THE more I think about it, the more I think it might be time to get the hell out. Head for Belize or North Korea or somewhere.
This is a desperately crowded country, one of the most densely populated in Europe. Already, our infrastructure simply cannot cope.
The pressures on our NHS and our schools. The housing shortage.
And it is a country where we have imported people, some of whom do not share many of our cultural values.
Hell, some of them quite clearly hate us. I mean, they have a point, but still. Doesn’t make for good community relations, as we have seen.
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And now we learn from the Government’s official figures that the population could increase to a staggering 74million . . . by 2036!
The Office for National Statistics projection suggests we will need to build 156,000 homes per year just to cope with the influx over the next 12 years.
That’s a town the size of Doncaster every year. More green fields paved over, more stress on our infrastructure.
By 2036 the ONS figures suggest that we might have an extra 6.1million in our country solely as a consequence of net migration.
Not only that, but it would be those who come here — or have already arrived — who would be driving almost all of the natural population growth through births.
Did anyone vote for this? Is there anyone here, aside from a handful of deranged Lefties, who think this is a good idea? That this is exactly what the country needs?
I ought to be clear. This isn’t principally about the number of young men from the Middle East and North Africa washing ashore in Dover in those dinghies.
They are just a drop in the ocean compared to those who come here perfectly legally. As relatives of the people who already live here.
Sometimes the mums and dads of foreign students. Sometimes the distant cousins of people who moved here in the 1970s.
By any measure, this is a vast influx, much of it from the Indian subcontinent. Some of it from developing African countries such as Nigeria.
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We know that at the moment the country cannot cope with the population as it is. Think of the problems that would lie in store were that population swelled by ten per cent in just 12 years. And think not just of the housebuilding, the clogged streets, the floods brought about by building on unsuitable land, and the creaking NHS.
Think of the cultural change this new influx would wreak upon the country.
Great Britain has already changed hugely from how it was, even in the 1990s. And, to my mind, not necessarily for the better.
And yet none of our mainstream parties have any solution to this crisis.
Labour doesn’t even think it IS a crisis. Let them come — welcome, welcome.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives have been in power for nine years and have done nothing to slow down the arrivals.
Yes, we need some skilled immigration. But there is not the slightest indication that the people who come here WILL be the people we need to fill our labour shortage. Quite the reverse.
Here is the point. Any party which grasps how important this problem is and comes up with a detailed plan to reduce immigration will get my vote — and the votes of millions of others — at the next election.
In the meantime, I think I’ll be looking for a bolthole.
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HEY, where the hell has Jeopardy! gone?
At last we had a quiz show where the questions sometimes had a modicum of difficulty and the contestants were both clever and likeable.
And now it’s disappeared we have to put up with Ben Shephard gently leading morons through Tipping Point. Where the level of inquiry is kinda: “What is your own name, you congenital halfwit?”
And the response is usually: “I’ll pass on that one, Ben.”
The latest incarnation of Jeopardy! has been criticised for being too slow and having too small sums of cash as prizes. Poor old host Stephen Fry has also copped some flack.
But I like his friendly and avuncular style. The UK version of the game doesn’t have to ape the American one, after all.
Come on ITV, bring it back. Put some joy into our tea times.
PARTY IS IN BAD NIC
SO, Madame Krankie has at last fessed up.
Nicola Sturgeon admitted she had deleted loads of WhatsApp messages during the Covid pandemic.
Stuff relating to her Scottish Government’s catastrophic handling of the crisis.
SNP staffers also used “burner” phones to receive diverted calls.
And Krankie gave a private email address to a doctor she was talking to.
It is pretty clear now to all that Sturgeon and the SNP took the kind of approach to running Scotland you might expect from the McMafia. Arrogant, unaccountable, utterly impervious to the need for transparency and openness.
How is this woman still in public life?
And why is there even a handful of Scots prepared to vote SNP ever again?
