Today's Press Release announcement by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that the population of the UK - if present trends continue - will increase to 70 million by 2030 may, at last, have put the issue of population growth firmly on the political and policy agenda.
There have long been calls for the UK, along with other countries, to have a population policy. See the Optimum Population Trust's website - http://www.optimumpopulation.org/ OPT suggest that without this there can be no prospect of meeting targets for reducing green house gas emissions.
However, the subject of population has only started to be seriously aired again by the British media - after being topical in the 1970s - in the last couple of years because of economic growth and political correctness agendas which the New Labour and their supporters have championed.
By way of illustration, it is impossible to access the website of Migration Watch at Worcester City Library, and to attempt this generates the following message : Access Denied: Forbidden, this page (http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/) is categorized as: Extreme. *
Migration Watch have highlighted the problems of mass immigration for this country in recent years in terms of its impact on social and physical infrastructure, and the implications of present trends in planning for the future.
This week the organisation published a report commissioned from consultancy Oxford Economics - who also advise a wide range of government organisations so they can't be regarded as particularly radical - on the growth in migration to the the UK.
However, the issue of migration, which the ONS have identified as the largest direct and indirect - because of higher birth rates amongst migrants - contributor to recent and projected population growth has effectively been censored by the present Government. I wonder why.
* 25. 11.09 This website can now be accessed through the public library computer system
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