This is not a "we are all doomed" question, but a genuine question on the future of this country.
We are a relatively small country, with an ageing population (1 in 6 people are over 65).
In an attempt to increase the number of younger people in this country, to support this ageing population, we seem to have had an "open door" policy on immigration in the last 10 years or so.
So we now have more young people, and of course immigrant families are known to have more children that the white indiginous population (at least at first).
Many fairly well-off middle-aged and retired people are now using the equity in their houses and moving abroad, and spending their pension money in Spain, Portugal, Bulgeria etc.
But overall the UK population is growing, and there is talk of building thousands more houses, more roads, bigger cities and so on.
So the questions that come to mind are:
How do we cope with an ever growing population.
Do we want the majority of our young people to be from Ethnic groups (already some cities have more than 50% of babies born from ethnic groups).
Do we want more roads and bigger cities to cope with the increased population.
Are we happy about these well-off retired people moving abroad and taking their spending power with them.
And what happens when all these immigrants who are coming here NOW get old. Do we have to import even MORE immigrants to provide for the elderly immigrants that came here in the last 10 years.
I dont like where I see this country going, but I am not sure what alternatives we have.
Any comments?
Population pyramid
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