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Thread #123889   Message #2733304
Posted By: Royston
28-Sep-09 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: The BNP conundrum
Subject: RE: BS: The BNP conundrum
Oh just go and do one Keith.

Your latest URL, which you probably read as carefully as all the others still has no comparative data. Just a sprinkling of random numbers - example: after the war 157,000 poles settled here. It gives no year on year data that we can compare with current data. That was in any event just a side-thought on my part. The substance of our dispute, as I said from the outset, is that we are not experiencing "record" or "unprecedented" immigration of any sort, and that has been proven by me and by others.

England is no more an adminstrative country than is Kent or Essex or Hertfordshire. The ONS has stats for those as well. To make a comparison you have to compare like for like and when you compare administrative countries then GB is not "about the most densely populated..." which was your ridiculous claim. Even England doesn't meet that claim but to compare it with the whole of France, as you did, is fatuous in the extreme and serves only to boost your paranoia and that of certain others.

Here's an example of like for like. Greater London density: 4,761/km2 as opposed to Paris at 20,164/km2 - that's 5 times the population density of London.

Or you could compare UK / France as I did earlier.

Basically all your assertions about immigration are shown to be false and I don't much care whether you or Sam H hear the truth from me or from Emma B or from whomever.