Census results - 3.7m more in the last 10 years

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Interestingly, 55% of the increase came from net inward migration.

If you think about the comensurate rise in investment in infrastructure and public services required to meet the needs of all these additional people, you realise just why the whole country seems so rickety! Not only that - new house building fell to just 104,970 in the year to march 2012. Where are all these people living??

I was interesting that the growth rate over that decade was the greatest ever growth rate since records began. Is this another part of the 00s disastrous bubble?

At present, we can not afford the services and infrastructure already have, let alone provide more.

I couldn't find an article on this on the BBC. But I heard on radio 4 yesterday after work that we are also having a lot more babies. It was 1.6 per woman (of child bearing age) 10 years ago, and now 1.9.

I wonder also why we are more keen to reproduce now.

"We" aren't. The overwhelming majority of the rise in the birth rate is newly-arrived migrants.

If every anyone needed proof of the contempt with which Labour treated the British people during its time in power, their policy of unlimited immigration is the best example I can think of.

"I wonder also why we are more keen to reproduce now."

Have a look at this - specifically the conclusion on page 34. It is a report entitled 'Does Welfare Reform Affect Fertility' and it is a joint publication between the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the University of Bristol so it is, presumably, a peer reviewed paper which can be trusted for its impartiality.

[Dons tin helmet and goes to hide under the stairs until the shit storm is over]

Thank you for posting the research, MrJP. I read the abstract and the conclusion.

So they are saying that more family friendly policies are .. family friendly. No surprises there then.

But who wouldn't want to support families, since they are the ones who will look after us in our long old age.

There's another thread on this in Politics, btw.