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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Two things can be true at once - there can be too many people for the infrastructure to cope with, and there can be too many cuts going on.

Cutting immigration would result in a declining, ageing population without a working-age taxable population to support (financially and physically) those people and the entire care infrastructure would collapse. "Less people" isn't a solution, unless the route to "less people" is (to be blunt) killing off the elderly.

It always makes me laugh when people claim that working-age immigrants are the major drain on health and care services. When it's old people. No ifs, ands or buts... the over-75's are such a massive drain on the healthcare system, that heavy smokers and drinkers actually end up being less of an overall drain on resources purely because they die younger.