A Nightmare Look Into Britain's Future Maybe?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282764/Hong-Kongs-human-battery-hens-Claustrophobic-images-slum-families-squeeze-lives-tiniest-apartments.html

/// With a land mass of 1,104sq km (426 sq mi) and a population of seven million, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. ///

/// As rent is so high - around HKD$90 (£8) per square foot a month - and the waiting list for public housing so long, many are forced to live in inconceivably small spaces to survive. ///

[Barquentine]

More often these days we see articles about overcrowding by landlords squeezing too many people into one or two rooms. I think that last used to happen in Victorian times unless anyone knows otherwise?

[mushroom25]

i don't think this dates from the victorian era?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21376253

[honeydip]

But what a booming economy it has.

[youngmafbog]

Hong kong and the uk are not comparable. Unless you are planning on living 200 years maybe

[Buenchico]

If, as I suspect, you're trying to suggest that we're running out of space, AOG, it might be worth noting that the population density in Hong Kong is around 6500 people per square kilometre, whereas the the UK's equivalent figure is less than 250.

[sp1814]

AOG

Not when there's thousands of empty council houses all over the country.

There was a recent CH4 documentary on it, presented by George Clark.

Scandalous.

[emmie]

and you have to ask yourself why is that?

[emmie]

so no other paper, government ministers or sources are worried..

[Mick-Talbot]

so no other paper, government ministers or sources are worried about what, em?


Something that is pure conjecture on AOG's part?

[emmie]

that once the restrictions that have been in place on the Bulgarians, Romanians coming to Britain that we will have more on our streets, more than we can't afford, if jobs are this scarce, why are we importing more folk from whatever place.