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Old 25th Feb 2011, 20:36
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SRENNAPS
 
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Its a numbers game!!

Pr00ne,

My apologies, but I did not mean to cause offence with my post. I just thought that it was amusing that I found that BBC link shortly after reading your initial post. As I said; “good” timing.

Anyway water under the bridge now as I noticed that the report from that link has now changed, quite considerably.

I do have a couple questions for you though. You talk of 787,000 born here against 237,000 settled here. Do you not need to also consider that approximately 650,000 die here?

Also, if it was to come down to voting for a government, it would be 18 years before that 787,000 could vote but the 237,000 (who apparently have an average age of between 25 and 28) would be able to vote straight away!

I am just playing devil’s advocate here, but based upon what has happened in the last 39 years, the mathematics suggest that 2050 could actually be quite a close call!!
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