Immigration matters

'New ONS figures released today show population rose 513,000 in one year

Means UK population has gone up by nearly five million in 10 years

Rise caused by 335,600 net migration and 171,800 more births than deaths'

More here but likely not on the institutionally pro immigration BBC.

Full? BBC News - UK population grows by more than 400,000

'The ONS said the UK population had increased by about five million since 2001 and by more than 10 million since 1964.'

Full yet? 

More non investigative reporting here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27972335

What is the population of the UK

As people send off their census forms, I have not yet, the question as to how many people live in the UK is more relevant than normal. So I was intrigued to read this article in The Independent from 2007, here's an extract to make you wonder how mcuh we can trust the results of the 2011 vensus and what the actual figure means for the true level of immigration:

'the population of the UK is presently somewhere between 77 and 80 million.

The 2001 census, already hopelessly out of date and easy to avoid for those who find filling in forms a trifle inelegant, numbered us at a little under 59 million. But as statistics go, that one's most definitely a damned lie.

My sources for the above statement are good, but scared of admitting the truth for fear of incurring the wrath of Whitehall. It's like the best way of monitoring illegal drug consumption: forget the pious statements from ministers – the foolproof method is to sample our water and the effluent in it. That's easily the best way of monitoring what the nation has been consuming.

Consumption – that's the thing. Based on what we eat, one big supermarket chain reckons there are 80 million people living in the UK. The demand for food is a reliable indicator; as Sir Richard Branson says, you can have all the money in the world but you can only eat onelunch and one dinner.

The supermarket in question was privately lobbying the Competition Commission to let it grow its market share. The argu- ment, reasonably enough, was that the market was far bigger than the regulator realised, so expanding the network was fair.

I have a second, respectable, source. A major, non-commercial agricultural institution reckons there are 77 million of us in the UK. Again, its reckoning is based on what we eat.

That faint background noise you're hearing as you read this is the sound of everyone slithering off the record. Why? In political terms, standing behind these figures would be to toss a hand grenade into a vat of gasoline. People would be hounded out of a job for scaremongering.

The Office for National Statistics' figures, published last week, predict a population of 75 million by 2051. It's an honest estimate but horribly wide of the mark because number counting doesn't work effectively. If you want to know how many there are of us, ask a food firm.

If the true numbers were revealed, the Little Englanders and xenophobes would come out in force about the evils of immigration. But that's what made America great in the 19th century, and it's a driving force of our economy right now. It's also anti-inflationary.

David Buik, a money manager with broker BGC Partners, was talking of "one million Eastern Europeans unaccounted for in London" on television last week. I suspect he's right if somewhat conservative in his estimate. How many do you see working in the construction industry and waiting at tables?

And when I say "anti-inflationary", I mean they are getting rotten wages. Dignified by the term "cheap labour", the hidden hordes will do well for the services sector, among others. People are assets – to maintain and to be maintained – so we are wealthier as a nation.

All of which is reflected in strong economic demand and markets see-sawing between optimism over what we all see on the streets (that 77 million figure feels right to me) and the possibility of something nasty if the Bank of England credit-crunch prognosis is correct (to echo last week, I think next spring will be unpleasant).

As for housing, property magnates and chief executives of housing associations alike say the expanding population means serious demand for the foreseeable future, credit crunch or no. Next week, I'll look at the detail of this argument.'

It's Yvonne Ridley time

Sorry but Yvette Ridley has done it again. Her latest mission is the Viva Palestina convoy and her log knows who to blame for the convoys lack of publicity as it roars across North Africa:

"I promised to write a daily log of my time on the “Viva Palestina” convoy but my attempts to keep you updated with events have been thwarted ever since we reached North Africa. There is a very clear agenda by some to keep Gaza out of the news and I am dismayed by the Zionist influence brought to bear in the Maghreb"

Is there nothing those evil Zionists cannot do? They are so powerful it must be difficult for the tiny countries of North Africa to refuse to do the bidding of that huge superpower Israel. Has Yvonne Ridley looked at a map recently? Here's two just to give you and her an idea of how large Israel is compared to its Muslim neighbours.





Can you find Israel? I'll give you a clue it's one of the countries which is so small that its name is bigger than the area the Country occupies on the map. It's a little, tiny country of 8,522 sq miles surrounded by Egypt 387,048 sq miles (45 times the size of Israel), Syria 71,479 sq miles (8 times the size of Israel), Jordan 45,495 sq miles (5 times the size of Israel) and Lebanon 4,035 sq miles (half the size of Israel). Let's compare with those poor bullied Maghreb countries - Libya 679,359 sq miles (80 times the size of Israel), Algeria 919,595 sq miles (108 times the size of Israel), Tunisia 63,170 sq mi (7 times the size of Israel) and Morocco 63,170 sq miles (7 times the size of Israel).

Maybe Yvonne Ridley was comparing the populations, do you really want me to go there?

Maybe Yvonne Ridley was comparing the GDPs. Ah now she might be onto something but then I suppose that could be because rather than moan and whine those bloody Jews actually created a Country based on Science and learning rather than indolence.

Are we full yet (update)

Further to this post which reported the BBC's article that:

"Immigration levels have pushed population density in England to a higher level than any other major country in Europe.

The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, indicate there is an average of 395 people in every square kilometre in England.

This is an increase of five per sq km in the past two years.

The increase has pushed England's population density above the previous highest figure set by the Netherlands."

I can now reveal that the population of Greater London has increased by over half a million over the last 10 years. That's an increase of 542,000 to 7.56 million - an increase of 8 per cent which is well above the average UK population growth rate of 5 per cent.

Anyone who has tried to use London's overcrowded transport system or queued to see a doctor in A&E or stood outside a school at the end of the day will not be surprised by this figure. Once again I ask - are we full yet?

The world shortage of food

Prince Philip puts his finger on the reason, a reason that most ignore because of a fear of being thought politically incorrect:

"The food prices are going up – everyone thinks it's to do with not enough food, but it's really that demand is too great, too many people,"

No comment just facts

From National Statistics - Review of the Registrar General on births and patterns of family building in England and Wales, 2006 comes many interesting facts. This one is on pages 48 to 50 and concerns the percentage of live births to mothers from outside of the United Kingdom. Whilst the average for England and Wales is 22% of live births to mothers born outside of the UK, the average in Manchester is 38%, Leiscester 41%, Birmingham 36%, Luton 48%, Cambridge 41%, Watford 36%, Forest Heath 50%, London as a whole 53% - split 59% for inner London and 48% for outer London, Reading 36%, Slough 53%, Oxford 42% and Crawley 31% These cities and towns are in the geographical order used in the report and I have only picked out the ones with an average of more than 30%. Looking at London in more detail, then the following boroughs have a live birth percentage to mothers born outside of the UK of More than 50% - Camden 62%, City of London 57%, Hackney 56%,HAmmersmith and Fulham 55%, Harringey 61%, Kensington and Chelsea 68%, Newham 74%, Tower Hamlets 68%, City of Westminster 70%, Brent 71%, EAling 63% and Harrow 61%.