hg]

We live in a country where people move to France for the quality of life! I wonder if the fact that France has 105 people per km whereas England has 419 people per km has anything to do with it?

Or perhaps it's the wine, the cheese, the warmer weather, etc... people have been moving to France for decades. If you want to live in the quiet countryside in the UK, you are spoilt for choice. So many exceeding beautiful areas.

he is wanting to renegotiate open borders with he EU then have a vote.

It is a reasonably sensible approach to the problem.

This will NEVER happen

Why? Everything is up for negotiation, if you have something the other side wants. The EU doesn't want the UK to leave... look how much fuss they are making about Greece leaving and they are useless.

[ZARDOZ]

MigrationWatchUK | Latest Immigration Statistics

Notice the highest immigration ever under our "tough on immigration" Tory overlords.

We can't be that far off a big epidemic all the signs are there for large transmission:

Mass immigration
Overcrowding in cities
Disease resistance to vaccines/ Re-emergence of diseases presumed to be controlled

It's going to happen just a question of when and how big

[d000hg]

Yes, 0.5% doesn't sound like much does it?
Or we could say, approx. 6% of the population of Scotland, 10% of the population of Wales, or 16% of the population of Northern Ireland. Sounds a tad higher then.

Or how about twice the population of Brighton? Or a tad under the population of Cardiff?

Or even, nearly 8 times the population of the county that I live in?

Sounds a bit bigger then doesn't it?

Thing is, you can convert any number to a percentage of something else to make it fit in with your own viewpoint but all that happens is that, whilst you get a slap on the back from the other left wing "let them all come and be given succour" types for showing things as they "really are", you actually just make yourself seem just a little bit of a tit.

It's not to fit to any viewpoint, the relevant statistic is net migration to the UK so the comparison is against existing UK population. Not the population of Wales, the number of girls who have laughed at your penis, or the number of pens you can stick up your nose at once.

% growth is the important metric, not absolute numbers. If all the immigrants move to the same town, that is relevant. Just as it would be if all the emigrants left the same town.

[DimPrawn]

Also, thinking about it, it's only certain areas of the UK that are overcrowded, where I live it's not crowded at all.. :-)

Is that because no one wants to live there?

[gables]

Also, thinking about it, it's only certain areas of the UK that are overcrowded, where I live it's not crowded at all.. :-)

[Avalonia]

he is wanting to renegotiate

This will NEVER happen

[Flashman]

he is wanting to renegotiate open borders with he EU then have a vote.

It is a reasonably sensible approach to the problem.

Makes sense to the Tory party. Everyone else in the EU? Stupid Brits again. Freedom of movement is a fundamental right in the EU.

[Flashman]

According to the papers we also have the highest growth in Europe, the best healthcare, etc, etc. So what even if we are the most crowded - someone has to be and that doesn't mean it's something to be avoided intrinsically.

We live in a country where people move to France for the quality of life! I wonder if the fact that France has 105 people per km whereas England has 419 people per km has anything to do with it?