Keith,

I haven't dropped the challenge on "unprecedented". You are ignoring it. I have asked you to provide evidence that supports your "unprecedented" statement. I can find no evidence. You need to prove your statements, not me.

I actually over-estimated you, believe it or not. I thought that you had the sense to compare like with like figures but I was even wrong about that.

You take the density for England, which is not a "state" or politically organised "country" and you start to compare it with other whole countries. And you wonder why you piss me off?

England, as a region of the UK, contains some major conurbations - London, Midlands, Manchester/Liverpool, Leeds/Bradford - think of them as the "greater" areas of those cities. FFS, over 10% of the UK population lives in Greater London alone. I have to go to work now but for starters I went HERE and found that about 11,000,000 live in the conurbations. That's a heck of a lot of people and it makes the rest of the land-mass pretty bloody empty, you fool.

If you want to look at regions then, taking your fatuous French comparison, you should compare the "England" figure with, say, five French arondissements that include the cities Paris, Marseille, Lyons, Toulouse and Nice.

Your claims are unproven. Your use of figures amounts to lying.