The ONS has forecast that the UK population will rise by 5 million people to 73 million by 2032. This is being driven by immigration which in my opinion is way too high. The only positive aspect is that it will increase the working population which might help to cut the need to raise taxes. But it will place a heavy burden on social services, doctors, schools, etc, which are already over-stretched.
The transport network is a major problem with insufficient capacity to cope with the number of houses being built to house the increased population. I live in the London suburbs and traffic congestion has already increased substantially in the last few years and it is obviously going to get a lot worse as there are no plans to improve the road network. Don’t expect Sadiq Khan to do anything about it.
Where are the additional 5 million people going to be housed? We need another few cities the size of Birmingham so where are they going to go? England’s green and pleasant land will soon disappear.
There is also a looming problem with the capacity of the electricity network which faces increased demand from electrification to meet irrational net-zero carbon emissions.
But the current Government seems to have no clear plan to curb population growth. They may be attacking “illegal migration” but most of the inward migration is people on work visas or family relatives. There are also many “asylum” seekers who are really economic migrants. There are no clear targets or plans for how to stop the population growth which we desperately need. I have said this before and the scenario does not change.
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