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'we want an ethnic breakdown of the population explosion'

errrm, why does it matter?

Ethnic breakdowns are not needed.. Mohammed continues to retake top spot in English baby names.. Its the most popular names for at least the past 7 or so years...
And its relevance: See http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151715/https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/RTP01-03MIG1734.pdf

Ah yes, Islam, that religion that isn't famed for having adherents all of one single ethnicity.

Perhaps you could say what you think the relevance of your link is, instead of relying on innuendo.

Please don't encourage him.

I think its under point 1. Key Findings. Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Irish Traveller suck, all the others are doing ok, Chinese FTW.

first the royal baby now edinburgh zoo announcing their own arrival
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/10232523/First-baby-panda-could-be-born-in-UK-within-weeks.html
what a year

Fucking pandas. I'm fucking sick of pandas. They should have been extinct years ago. Pathetic animals.

yup
they don't help themselves do they
long gestations
fussy finickity lovers
bad breath eating all that bamboo
and bloody tasty to boot

Mmmm. Pandaburger.

you've had it too
delicious aren't they
in chengdu they do the best panda burgers EVAR

Recycling Bins are stalking you via your phones wifi and MAC code...

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/08/recycling-bin-following-you/6475/

WiFi on my phone is being turned off now.

The modern world is going a bit 1984

Orson Welles filum http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/longlost-orson-welles-film-is-found-in-italian-warehouse-8752949.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/troopers-texas-probe-genitals-women-traffic-stops-article-1.1414668
How this doesn't constitute rape, I don't know.

Schools and gym class fully of Bullies. This is a new thing apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17728120

'we want an ethnic breakdown of the population explosion'

errrm, why does it matter?

On one level (and country of origin rather than ethnic background) it matters because these numbers will be used to predict future income and employment levels, and therefore spending levels. Aside from the shorter-term costs of housing, schooling and health provision, If most of the babies are born to people who have settled here then they can probably be expected to contribute to the country's budget in the future. If they haven't then no such assurances can be inferred, and spending plans ought to be made on the assumption instead that that income will not be available.

For example the more mobile EU migrants might very well move with their families back to their countries of origin, or to other EU countries, at some point in the future, whereas non-EU migrants are more likely to stay in Britain.

Schools and gym class fully of Bullies. This is a new thing apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17728120

Taunts, teasing and swearing is apparently common on school sports fields

I am utterly appalled at what this country has become.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3cayRMnVb8

Oh and on that note, the most important thing to happen on the 31st of August is ME BEING BORN not anything else. You'll see what I mean at the end of the month.

Oh and on that note, the most important thing to happen on the 31st of August is ME BEING BORN not anything else.

And I thought you had already been born--how wrong one can be.

The top rated comments on this BBC article are depressing. 'Closet racists' indeed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23618487

You wouldn't believe the comments beneath the Doreen Lawrence going to the House Of Lords on the Telegraph website, there were over twenty pages of unimaginable racist filth, accusing the Lawrences of all kinds of absurd things, including Mr Lawrence being famous for driving around north London screaming abuse at police officers, a neat trick, considering he lives in Jamaica. Many got deleted. I dunno if the Torygraph website's been invaded by BNP knuckle draggers, I prefer to think so, the alternative is just too depressing.

country of origin rather than ethnic background

This is the crucial difference, and the focus on the latter was what really surprised and disappointed me. The former, I agree, is very important in the analysis of the effect of demographic trends on spending and taxation going into the future.

You wouldn't believe the comments beneath the Doreen Lawrence going to the House Of Lords on the Telegraph website, there were over twenty pages of unimaginable racist filth, accusing the Lawrences of all kinds of absurd things, including Mr Lawrence being famous for driving around north London screaming abuse at police officers, a neat trick, considering he lives in Jamaica. Many got deleted. I dunno if the Torygraph website's been invaded by BNP knuckle draggers, I prefer to think so, the alternative is just too depressing.

That a lot of torys are racist and even with the loss of a few to the BNP and UKIP there are still enough to make stupid statements on a website?

^
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23617555
etc etc.

Oh and on that note, the most important thing to happen on the 31st of August is ME BEING BORN not anything else. You'll see what I mean at the end of the month.

Yay, born again Ben. Will there be pictures?