UK population 'to rise to 71.6m'

Davesnave

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

I've already got some of the original still at the end of my road right where the Romans first put it.

Yeah, bloomin' Romans: they built a road right through my old town, and what did we get? Traffic chaos!

I ask you, what did the Romans ever do for us?:mad:

Pssst

Yes...fling open the doors,let everyone in to our already overcrowded little lump of rock.

fc123

b0rker wrote: »

Leave our vast expanses of absolutely nothing alone thanks.

It is where we go and enjoy ourselves during evenings and weekends climbing, walking, cycling.

Meanwhile many Londoners who pay many times more than we do for the same housing are too scared to leave their homes at the weekend for fear of mugging/burglary.

Are you sure? I don't know any who feel like that....or is that 'a modern myth'?

stonethrower

Meanwhile many Londoners who pay many times more than we do for the same housing are too scared to leave their homes at the weekend for fear of mugging/burglary.

While we pay lots more for housing I don't know anyone who is scared to leave their house.
I been to Glasgow and as far as I could see that is a lot worse than London

fc123

Davesnave wrote: »

Yeah, bloomin' Romans: they built a road right through my old town, and what did we get? Traffic chaos!

I ask you, what did the Romans ever do for us?:mad:

The fall of The Roman Empire was from hubris, sueing each other and, generally, taking their eye off the ball...so perhaps they taught us how not to do it....except we seem to be going down the same route in the west.

We own by a Roman Rd....you can leave my cul de sac (loving that word for a dead end st), turn left and drive in a totally straight line and end up on Waterloo bridge. OK, A few roundabouts now and one way loops...but still fairly simple.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

The fall of The Roman Empire was from hubris, sueing each other and, generally, taking their eye off the ball...so perhaps they taught us how not to do it....except we seem to be going down the same route in the west.

We own by a Roman Rd....you can leave my cul de sac (loving that word for a dead end st), turn left and drive in a totally straight line and end up on Waterloo bridge. OK, A few roundabouts now and one way loops...but still fairly simple.

The best sat nav results ever for a 110 mile journey we do occasionally..

Turn left...keep straight ahead for 109 miles

Turn right.

Mr_Matey

bo_drinker wrote: »

Time to close the gates I think, we should have taken a leaf out of Australias book re this and told the great un washed to f3ck off.

We still welcome backpackers.

lostinrates

I'm intrigued as to who the people are that are too soft to head north, yet hardened enough to head out daily to work, dodging rapists, murderers and burglars that make up by far the majority of London, if some of this were believed!

even having worked with those nasty elements in London, I'm not afraid to leave my home. That said, I do take precaustions, I haven't used a night bus alone in as long as I can remember (and insisted, when we lived in london, that wen y younger s-i-l and another female relative lived with us, they let me pick them up at ungodly hours in the car, or share a taxi with a friend if there were not a group for the night bus.)

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Chantalle wrote: »

Who cares if the immigrants can't get a house?

Its the British population we should be caring about!

If we do have to have some economic migrants (and I am unconvinced) then they must be goven only fixed term visas and they should be removed at the end of them.

You don't grasp the aging population problem at all, do you?

If native birthrate declines, and life expectancy increases (both of which have happened), you end up with not enough young people to care for the old.

The pensions pot has been spent and the liabilities are huge. Without an influx of new workers paying tax, the financial crisis that would result would make the last one look trivial.:rolleyes:

Thrugelmir

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

You don't grasp the aging population problem at all, do you?

If native birthrate declines, and life expectancy increases (both of which have happened), you end up with not enough young people to care for the old.

The pensions pot has been spent and the liabilities are huge. Without an influx of new workers paying tax, the financial crisis that would result would make the last one look trivial.:rolleyes:

You are assuming that everyone wants to put their feet up at 65. Many don't.