Tories to REDUCE housebuilding...

purch

The seeds of the next boom are being sown today, mark my words

Well at least that has cheered up someone !!!

IveSeenTheLight

Generali wrote: »

To get the full picture you need to include migration figures which are not reliably kept by the UK Government.

Annecdotally it would appear that the is net emmigration from the UK at present reversing years of high net immigration. Annecdotes aren't data of course.

I was responding to Mr Mumble who had said we wouldn't need more houses, thus had stripped out the net migration figures and stated only the Natural change figures.

While I understand that the actual population figures are not exactly accurate (as the government don't know how many people have managed to get into the country or overstayed their visa's etc), this was not the point I was responding to.
Incidently, there are net migration figures in the link I provided
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?ID=950
It would appear that other than the spike in 2005, net migration is pretty steady, while natural change as I showed is on the increase.

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Originally Posted by Mr Mumble
PS. if a Tory government actually enforced border controls (unlikely since we'd have 'Dave' in power) we wouldn't need hundreds-of-thousands of new houses each year in the first place!