Crammed Britain:
. . . the devastating consequences of immigration
By John Ware (reporter for the BBC's Panorama) 19th April 2010
The UK's population is currently estimated to be just over 62 million. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), 68 per cent of the growth to 70 million will come from immigration (both from the number of new arrivals as well as the increase they make to the birth-rate). We are on course, apparently, for eight million more people over just two decades.
However, 'Squashed' is perhaps another way of putting it.
However you carve up the rough equivalent of this rise - one big city the size of London, eight cities the size of Birmingham or one city the size of Bristol every year for the next 19 years - never in our history will we have grown by such numbers, nor over such a sustained period.
England would take 90 per cent of this growth.
This means we cram houses with the smallest dimensions in Europe into what little there is of it.
It took 57 years for our population to grow from 50 million in 1948 to 60 million in 2005. Yet the ONS calculates it's going to grow another ten million in less than half that time. Read more...
Tesco continues land-grab with house-building plan
Date: 26-Apr-10
Tesco's going into property . . . Britain’s biggest retailer is planning to develop four ‘minivillages’ in the South East, along with ‘mixed-use living and leisure schemes’ (malls with flats?) in Ipswich and north-east England. Read more...
Tesco's going into property . . . Britain’s biggest retailer is planning to develop four ‘minivillages’ in the South East, along with ‘mixed-use living and leisure schemes’ (malls with flats?) in Ipswich and north-east England. Read more...