Making the news today....

[Khriss]

24 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Seems a shame that we can’t fill those white bits 

Booking flight to Marshal Isle as we speak  ( divin supposed to be good there)  will raise flag n raze villages.  K

[tree-fancier123]

19 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Too right, serious stuff, invading other countries:)

Countries in white are where Great Britain/Uk/England whatever HASN’T attacked/invaded.

I suppose seeing as you've emigrated you have to be a bit pro free movement  of people - my mum has been in France for 30 years, can't have a rant to her about immigration, at least can't get her to see we are crowding them in like sardines now. 

Your map was taken in the good old days of the world - where land was plentiful. It's hard to imagine the world population was only about a quarter of what it is today after World War 1.

I say the British were guilty of crimes against humanity in the expansionist phase - but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight to keep our Island from being overcrowded now - there is no room for compassion when we are destroying so much of our countryside to make way for new housing. 

You want to go build enough houses to keep all these new people? Absolute crying shame what's happening to our once beautiful land

Net migration to the UK, the difference between immigration and emigration, was estimated to be 258,000 in 2018. This is down from a peak of 336,000 in the year ending June 2016, just before the EU referendum

 

each year another quarter of a million come over the picture above spreads out across our beautiful land like a cancer

[eggsarascal]

2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

The thing is the young men come over, get their foot in the door then bring their family and extended family over at a later date. 

It is a fact, fancy admitting that as a lefty!

[Guest Gimlet]

3 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

The thing is the young men come over, get their foot in the door then bring their family and extended family over at a later date. 

And the tribalism, misogyny and intolerant thinking that caused the failure of their own societies in the first place and all the subsequent misery they're supposedly trying to escape from. 

If they were so enterprising and resourceful they'd fix the mess they've left behind. 

Edited April 19, 2020 by Gimlet

[devon TWiG]

3 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

I suppose seeing as you've emigrated you have to be a bit pro free movement  of people - my mum has been in France for 30 years, can't have a rant to her about immigration, at least can't get her to see we are crowding them in like sardines now. 

Your map was taken in the good old days of the world - where land was plentiful. It's hard to imagine the world population was only about a quarter of what it is today after World War 1.

I say the British were guilty of crimes against humanity in the expansionist phase - but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight to keep our Island from being overcrowded now - there is no room for compassion when we are destroying so much of our countryside to make way for new housing. 

You want to go build enough houses to keep all these new people? Absolute crying shame what's happening to our once beautiful land

Net migration to the UK, the difference between immigration and emigration, was estimated to be 258,000 in 2018. This is down from a peak of 336,000 in the year ending June 2016, just before the EU referendum

 

each year another quarter of a million come over the picture above spreads out across our beautiful land like a cancer

The great myth of urban Britain

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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What proportion of Britain do you reckon is built on? By that I mean covered by buildings, roads, car parks, railways, paths...

 

[trigger_andy]

4 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

The great myth of urban Britain

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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What proportion of Britain do you reckon is built on? By that I mean covered by buildings, roads, car parks, railways, paths...

 

Such a misleading article. You just have to look at the light pollution in the articles own picture to see what nonsense it is. Its like looking at a virus spreading in a Petri dish. We've also bisected the landscape to such a degree that wildlife simply does not have a chance. What is not built on is given over to farmland and the issues that causes as well. That will need to increase in relation to the population as well as we'll have more mouth's to feed, more homes needing built and more roads needed to connect them all. Thank feck Scotland is so rugged and isolated that the prospect of urbanising it like England will not happen in my generation. Hopefully in my Children's, or Grand Children's Generation we realise the folly of what we're doing, or something comes along and makes that decision for us. 

[openspaceman]

24 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

something comes along and makes that decision for us. 

What makes you think it hasn't?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

3 hours ago, Gimlet said:

And the tribalism, misogyny and intolerant thinking that caused the failure of their own societies

I’d add - nepotism, corruption and hypocrisy to that mix. 

[trigger_andy]

6 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

What makes you think it hasn't?

For example?

[donnk]

On 23/03/2020 at 18:52, Matthew Storrs said:

Feel your pain. I suspect everyone is feeling the frustration to not crack on as per normal. I have a lot of work ahead of me- 95% of it involves not seeing a soul all day- but if we are put in lock down- I guess it can’t be one rule for one and another for another? The twist of the blade is the nice weather on the cards for the next two weeks- been waiting for this for 6 months!

 

Regarding childcare- my other half is a ‘key’ worker. But the school sent us a letter (and I agree with them) saying If the partners are not key workers then the child should stay at home. I wouldn’t want her going to school anyway. So we are in lock down in the garden at the moment!

you are 100% fine going to work as you cannot work from home, just practice sensible distancing if it takes your fancy.

 

We havent stopped on site, if anyone starts sounding a bit rough then off home they go but it hasnt happened yet.