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London Population Boom
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Concerned? What do you the Mayor will do about it?
Concerned? What do you the Mayor will do about it?
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fiction- factory, //So the population in London is rising by a' staggering' 1% a year. Doesn't sound staggering to me// The population is rising by 100,000 a year. An extra one hundred thousand is a lot of people to house, employ, and to provide services for year on year. Hardly a minor problem.
07:07 Fri 14th Oct 2016
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a proportion of those that fit your description above are here quite legally fender. the buses from eastern europe typically arrive on a friday night, disgorging their passengers in the harrow area of north-west london, and many spend their first night rough in stanmore country park. most move on after a day or two, but there is still a hard core problem for the local authority to deal with, and clean up after. these people aren't here to take up offered employment but are economic chancers, here to fall into any unskilled job they can find, and take their accommodation from any one of the slum landlords who illegally place them in garages, sheds or on allotments from harrow to ealing and hounslow.
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So the concern here seems less about the "staggering" (ha ha) 1% increase p.a. in the population of London and more about the fact/perception that there are so many non-English speaking parasites.
If people feel a 1% increase is staggering then I have to accept their interpretation of the word staggering (presumably they would also be staggered to receive a 1% real terms annual salary increase), but it does rather dilute the English language.
If people feel a 1% increase is staggering then I have to accept their interpretation of the word staggering (presumably they would also be staggered to receive a 1% real terms annual salary increase), but it does rather dilute the English language.
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