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So there's no population boom.
Most of this article is talking about a speculative boom that might happen and what that could mean.
Meanwhile all of the current problems are attributed to not enough staff and chronic underfunding.
What an awful shitty article posing as journalism.
Well it is the i, owned and published by the daily mail
Holy shit, you're right. Well that has just plummeted my trust in I.
Confirmed. No boom : https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/
Might happen vs predicted to happen.
May seem like a small difference. But its really not. It changes possible to probable.
That said. The prediction is based on no changes. So you know full well this is being jumped on by right-wing media that have other reasons for arguing the change.
IE its about rich not wanting to pay the taxes needed to support the future p opulation. So arguing for anti immigration as a cost saving that won't effect them.