UK needs +7 Million immigrants to keep debt down

TruckerT

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Mass migration simply isn't feasible to cope with. Freedom of movement sounds a wonderful concept. However with it also comes social unrest, particularly at times of economic woe as is the case now.

I wonder how the OBR economists managed to assign a number to the human consequences of mass migration.

TruckerT

antrobus

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Mass migration simply isn't feasible to cope with. Freedom of movement sounds a wonderful concept. However with it also comes social unrest, particularly at times of economic woe as is the case now.

Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine.

Thrugelmir

TruckerT wrote: »

I wonder how the OBR economists managed to assign a number to the human consequences of mass migration.

Where in the UK can we build 7 new Birmingham's.......?

antrobus

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Where in the UK can we build 7 new Birmingham's.......?

There appear to be 48 countries in the world with a higher population density than the UK. If we had the same population density as the Netherlands we could fit in another 30 million people at least.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=21000

Thrugelmir

antrobus wrote: »

There appear to be 48 countries in the world with a higher population density than the UK. If we had the same population density as the Netherlands we could fit in another 30 million people at least.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=21000

Is that based on usable land mass?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Where in the UK can we build 7 new Birmingham's.......?

That wold only require taking the percentage of the UK with buildings on it from 3% to 3.5%.

I think we can spare half a percent of the land in the UK to ensure our future financial and economic wellbeing.;)

TruckerT

antrobus wrote: »

Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine.

Yo cleverclogs - you know Latin as well as Economics!

Enoch Powell was in a previous 30-year lifetime.

Latin has long been regarded as superfluous to the modern world.

Let's replace 'Thybrim' with 'MSE', and see if the way forward becomes any more clear...

TruckerT

TruckerT

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

That wold only require taking the percentage of the UK with buildings on it from 3% to 3.5%.

I think we can spare half a percent of the land in the UK to ensure our future financial and economic wellbeing.;)

I reckon Scotland could easily find space for 7 Birminghams.

TruckerT

Sampong

antrobus wrote: »

There appear to be 48 countries in the world with a higher population density than the UK. If we had the same population density as the Netherlands we could fit in another 30 million people at least.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=21000

Do the more densely populated have the same level as multiculturalism as the UK?

antrobus

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Is that based on usable land mass?

Don't know. Does it matter?

If we had the same population density as San Marino we could fit in twice as many people. And San Marino's terrain is described as "rugged mountains" which sounds a bit less usable than the UK's "mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast".

The point; if we had to find room for another 7 million, we could.