Migrants
add 5.8 million to bulging Britain
Immigration is looking like the main force behind Britain’s
booming population with a number set at 10 million rise within the next 25
years which in itself would make a city equivalent to London. The Office of
national statistics has released that the population is set to rise by 9.6
million by 2037 which would raise the population to 73.3 million people. A 60%
increase which is equivalent to 5.8 million people is linked to immigration
either from new arrivals or people having children when they arrive or settle
in Britain.
The British Prime Minister will come under great
scrutiny after the pledge he made which was to reduce net immigration to “tens
of thousands”. Now they are expecting 165000 migrants per year, each year until
2037.
This new data has come from growing concerns over
the new wave of Bulgarian and Romanian set to enter when the current
restrictions are lifted. This new wave will bring in 50000 people a year moving
into the country. This leaves Britain with a massive issue; they are experiencing
and set to experience unsustainable influx of migration for their current carrying
capacity.
Sir Andrew Green, who is the chairman of Migration
watch UK, has said “the figures underlined the need to have a net migration
target and stick to it”... he then goes onto say “These latest projections
confirm that we are still on course for a substantial increase in population”.
The ONS (Office of National Statistics) have also predicted
an additional 4.2 million immigrants to come post 2037. The children of the immigrants
would count for 1.6 million of the rise in population. These statistics show
that 1 in 5 of the pupils in primary education are speaking another language at
home.
This growing number of the population also addresses
the other issue of lack of schools to hold all these new people, they just don’t
have the infrastructure to hold this many.
This social problems related to this issue for
Britain can be related to the educational sector, the education needs to
improve so that skilled British people can enter and compete with the immigrants
for the work. Currently it is just an open field for immigrants and until the
skilled British people improve, the population will continue to grow in terms
of net immigration. It has been found by the government that one fifth of jobs
in the key industries are taken up by immigrants all because they are ready and
skilled to work over the British.
James Dougherty
4:09pm
11/8/13
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