Given the immigration rate, it’s hard to see how Britain’s housing crunch might be eased anytime soon.
Despite a looming financial crisis, made worse by lunatic net-zero policies, the U.K. must be on the edge of, to borrow a phrase, a “golden age.”
How so?
The BBC:
The UK is estimated to have recorded a population growth of more than three-quarters of a million in the year to June 2024.
This is the second-largest annual increase since the late 1940s, and England saw a faster increase rate than the rest of the UK.
Net international migration, which is the difference between people moving into the country and leaving, accounted for 98% of the UK’s overall population growth, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
In mid-2024, 69.3 million people were estimated to be in the UK, up from 68.5 million in mid-2023.
The BBC doesn’t mention when the second-largest increase since the 1940s took place.
Well, it was way back when, during the twelve months that ended in June 2023.
Oh.
The net increase for that period was estimated at 662,400, with all the increase coming from immigration (deaths exceeded births).
And in case you were also wondering, those two twelve-month periods were times when the Conservatives, the party of the “Boriswave,” were still in charge, if that’s the right word. Quite why so many Brits are switching to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK (which is currently topping the polls, favored by 34 percent) remains a complete mystery. Clearly Brits cannot understand that population growth is the key to prosperity (or so I am often told).
The governing Labour Party stands at 22 percent in the polls, and the Tories (gets out microscope) are at 14 percent, just ahead of the “Liberal” Democrats (12 percent) and the redder-by-the-hour Greens (also at 12 percent).
Britain faces a severe housing crunch. A little over 200,000 homes were completed in 2024. At these rates of immigration, it’s hard to see that crunch, which is contributing to the current destabilization of the country’s politics, being eased anytime soon.
H/t: Matt Goodwin