Britain is booming (and bulging at the seams)

[DimPrawn]

UK population will reach 80 million in, I think, 50 years. That's scary.

Just shows how good the UK must be compared to the desolate wilderness of the mainland.

[Bob Dalek]

UK population will reach 80 million in, I think, 50 years. That's scary.

[TykeMerc]

I will be willing to do my bit for the ones that aren't yet pregnant. For king and country...

Very public spirited of you.

[TimberWolf]

Don't forget our teenage single mothers. They're all doing their bit.

I will be willing to do my bit for the ones that aren't yet pregnant. For king and country...

[VectraMan]

Saved by immigration!

Don't forget our teenage single mothers. They're all doing their bit.

[snaw]

[url]

Saved by immigration! And BTL will be back in business too.

Haven't half of them gone home already, since the credit crunch?


Dooomed.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008.../population.eu

Britain will overtake Germany and France to become the biggest country in the EU in 50 years' time, according to population projections unveiled yesterday. A survey of demographic trends finds Britain's positive birth rate contrasting strongly with most other large countries in Europe.

The impact of population shrinkage, coupled with the ageing of key European societies, spells big problems for pensions, health and welfare systems across much of the union, says the report, published by Eurostat, the statistical service of the European commission.

But Britain, it says, is likely to suffer less because of its strong population growth and the younger average age of British society.


Saved by immigration! And BTL will be back in business too.