Crowded Britain

[Tubby Isaacs]

Crowded Britain

Well clearly there's arseholes in there, and it's right wing. But it seemed better than the other right wing papers. So I can understand where Bryan's coming from.

Or do you mean that I have a friend that reads it? It's his 90 year old mum who does. I considered taxing her out of it but decided to draw the line.

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

Oh you said Liddle... as you were

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

Are we talking about the 'English' Times, HoH?

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

I'm not sure about that. I've read a couple of good articles in there when I go round to a friend of mine's house. On one day there were two articles ridiculing both "Broken Britain" and the idea that it could be fixed without spending any money. Perhaps that was a further right-wing attack on Cameron but it seemed constructive enough to me.

Dare I say it: Middle-class person in 'caught' shock.

You dont actually believe any of it Tubby? Say it aint so...

Crowded Britain

I buy the Irish edition of the Sunday Times solely for the sport section too, much to my shame.

Their GAA coverage is very good. Unfortunately they have that illiterate wanker Rod Liddle sitting in for McIlvanney at the moment.

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

Really GO? You can still smoke in a bar, there? Lucky buggers.

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

Hieronymus of Hesselink wrote:

Bryantop wrote:

I didn't realise they had become the Daily Mail.

The Times has always been a very right-wing paper, even leaving to one side the fact that News Corporation owns it. Not quite as right-wing as the Mail, for sure, but it's no surprise to see them running stuff like this.

In the last few years (since Labour took over), they have tried to be as liberal as possible. I buy it at weekends (Sunday is a different entity, I only buy it for sport) but recently, they have retracted into the shithole Rupert-fest that it previously was.

I cant wait for that twat to die. He is the bastards' bastard.

[Gangster Octopus]

Crowded Britain

gerontophile wrote:

Stumpy Pepys wrote:

what explains the German population drop?

They've all nipped over the border so they can smoke.

Which border? (seriously)

Well, when they want a bit of space, it's usually Poland...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Crowded Britain

I'm not sure about that. I've read a couple of good articles in there when I go round to a friend of mine's house. On one day there were two articles ridiculing both "Broken Britain" and the idea that it could be fixed without spending any money. Perhaps that was a further right-wing attack on Cameron but it seemed constructive enough to me.

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

Stumpy Pepys wrote:

what explains the German population drop?

They've all nipped over the border so they can smoke.

Which border? (seriously)

Crowded Britain

Bryantop wrote:

I didn't realise they had become the Daily Mail.

The Times has always been a right-wing paper, even leaving to one side the fact that News Corporation owns it. Not as right-wing as the Mail, for sure, but it's no surprise to see them running stuff like this.

Crowded Britain

The way to get rid of the old people problem is to lower taxes on cigs and booze and also to stop worrying that we're all eating ourselves into an early grave, fat lardy fatpants that we all are.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Crowded Britain

what explains the German population drop?

They've all nipped over the border so they can smoke.

[Gerontophile]

Crowded Britain

hazarding a guess: death.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Crowded Britain

You're still stuck with us.

AB, what explains the German population drop?

[Eggchaser]

Crowded Britain

I thought we were all going to be saddled with old gits like Tubby stubbornly refusing to die and taking up all the room.

Old people. They're the housing equivalent of bed blockers.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Crowded Britain

Excellent more people to pay my pension.

I agree about The Times headline and the word crowded.

[Andy C]

Crowded Britain

Fourth, behind Malta, the Netherlands and Belgium. Malta's population density is huge - over three times that of the next highest. Big surprise, that.

[Alderman Barnes]

Crowded Britain

A quick google shows that it's already the third highest in Europe (244 per km2) after the Netherlands (393) and Belgium (337).

England already has 383, so it will be the most densely populated country by then if there's some kind of devolution.

I agree on the use of the word "crowded", though.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Crowded Britain

I seriously doubt Britain is going to have the highest population density in the EU

I think it's second or third highest already.

[anton pulisov]

Headline in The Times yesterday:

"Britain set to be Europe’s most crowded nation as immigrants swell population to 77 million"

I didn't realise they had become the Daily Mail. The use of the word swell is especially charming.

There were also talking about this on 5 Live, how Britain is set to be the most "crowded" nation in the EU.

I though "crowded" had to do with population density, and not absolute population. I seriously doubt Britain is going to have the highest population density in the EU.

"Crowded" is such a BNP word.