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[email protected] · January 10th 17, 12:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:12:46 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:51:35 on Tue, 10 Jan
2017, d remarked:
I assume the discussion is about the Greater London population. Hopefully
Spud won't get his wish if he wants enough people to be working to pay
for his pension.

I pay for a private pension, I don't require the next generation to do it
for me thanks. Also that whole paying pensions argument falls apart since
it appears to require a constantly increasing working age population which
is completely unsustainable, so better to bite the bullet now and halt
population growth rather than wreck the country then STILL have to deal
with the problem of pensions at a later date anyway.

You've spotted a weakness which applies a lot more widely than to pensions
but it's still the only way your state pension will be paid.

The age of retirement is slowly being raised so that should solve the problem
at least partially. More workers in the job market without requiring
immigrants

How many redundant Southern Guards, aged 70+ want to work in all
weathers picking crops in the Fens?

If that was the only place immigrants were taking jobs then that would be a
valid question, but as you know - it isn't. I'm currently sitting in an office
60% immigrants, none of them doing a job that couldn't have been done by
a native. And in fact 1 position was illegally filled since it wasn't
advertised in the UK before a foreign director found someone in his own country
to fill it for a pittance salary.

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Spud