Re: YLM Britain ready to welcome Hong Kong refugees
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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Well, well. It seems I am the only one who thinks the UK is full up.
No .. you're not.
Our population is about 66 million .... how in hell do we absorb nearly 3 million in one go? It's a 5% population growth .
Remember not so many years back when Ms Merkel kindly invited all the Middle Eastern refugees to come to Europe and we saw all those pictures of this heaving swarm of locust-like humans trampling across Hungarian fields?
One million came and were spread around the EU .... I shudder to imagine the convoy of planes needed to fly 3 million over here. Though it might well help our ailing aviation industry who I imagine are submitting tenders as we speak.
What about homes?
Health care?
Schools?
The required land area to sustain such numbers could be equal to 3 Birminghams .... 6 Liverpools or 6 Manchesters...
They might be wealthy, they might be bright but inviting rich relatives to come stay can have a habit of backfiring on the less well off inhabitants ...
and we're an island, a relatively small island ..
and I think we're full.
3 million ...gawd, it doesn't bear thinking about.