Vocal Voices

On the same lines as the water companies but a bit wider in scope.

In the last twenty years the population of this country has grown by 8 million people, most of this driven by immigration.
That is the equivalent of seven cities the size of Birmingham.

How many GP's surgeries would it take for seven Birminghams?
How many hospitals? How many police stations? How many schools and Universities? How many local councils? How many jails?
And all of these facilities buildings would have to be staffed and paid for by the public.

For a fact, those schools, hospitals, surgeries, police stations etc haven't been built or staffed.
Now it's a bit easier to see why the NHS is in a permanent state of crisis, why we don't have enough doctors and why you never see a police officer.

As an aside we also need more reservoirs, power stations, roads, railways etc.
The last reservoir to be built was thirty years since. The last nuclear power station built was in the 1990's. All our nuclear power stations bar one are due to go off line in less than ten years. Anyone see a problem here?

Nobody is doing any long term planning, and it is going to bite us very badly unless someone starts.

Cromwell, you do know that you are not allowed to say any of that. Expect a midnight knock on the door.

The population increase is solely down to birth and death rates - nothing else. So say the snowflakes. We know that is not true, but are not allowed to say so.

We are so fit, educated and law-abiding that we do not need the other stuff. NHS, doctors, dentists, schools, police, housing - pah.

Reservoirs, for water, do be brief. Some were old and past their use by dates, fair enough, but where are the new ones? And where is the NGfW? It does not exist.

In fact if you have a small and antiquated reservoir for prior populations, you would, the thinking goes, replace them with larger, modern and fully up to date reservoirs.

What did they do? Created a 20ft diameter water main surrounding London and made the storing of water someone else's problem. Simply they would just pay for it and it would arrive. Wonder how that's working out right now? When does the reality that scarcity of a product may make it "none at any price", intrude into the. erm. planning. Or lack of it?