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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
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.
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We have had net immigration of around 350,000 for well over a decade and yet we're still being told the jobs these people were supposedly coming to the UK to do are vacant. How is that? I reckon it's because most of the people coming here aren't doing the jobs we really need them to do they're doing the jobs they want to do. We are being told they're keeping the NHS afloat when there's a total of about 10% (IIRC) of migrants in the NHS and yet we're still seeing well over 350,000 extra migrants every year. They're clearly not all going into the NHS are they.
No the figure isn't all immigration but the bulk of it is and the you can add on top the higher birthrates prevalent amongst migrants which also add to our huge population growth.
You can build as many homes as you like but at what point are we going to say enough is enough? Homes need roads, services etc. where are they going to come from. We cannot build our way out of the housing problem unless we can control population growth at a manageable level. We're talking about having to build the equivalent of 2 cities the size of Oxford every year just to keep pace with net migration. Where do you suggest all these houses are built and how are they going to be serviced?