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"Mr President, demographics, of course, is a fascinating subject, and behind great historical developments and changes there is often an untold demographic story.
Britain is now undergoing a massive population explosion which, until very recently, went unreported. When Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, we had a population of just over 58 million. That population has now grown to over 62.4 million and, on current trends, the population will grow to over 70 million by 2030 and thereafter spiral ever upwards.
Demographers calculate that all this unsustainable population growth is down to migration and births to migrants.
There is nothing wrong with some appropriate, moderate and sustainable immigration, but the UK is adding over one million people to its net population every four to five years. England is more densely populated than India, China and Japan.
Britain does not have a cohesion policy, but if it did, it would leave the European Union and regain control of its borders and its immigration policy."@en1
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