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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Whatever way you want to look at it we cannot pretend there is a solution without investment. Even with no immigration we will have net population growth.
I suggest a combination of managing population growth and investment.
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Whatever the investments we make, a rapidly increasing population at the level we're experiencing doesn't solve the problems we're facing with an ageing population, it just delays and compounds them. HS2 would but lots of homes but those homes in themselves require services and infrastructure which cost yet more money. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy just like the M25 - build more lanes and more cars just fill them up...
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And over in Eurolalaland:
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Italy has threatened to stop vessels of other countries from disembarking migrants at its ports.
It comes as Italy's representative to the EU, Maurizio Massari, warned in a letter to the bloc the situation had become "unsustainable".
Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has accused other European nations of "looking the other way".
An estimated 10,000 people are believed to have attempted the journey from North Africa in the past four days.
More than 73,000 migrants have landed in Italy this year, an increase of 14% on the same period last year.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40437917
Maybe the Italians should just build loads of new homes eh?...
