Very easy to say that from the sparsely populated tranquillity of the Scottish highlands. When Scotland has the same population density as England your glens will be concreted over, you hills and mountains will be strung with pylons, your roads will gridlocked, your lowland countryside will vanish under a sea of development and your deserted west coast beaches will become resort towns and bolt-hole developments for wealthy urban migrants seeking to escape the human fallout from that which has made them wealthy. And throw away your telescope because the night sky will be a starless orange glow. If that is what you wish for Scotland then carry on but you won't like it. And you won't be any better off. You'll have no more prosperity, just much less space, less freedom and less happiness but more government and more bureaucracy to manage (and more corporatism to grow rich from) the dependent population - which is why politicians, bureaucrats and corporate business always conspire to pursue economic models based on endless consumption and expansion. If by saying that the population is too centralised you mean that the numbers we have now should be better spread rather than added to, you are welcome to take 20 or 30 million of ours until the numbers balance up.
I don't see a solution @bradders , as long as we base our economy on "growth". Somehow we need to transition to a more sustainable economic model without our world imploding. As the gumball analogy shows the levels of immigration we currently have is a sop to the conscience of the liberal elites, it is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. Should we open up our borders to all, as our lefties would like, and see our living standards fall, or build a wall to keep them out (the immigrants not the lefties). Neither seems like a very satisfactory solution to me. So let's continue to muddle along and accept a small number of immigrants who have the skills that we require and target foreign aid where it does some real good and not just let it flood into the Swiss bank accounts of dictators.
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plenty space up here, i genuinely understand your cynicism, i hear it up here from time to time. i dont see a problem with more government, break up Westminster. more devolved parliaments around England (maybe not the most financially efficient) but society isnt all about efficiency. get your northern powerhouse, get the wealth spread out and the people will follow. i understand the immigration issues you have,just one of the broken promises in the last two years shifted 2000+jobs + knock on to london. maybe if all the stars align we could take em back and help you out with a few more of the banking sector jobs.along with all the add on's that go with it :Angelic:. cant see it happening but hay you never know.
