London Population Boom

[vernonk]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1967968/sky-high-immigration-adds-staggering-100000-people-a-year-to-the-population-of-greater-london-as-high-birth-rates-pushes-it-towards-megacity-status/
Concerned? What do you the Mayor will do about it?

[fiction-factory]

I found the report a bit confusing at first glance. The headline refers to high birth rates but the article says "the number of children and teenagers in the capital is dropping by more than 30,000 a year "

[naomi24]

What do you hope the mayor will do about it?

[Gromit]

I am not the Mayor but I would sterilise anyone with a dusky face or a mumbo jumbo name and I would take away their existing children and deport them back to Khazistan or where ever the come from.

Am I close ?

[fiction-factory]

No divebuddy. Do you think it means that the birthrate has gone up by say 100000 a year and 130000 children are leaving the city, giving a net loss of 30000?

[webbo3]

Brilliant reason to live in Bristol and not London.



Dave.

[fiction-factory]

So the population in London is rising by a'staggering' 1% a year. Doesn't sound staggering to me, but it does puzzle me as to how people afford to live there or why they choose to pay those high rent/mortgage costs and anyone who uses the tube knows it's already overburdened. Immigration is certainly changing the populatation mix though in many areas and that is clearly concerning the Sun here and does raise issues

[naomi24]

fiction-factory, //So the population in London is rising by a'staggering' 1% a year. Doesn't sound staggering to me//

The population is rising by 100,000 a year. An extra one hundred thousand is a lot of people to house, employ, and to provide services for year on year. Hardly a minor problem.

[youngmafbog]

That is the problem with using percentages. You can use them to make things better or worse depending on how you present things.

Like Naomi says, how do you deal with 100K rise each year wanting housing and services in an already overstretched infrastructure?

How do they afford it? Simple the tax payer pays for a fair portion of it.

[Gromit]

Why is this news?
We all know the Tories have been letting in net immigration of 300,000 annually. Have been for several years. And for her dismal record overseeing this 'Sky High' 'Staggering' 'Explosion', Mrs May is promoted to the top job.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

And do you believe Labour (if they ever get back in) will stop the swarm?

[anotheoldgit]

Most of this weeks TV news has been taken up with reports on how the NHS is in crisis, and the main excuse is the elderly are living longer.

Strange that the vast numbers of immigrants coming into the country, and the other foreign health tourist are a large part of the problem, but that is never mentioned.

Oh no, that would be politically incorrect, and we don't want that do we?

[andy-hughes]

When I saw the OP heading in the Latest Posts section, and that AOG was the last to post, I wondered idly to myself if he might, perchance, be mentioning the word 'immigrant' somewhere.

Needless to say I was not disappointed.

[Baldric]

Don't see why he shouldn't use it especially as it is used in the link in the OP

[Gromit]

AOG
Immigrants get old. If they are blaming more older people for the NHS being over subscribed, they are not omitting immigrants, they are included in the catch-all 'elderly' term.

Will Labour stop the swarm? They wouldn't want to, managable numbers of immigrants are good for the country. Labours average immigration figure was HALF of Mrs May's annual figure. I would be happy if it halved again under Labour.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes @11:42. Why wouldn't aog - or anyone else - mention immigrants in this context? White indigenous Brits are now in the minority in London so there's no denying that immigration has had a big effect and continues to have a big effect on the city.

[anotheoldgit]

I apologise to those who do not wish to hear the words immigration mentioned, but I thought that 'immigrants' was the topic that we where discussing.

/// POPULATION EXPLOSION Sky-high immigration adds staggering 100,000 people a year to the population of Greater London as high birth rates pushes it towards ‘megacity status’ ///

[Bazile]

webbo3

//Brilliant reason to live in Bristol and not London. //

Don't be comfortable in that thought - In a few years time Bristol will be dealing with the overspill from London and you will be forced to move out into the Celtic Sea and live on a barge