Yawn. Two can play at that game.
From Wiki, UK population 61 million, surface area 94,526 sq miles = 645/sq mile (249/sq km). Not spectularly high, so they strip out S, NI and W and look at England only. From Wiki, population 51 million, surface area 50,346 sq miles = 1,000/sq mile (391/sq km).
But why don't we go one further and strip out Greater London? English population (excl. GL) 43.5 million, surface area 49,727 sq miles = 874/sq mile (342/sq km). That gets us down to well below The Netherlands and only a quarter of Malta's density.
I mean, I have utmost respect for Sir Andrew Green, and completely agree with him that we are letting in too many of the wrong sort of people, but messing about with numbers like this just discredits the whole argument.
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"I mean, I have utmost respect for Sir Andrew Green, and completely agree with him that we are letting in too many of the wrong sort of people, but messing about with numbers like this just discredits the whole argument."
This was done by the office of national statistics. Do you think they are run by migration watch?
I was referring to Sir A's comments about seven new Birminghams.
Dont worry, Broon has it all in hand, he has f***ed up our energy policy, as well as economy and the lights will soon by going out big time (no doubt a labour opposition blaming the Tories when they do) So I guess the ones that have any brains will be off.
But look at the bright side, we will have lots of windmill to look at. Mark my words, the asset bubble that broon helped build and its ongoing consequences will not be his and NuLabs biggest blunder.
Lets hope I am wrong.
You're not wrong, Mr By. His biggest blunder was tax credits which have locked millions into dependency on the State and can only be unravelled at vast cost. I believe it to be Osborne's greatest challenge.
Much as I am against Income Tax, the raising of personal allowance to someone working a 40hr minimum wage week, i.e. around £12k, would enable tax credits to be eradicated IMHO.
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