Reply to: Immigration is a good thing...

[Fleetwood]

9 months and counting

Did it 16 years ago...

[Fungus]

Europes population is in decline. *

Birthrates are falling and the population is aging rapidly. *

21 of the 28 countries in the world with the fastest declining populations are in Europe and Britain is one of them. *

By
Discuss.

<grabs tin hat and runs for cover>
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It would help if they got their facts right, and up to date. It used to be true that net immigration was small, and due to declining birth rate the UK population would remain static or shrink.

However, for the last few years net migration has been running at about 150K per year , largely due to Eastern Europeans. Estimates are that the UK population will rise to about 70 million from the current 60 million in the next 10 or 20 years (I forget the exact figure).

And don't forget that the Eastern Europeans are largely Catholics, and that traditionally poorer Catholics had huge families. (Look at Ireland and Quebec 50 years ago.)

PS: 'Bye', not 'by'.

[Joe Black.]

What, Perth has a more temperate climate?

[Troll]

Actually yeah Sydney has a big Lebanese population that cause probs. I live in Perth so it's cool.

What, Perth has a more temperate climate?

[sasguru]

PS. I'm getting out soon so it's not really a problem.

Bloody immigrant!

[wendigo100]

By 2050 there will be 100 people of retirement age for every 65 people of working age. *

* Assorted sources including discussion on BBC radio 4 this morning concerning making IVF treatments free to boost the population.

Actually it is 35 people of retirement age for every 65 of working age.

[Joe Black.]

I thought Oz has similar problems...or were the riots on the beaches about something else?

Actually yeah Sydney has a big Lebanese population that cause probs. I live in Perth so it's cool.

[Troll]

I thought Oz has similar problems...or were the riots on the beaches about something else?

[Joe Black.]

The only problem is Australia has now got an influx of English people. They come over to Oz, open up corner shops and nobody understands a word they say??

[DimPrawn]

9 months and counting

[lORD lUCAN]

PS. I'm getting out soon so it's not really a problem.

5 months and counting...

[DimPrawn]

Doesn't mass immigration just cause the need for even further immigration?

We all get old and import millions of young immigrants to look after us (wipe our bums etc). These immigrants have children and themselves get old, requiring more immigrants to look after the 1st lot. This goes on until Britain grinds to a halt (not long now) due to infrastructure, housing and energy/water limitations.

Madness.

PS. I'm getting out soon so it's not really a problem.

[lORD lUCAN]

That's because people are leaving to get away from all the immigrants...

Exactly, well said.

[Mordac]

Last month I drove through Bradford to see an Aussie mate living up there and I did not see one single white person in the entire town. And the place was a sh*thole. At the end of every street was a big pile of rubbish, crap everywhere.

It's not just Bradford...

[Joe Black.]

From an aussie perspective I think the UK's immigration policy needs to be addressed. Immigration is fine as long as the immigrants are going to contribute soimething to the country/community they are emigrating to. The problem I have experienced in England is that immigrants arrive here move to an area and basically take it over pushing out English people and create their own mini-somalia or whatever. They cannot speak English, they have no skills, they come from war torn countries where life is cheap and they have different morals and ethics to English/European people. You do not want these kind of immigrants, Last month I drove through Bradford to see an Aussie mate living up there and I did not see one single white person in the entire town. And the place was a sh*thole. At the end of every street was a big pile of rubbish, crap everywhere.