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Originally Posted by Pierre
UK population rise of 538,000 is biggest for 70 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40372533
60% due to net migration.
Of course they're all NHS nurses, fruit pickers, hotels workers etc so that's fine. |
That is a huge number although not all of it is immigration.
It shows how much investment we need in public infrastructure to sustain this population growth.
Social housing
NHS
Education
Policing
Roads
Social Security (welfare)
Whilst it may seem the solution is to stop immigration, that alone would create a bigger staffing problem for services such as the NHS and also would not address the remaining circa 250k annual growth in the population.
I read a big barrier to new housing asides from the private companies deliberately building slow (to maintain supply and demand balance) is the difficulty acquiring land to build properties on. This country probably needs to do two major shifts in policy.
Mass social house building.
Compulsory purchases of land from private landowners.