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Originally Posted by Osem
If ever the was a policy which embodied 'quantity over quality' this has to be it. Why would successive governments be quite happy to see the UK experience even more rapid population growth than we've already had over the last decade or so when we patently can't cope with what we already have. It seems to me that for those who don't comprise the well off and elite, it's going to be a race to the bottom in terms of jobs, wages, lifestyles, communities, housing, services, social cohesion, the environment and future prospects. Are those people who complain about such things now seriously going to vote to add millions more people to the problem? To my mind the benefits to the ordinary man of EU membership are far outweighed by the evidence before our eyes all across Europe. Focus on that thought before putting your X in the 'IN' box.
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If the predictions of a fall in growth from leaving, which has been predicted from far more than just the government, come true then the ordinary man will feel that as will public services. A recession has very real consequences for those young people, for workers and for the poor. The 'well-off and elite' suffer far less from recessions than those that live month to month and don't have large savings or pensions to fall back on. If anything the well-off and elite are in a better position to take the risk.
It's still not clear that Brexit won't still result in us having to accept freedom of movement in return for access to the single market. So we may have those numbers coming here anyway.