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But large chunks of its arent 'countryside' at all, its working farms, agri-business and not very good business either.
We're going to have to do something with unproductive farm land when farmers realise that farming largely doesnt pay in the UK. Why not use some of it for towns?
And more pressingly why not use the large amount of empty houses or brown field sites?
And as rubish as farming is at the moment, I doubt they would take to kindly to be told to fuck off their land so we can make more towns. There have already been points of contention over that.
I do agree with using the empty houses though.
Farming is around 3% of the land. The rest of it is for the nobility to play golf on.
Your sure??
I doubt that sumowhow.
And how much of that land is ben nevies and such like? The far up moors, moutnains, waste dumps, industry land etc etc.
Its not all golf courses.
I wasn't suggesting that we kick farmers off their land, but more and more are going to go bust or sell up so there is going to be more land about to use for building.
But anyway, thats straying from the point, you still havent explained how you would 'control' immigration and illegal immigration.
7.5 million eh?? thats just in one city, the largest city the country has and its nothing comapred to other cities round the world. If London only manages that amount then imagien the rest of the country.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841953105/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2_cp/203-7690375-5179153
The reviews there list some of the stats.
60 million of us are crammed into only 7.5% of the land mass.
1% of the population own 70% of the land
Agriculture only amounts to 3% of the UK
the UK is still being ruled as if it is still in the Middles ages
Well, just over 7 million actually ...
If by America you mean the US, then it's around 298 million ...
Yes - I know I am not contributing to any debate ... just a fountain of useless knowledge.
According to whom?
And the fact that there are more and more pensioners per worker, thats the thing to aim for too?
no its not an aim but that whole pensihions crises is the systems fault anyway so.
only 298million for the USA? Wow, swear it was more.
What international judging? By whom? When?
The systems fault? How?
Yes and they eat our swans.
Idiot. :rolleyes:
try 7.5 million and you'd be nearer the mark
also they had no controls on private comapny pensions, the ones where you pay in2 a pension, then they go and invest it, lose all your money and you get nothing at the end of it.
that practice should be made illegal in my opinion.
umm, the UN? Nato? WTO? I just know its the international standard.
Growing populations out of control is bad, populations dying at increased bad, stable balance = good
Without immigrants, even those some describe as 'illegal', Britain would be fucked.
What practice? Investing pension funds in the stock market? That would be every pension fund made illegal then.
Again, you arent exactly all that credible, someone who may or may not be international, judging something by some standards you dont know.
I haven't the faintest idea what you mean by the last line, it just seems like random words put together.
Its not every pension, its those that put money on the stock market with no permission given and then lost. Also there should be safegauard sfor those that pay into pensions and then the company loots the pension funds as they are in dire straigts and then workers don't get any money as the firm has gone bust.
I was explaining what it means.
Look, if you really wanna know, read uup on it. I had to. Now I don't and I am at work an so specifics don't come readinly to mind.
I just knwo the countries are judgeed on many things including populations and ever increasing ones and ever dying ons are seen as not the top flight as it were.
You know what could happen before you sign up to a private pension.
You're right, there should be safeguards to protect those who pay into final salary pension schemes. But if a company goes bust the it goes bust. The problem is that if one company purchases another, it doesn't have to take on the pensions liability. Many don't.
I though there were reports that compnaies had done the stock market thng without the stakers permission? Obviously if they do then thats the risk you take so yeah nothing wrong with that.
Personally I think the government needs to stepp in when thes epoepl have paid into the pnesion all their life and then w on't get any of their money back just coz the company fucked up.
Private pensions are invested on the stock market. That's how the necessary returns are made. You pays your money, you takes your choice. Standard Life showed that its foolish to only have one basket of eggs.
On that basis the government should keep paying their wages when the company goes bust too.
WHo else can step in to save that poor person's money? Not any millionaires I'll tell you.
Blagsta wants to mug half of London's 'fat cats' and Aladdin wants to stretch the 50% tax bracket to cover everything.
It doesn't need to come from anywhere.
All that needs to happen is that the government monopoly on currency production is removed. Simple.
The main reason why pensions have to be had in the first place is inflation, and inflation can only happen if you only have one money supply. It's the most insidious tax of all.
it must be forzen and not touched by the comapny no matter what the circumstance and shoudl only be used for pensions.