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.......and that should be determined by the British, not a faceless E.U. parliament. That said even this government & especially the last shower were bent on letting any scumbag into the country many with no grasp of the English language or even the remotest tie to the UK. Certain races don't assimilate that's a fact. There was a case last year where a fella was being charged with rape he had been here 20 odd years yet needed a translator (even the judge remarked on this)

Pro USA & Israel

How can you plan for housing, education, healthcare and infrastructure when you're unsure of what the population will be in 5 years time?

Do you mean to cope with all the extra people pouring into this country ?

We can all quote figures and perhaps bore all and sundry.I could assert that migration from EU is projected to rise to over 400,000 per annum by 2030 with 5 mill more EU immigrants by this year.Furthermore the NHS bill would have to increase by £9 BILL by 2030 to cope with the extra numbers etc etc etc.NHS would need an additional 14,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses to maintain current levels.And net migration to UK from EU is running at 184,000 a record high blah,blah,blah......

Anyhow getting into a figures "War" is perhaps very tedious to the majority on here so I shall get off my "Soapbox" now otherwise I will get embroiled in a lengthy debate which will only WILLO this thread.Think it best I stay off this topic as it already occupies a lot of my life outside of HOL and frankly my wife has had enough of me going on and on about it incessantly !!!!

That's it from me !

Edited by Willo (29 May 2016 12.18pm)

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When are they going to start doing that then? They clearly aren't at the moment, presuming your simplistic solution will work.

Your views are welcome on here Willo regardless of what your missus says. ...and i have just returned from church (where i read the lesson) so will similarly get off my pulpit....but your stats say the nhs will need an extra £9bn by 2030 whats that 5-7%? And you attribute all of this rise to immigration? Do you not think that part of it could be attributable to an ageing population? Or maybe adavances in medical science or demographic trends that mean people(particularly men) are using the nhs more? Or the rising cost of treatment and drugs? But you infer that its all due to immigration.....when the ceo of the nhs says that brexit is a significant threat to the future of the nhs..which could lead to a 14billion decline in nhs spending.
I know you will say this is 'scaremongering' from the head of the nhs which seems the only explanation for most of the out campaign at the moment but tell me this.....if you had a serious medical condition and found out that over 90% of doctors advised on a certain course of treatment with the usual disclosure that there could be no 100% guarantees of success but that the alternative could well cause more significant damage even though they may be good homeopathic treatments, or leeches or just the experience of that bloke Colin down the pub who insists doctors are just guessing and trying to scare you, would you really just ignore the 90% of doctors?........really?