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A comment on EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled.

Re:EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled by bb101 on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:52AM (#27152212)
With worldwide population growth curves flattening and population pyramids inverting, countries of tomorrow will be positively clamouring for immigrants.

A good book to read on the topic is Empty Planet by Bricker & Ibbitson[1]. One of their observations is that the country best placed to weather the coming demographic storm is the US, as they have a ready supply of immigrants south of their border. Every other country will have to compete, and some such as China will be in dire straits due to past misguided policies.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37585564-empty-planet

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Re:EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled by nob0dyasked on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:55AM (#27152228)
Sorry, but no. The solution to inverting population pyramids is not immigration. It's having more children where they are lacking, while having less where there's an excess.

After millions and millions of new europeans, the public finances issues haven't got a tad better.

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Re:EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled by periheli0n on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:00AM (#27152259)
Is this the fault of the "new europeans" which mostly came to the UK for a job, earn money and pay taxes, or the fault of those in charge of the public finances?
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Re:EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled by nob0dyasked on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:02AM (#27152273)
Not speaking about UK, but about Europe and the waves of "pension-paying" immigration.

And yeah I won't bite the bait about supposed mismanagement in tory governments which I have no interest at all in debating in this website.

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