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    UK population to soar to 72.5million by 2032 due to net migration rise, ONS says
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    UK population to soar to 72.5million by 2032 due to net migration rise, ONS says

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    1. SlySquire on

      That’s almost 4 cities the size of Birmingham over the course of just 7 years. Oh and the plan at the minute is only to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029

    2. corbynista2029 on

      >“Our latest projections also highlight an increasingly ageing population, with the number of people aged over 85 projected to nearly double to 3.3 million by 2047.

      It’s inevitable. Our population pyramid is wholly unsustainable. Our government has 4 options: 1. boost birth rates immediately because it takes two decades for children to be working adults, 2. slash health and social care for the elderlies to reduce lifespan, 3. bring productivity up so that it’s sufficient to cover the fiscal shortfall, or 4. bring migrants in to buy time for other policies’ to have an effect on the economy.

      Unless we are ready to slash NHS even further, migration is the only way out.

    3. GoldenFutureForUs on

      I’m sure this won’t increase the strain on the NHS, housing, welfare state overall etc. Let alone the state budget. That clearly hasn’t been happening up until now. Net immigration of over half a million a year only brings benefits – it never makes life worse for the people already here.

    4. duxie on

      We need to start building tall instead of wide. As much as people want their own detached houses, it’s simply more economical to start building more multi family homes like in Europe. I don’t mean 10 storey buildings in villages but 2-3 storey

    5. socratic-meth on

      > The population is forecast to reach 72.5 million by mid-2032, up from 67.6 million in mid-2022, driven almost entirely by net migration, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

      The government owes it to the population to ensure that all new entrants are economic net contributors to the country or the dependents of such a person. Given the financial problems of local councils, lack of infrastructure investment, and housing shortages such a population increase is clearly not sustainable.

    9. OpticalData on

      >“These projections are based on current and past trends, and aren’t forecasts about what may or may not happen in the future.

      These aren’t projections based on policy or policy announcements, just speculation based off of migration trends from mid-2022 to now.

      Given that, thanks to Tory visa issuing policies, we’ve had back to back bumper-net migration figures since mid 2022. The figure projected here will likely be much higher than it will be in reality.

      These figures don’t even account for the changes to visas the Tories made pre-election, as I believe the last annual migration data only runs to June 2024.

    10. Eywa182 on

      I thought the population stats were false anyway? Massively under estimated based on consumption of things like utilities?

    11. dpr60 on

      The report says births and deaths are calculated to be roughly equal, so this rise in population is all additional migration in the coming years, not the effect of current migration, otherwise the numbers would be static.

    12. thefunkygibbon on

      it’s like the government is actively trying to force people to vote with the far right anti immigration lot. I just simply do not understand the mindset.

    14. throwaway69420die on

      “The ONS also provides a projection further into the future, covering the 25 years between mid-2022 and mid-2047, for which the total projected growth of the UK population is 8.9 million, a jump of 13.2 per cent.
      This is lower than the previous 25 years from 1997 to 2022, when the population is estimated to have risen by 9.3 million, or 15.9 per cent.”

      “The number of births and deaths across the period is projected to be almost identical, with about 6.8 million births offset by 6.8 million deaths.”

      “Our latest projections also highlight an increasingly ageing population, with the number of people aged over 85 projected to nearly double to 3.3 million by 2047.”

      I’ve not read the study, just this article, but if you breakdown what they’re saying here, is that net migration is projected to be lower in the long term (likely due to Labour’s harsher Border Enforcement).

      They also predict that births are going to increase, but all evidence I’ve seen is contrary to this, and indicates a decline in births due to cost of living, house prices etc, and people moving out of their parents much later.

      What I’m getting from this, is that there is an aging population of unemployed people, creating an increase work in sectors that require care for elderly people, that aren’t working, that is going to increase the population by 1.5 million.

      They’re predicting that the elderly dying will be balanced out by more births, but the evidence shows that is not the trend our country is following.

      So this number seems skewed to me.

      I don’t disagree net migration will cause an increase but this prediction seems inaccurate.

    15. Scratch_Careful on

      British birth rate is below replacement and has been for decades, yet some how the population will have increased 30% from when i was born to the time im 40.

    17. individualcoffeecake on

      Getting to the point where I am considering voting for whatever lunatic the right wing puts in front of us.

    19. Suspicious-Routine64 on

      Migration like this has a huge number of issues:
      Increase in crime,
      Increase in housing costs,
      Lower wages,
      Lower social cohesion,
      Worse social service available 

      What are the benefits?:
      Cheap labour,
      Higher house prices,
      Higher government debt ceiling 

      Immigration as currently managed destroys the future of the young with benefits for a very small number of typically already wealthy people. Nobody even voted for this…

    20. AldebaranTauri_ on

      It’s ok, let’s not be selfish, let’s lower standards for everyone.

      Let’s destroy more trees and green belt to build more houses and let’s tax the taxpayers more to help out the migrants and their relatives who will come from abroad.

      Let’s the infrastructure collapse a bit more and who cares if there are millions more cars on the roads and traffic jams.

      Don’t be selfish!

    21. Thetinpotman_ on

      The price that the UK is paying for the 50+ generation that can live of the profits from the housing they bought and not being able to motivate young people into working hard as the economy seems to offer them no hope.

      Until the lack of productivity is solved immigration is the only answer.

    24. js150760 on

      I do not know why figures on the left take a completely dithering view to immigration. It feels like their natural position should be opposition given socialised services (NHS, education, welfare) completely fall apart with reckless immigration control.

      If a left leaning leader took this view, I suspect they’d have significant electoral success.

    27. nandosoffical on

      It’s all so demoralising, by design I’m sure.

      If you can’t see how importing millions of people who are apathetic to a lower standard of living will affect the UK I’m not sure what to tell you. The tide will be lowered for all boats and you’ll be happy.

      This is only going to be accelerating thanks to the Trump crackdown.

      We’re cooked anyway, no point arguing with the redditard bleeding hearts & bad actors. It’s already over, the UK is destined to become the little European third world.

    28. BrokenDownMiata on

      At some point somebody is going to have to bite the bullet and talk about this shit because it is getting ridiculous.

      We are a small island mostly covered in countryside and mountains. We are not Spain or France or Ukraine or Romania. We do not have infinite space to store people.

      Wanna know how small we are? That strip of red on the edge of Ukraine where maps show Russia occupies? That strip is roughly the same size as the entire contiguous United Kingdom.

      I’m absolutely all for migration. I have about 30 friends from various countries. Canada, the USA, Peru, Norway, Italy, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, China (Xinjiang, Hainan, Heilongjiang), Taiwan, my fiancé is from Australia.

      We are below replacement rate but rather than trying to give incentives to grow, we import foreign labour. Before Brexit, it was mostly skilled, primarily manual labour for manufacturing and construction. Now it is largely unskilled labour because skilled labour in Europe can get better pay and better jobs in the EU.

      I do also think that international law needs to be revisited, because there is no way that legally preventing a country from turning asylum seekers away when you have a population crisis on your hands is a valid solution at this point.

      I’m left wing. I’m a social democrat. Once again, I’m for migration, and saying that immigration needs to be tackled isn’t some far right, racist statement, but every politician is terrified of addressing it, and if they ever were to address it, the House of Commons would roar with shouts of racism and bigotry towards whoever dared point it out.

      You can’t say “we are struggling to support everyone so we’re making some changes” and then turn around and accept thousands more people who will ultimately not benefit our economy or country.