A lot of that is driven by people simply living longer, you're not proposing mandatory euthanasia are you?
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A lot of that is driven by people simply living longer, you're not proposing mandatory euthanasia are you?
I'm not proposing anything at all. And for your information it is estimated that 51% of it will be from immigration.
Here's the Irish study, I'd imagine a UK one would follow a similar trend.
The > 65 increase is actually more than double, yikes.
This is all under the assumption too that Ireland's net migration continually increases to the point where it doubles of even triples.
So, good luck UK.
The > 65 increase is actually more than double, yikes.
And the percentage of the working population will decline.
This is all under the assumption too that Ireland's net migration continually increases to the point where it doubles of even triples.
So, good luck UK.
And I agree with that, I myself don't really like these generalizations, I don't even think that they help us understand the issues, it just creates tranches. The main issue is that some people in Europe are poor and they don't have any hope for it to improve for themselves or their children.
The study by ONS was pre-Brexit if I remember rightly. One signifcant issue lost in the increase number is come 2039, 1 in 12 people will be over 80. That's going to happen regardless.
A HR Consultancy firm called Mercer recently looked into what we will see is a significant issue in terms of workers come 2025 particularly as the amount of over 50s will increase by a quarter.
http://www.cityam.com/283156/uk-facing-workforce-crisis-2025-perfect-storm-ageing
It's why I suspect whatever happens with FOM, we will probably go back on it in some way.
Was this an exaggeration? I don't think you're that sheltered.
Probably also worth noting that while net migration figures are relatively low (at least in comparison) to the population, some areas will be more impacted than others. Up in Scotland, while I don't have the figures at hand, I believe immigration levels are generally a lot lower than in the rest of the UK. This is especially noticeable in a lot of non-city towns which, while still reasonable in size, have very low immigrant populations.
That's not to say it's necessarily a bad thing that other areas have more, of course, since I'd subscribe to the view that diversity tends to be a good thing, but it probably is important to note that people experience immigration in different ways and that no two individuals will have an identical experience in relation to it. Indeed, even if solely through pot luck, it's conceivable that the effects of immigration on the economy and community could hypothetically be brilliant in one town, while being more negative in another. Because like with all people you can't always just put immigrants into convenient boxes and not account for divergences in social circumstances, economic mobility, age, gender etc.
Although of course there is the notable irony that a lot of the most pro-Brexit areas where you'll likely see more racists will end up being rural communities who don't have that much to do with them.
Barnier has officially rejected the Chequeres plan. What next?
I'd propose mandatory caravan parks for fogies. Free up housing for the youngsters.
That's the most insanely all-encompassing definition of racism you've ever heard?
I can't imagine that.
You're not hearing much if that's the most extreme you're coming across.
Send them cruise ships 364 days per year. That's even more space gained.
There's always the Soylent Green solution. Tackles food poverty as well for a win-win scenario.
They hate all migrants regardless of skin tone
Some of the places with the least migration had the largest leave votes (and vice versa). Not to forget the posher richer Tories who's majority voted out, no scarcity of resources for them
There weren't any respectable or sensible reasons to vote for Brexit, were there?
Reasons to vote for Brexit seem to range from racist, to completely naive. At worst 'keep foreigners out innit'. At best: 'We can negotiate a magical deal without any downsides and any consequences will be non-existence because...project fear'.
I don't think it's my hindsight Remainer smugness either. Every single problem we're encountering now was eminently foreseeable but people were either too racist to care or wilfully ignorant to notice. You have to admire the die-hards though. The ones that argue that they voted exactly for food shortages, trade chaos and potential to run out of blood and medical supplies in return for something having the potential to start looking up in 50 years time. The level of self-denial is admirable to be honest.
Reasons to vote for Brexit seem to range from racist, to completely naive. At worst 'keep foreigners out innit'. At best: 'We can negotiate a magical deal without any downsides and any consequences will be non-existence because...project fear'.
I don't think it's my hindsight Remainer smugness either. Every single problem we're encountering now was eminently foreseeable but people were either too racist to care or wilfully ignorant to notice. You have to admire the die-hards though. The ones that argue that they voted exactly for food shortages, trade chaos and potential to run out of blood and medical supplies in return for something having the potential to start looking up in 50 years time. The level of self-denial is admirable to be honest.
Never saw that one coming.
There's been Lancaster House, Mansion House, Florence, Chequers all of which were a load of bilge.
Tower of London sounds good, they can effect the usual punishment if it all goes wrong yet again.
https://www.scribd.com/document/384...ter-to-Mr-Arron-Banks-25-July-2018#from_embed
Channel 4 letter to Arron Banks accusing him, among other things, of planning to use mercenaries to control aspects of Lesotho's economy.
Channel 4 letter to Arron Banks accusing him, among other things, of planning to use mercenaries to control aspects of Lesotho's economy.
A third of the comments are as entertaining. One of them offers to have tariffs free trades with everyone in the EU but France and Germany who will have to suffer WTO rules, you have to wonder why these two in particular and the lack of understanding of WTO rules.
There were no sensible reasons but I suppose some of the leave voters must have thought that if many big names in the ruling party (Johnson, Gove, Davis, Fox) were saying we could have our cake and eat it, then maybe it could be done - “freedom” plus prosperity. A large part of the blame ultimately lies with those charlatans and fantasists in the senior echelons of the Tory Party.
I love this one personally, perfect embodiment of leave voter and their understanding of how EU works:
Lineker has backed the Peoples Vote
To be fair, their Russian sponsors are very good at that sort of thing.
In Brexitland France and Germany govern the UK. Has any Brexiter ever made any sense or shown a grasp of any knowledge of how the EU or WTO operates?
Surprise!
Thought it would be more tbh.
Kind of makes you wonder what the other 55% were about?
The NHS and jobs that the EU prevents. This ad is interesting though because it's not about immigration but...:
The visuals make that pretty clearly about immigration alright.