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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    Most of the new housing is planned for England, where the built-up percentage is far greater than 6%. Any new major developments should therefore go to the other 3 nations of the UK, particularly Scotland, which are far less densely populated.
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    So what do you do when there's no more space, or there's not enough water etc.?
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    Members of my family are from an Asian background. 1665327262 Population increase is not the only cause of the housing shortage, but eventually we will reach saturation point. That is why I think there needs to be a "Net Zero Population Increase" policy, i.e. setting a ceiling on immigration...
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    316,000 according to Migrationwatch. 1665321609 Look in the mirror!
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    So your answer is to allow another 7 billion people to settle in the UK then is it?
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    Perfectly true, but immigrants get old and require care too, so we must find ways of dealing with these shortages without requiring an ever-increasing population (up by nearly 40% since WW2). For example, the UK currently recruits trained medical personnel from abroad, resulting in shortages in...
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    ...chaired by an immigrant - Alp Mehmet.
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    "Total long-term immigration by those of all citizenships (715,000)" according to https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/statistics-net-migration-statistics
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    Locomotive names which may be unacceptable these days

    To be acceptable, the "A" in the name plate would have had to be changed to an "O".
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    Why has electrification not got further in the UK?

    Any electrification programme will be so glacial that there'll be plenty of time to order the appropriate trains.
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    The housing crisis and ways to fix it?

    Today there are more homes in the UK than there have ever been, but there is still a housing shortage, because the population is continuing to increase. This is not primarily due to a baby boom, as was the case after WW2, but because of immigration, currently over 700,000 a year. There is no...
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    Locomotive names which may be unacceptable these days

    Wasn't there a proposal in the late 1960s to name a GWR express locomotive after the Transport Minister of the day - "Barbara Castle"? Not to mention "King Kong".
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    Royal Mail discussion

    I am old enough to remember the postal strike in 1971. This had a great impact on users as the only alternatives were the fixed-line telephone and telex and possibly a few fax machines. Today the impact is far less, so it is quite likely that the postal service will be slimmed down. My own...
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    Royal Mail discussion

    Could come in handy as fuel this winter!
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    Royal Mail discussion

    The Royal Mail lost the plot IMO with the changeover to barcoded stamps. Instead of allowing old stamps to be swapped for new at Post Offices, they insisted that stamps be posted to FREEPOST SWAP OUT. Unsurprisingly, there are reports of some of these being pinched en route!
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