On 2009-10-15 09:49:32 +0100, Steve Haywood 
<[email protected]> said:

> 2009/10/15 David Sullivan 
> [email protected]
> 
>> 
>> AFAIAA the rate of population growth in Britain is less than 2.0
>> children per family but there is a reason which we all know that
>> causes the population to keep rising.
>> 
> 
> What's that then? I hope you weren't thinking 't immigration because it
> still remains the case that there's more people leaving the country than
> coming into it.


Purely in the interests of accuracy and with absolutely no axe to 
grind, I don't think that's right:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/emig1107.pdf
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7737134.stm
amongst others.

Robin Lewis


Reply via email to