Talpa Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Baby Boom is now a bigger contributor to population growth than immigration.... does that mean everyone who is anti-immigration will now be anti-reproduction? How much are all those babies going to cost in terms of education/ health etc etc?!!!???? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/population-growth-uk-birth-rate-immigration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 At my time of life I'm just hoping there'l be enough of them in employment to support me when I retire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Baby Boom is now a bigger contributor to population growth than immigration.... does that mean everyone who is anti-immigration will now be anti-reproduction? How much are all those babies going to cost in terms of education/ health etc etc?!!!???? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/population-growth-uk-birth-rate-immigration a lot less than we are going to cost them. We need more births up here just to stay still and not depopulate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunnered Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 At my time of life I'm just hoping there'l be enough of them in employment to support me when I retire. Absolutely right! Let's have more baby-booms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talpa Posted August 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 We need more births up here just to stay still and not depopulate. I agree, and likewise we need more people moving here from other places. But my question is whether this makes many anti-immigration arguments, across the UK, flawed? Or at least means that those making them have to accept that logically they now need be equally anti-baby booms? I'm not anti-baby booms (short term burden, long term beneficial?) But for the anti-immigration camp the implications of this inconvenient news are that they should now be campaigning to curb reproduction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talpa Posted August 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I wonder if the boom is related to the recession, folk, em, making their own entertainment as it were? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 A party that tries to prevent baby booming will i think lose. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518YGQ1S0PL._SL500_AA240_.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 If old people are living longer healthier lives, they can work longer. I'm sure when I'm 65 then I'll be moaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piggywiggie Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 no moe baby booms please!! everyone seems to have one...new must have fashion item?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlinkedstudent Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 no moe baby booms please!! everyone seems to have one...new must have fashion item?! Na, they just after the £250 the Government gives them for the kid's trust fund so they can get a huge massive hi-fi with 700 watts per channel speakers when they reach 18 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piggywiggie Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 oooh dont get me started on benifits hahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 ^ Everyone who has had a baby since 2006 (I think) gets £250 to put in a trust fund for the child to claim when they become of age. It is not income tested, it doesn't matter if the child is born into a family of well-paid doctors or a couple of unemployed chavs, the money is given to the parents for the child. It's not part of the "benefits" system, as far as I am aware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlinkedstudent Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 ^ Everyone who has had a baby since 2006 (I think) gets £250 to put in a trust fund for the child to claim when they become of age. It is not income tested, it doesn't matter if the child is born into a family of well-paid doctors or a couple of unemployed chavs, the money is given to the parents for the child. It's not part of the "benefits" system, as far as I am aware. Well, it is a benefit paid by the Government, as is Child Benefit/Child Tax Credit. Whether means tested or not, it is a benefit, albeit not in the same vein as Income Support, etc. Personally, I don't like the idea of giving £250 to every person who decides to have a kid. That said, we are long way behind some other countries in Europe - I was told that you get the equivalent of £1,000 in Belgium when child is born! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattie Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Regarding the Child Trust fund. Yes it sounds very good that each child born gets £250 after their birth put into this trust fund and parents can add to it over the years.Your child isn't getting £250 as they rip you off with interest added. And take this off over the years. If you don't add to the fund.. When your child reaches adulthood.. There will be nothing left.As they have reclaimed it all via the interest.It is a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Just stumbled across this thread. Isn't every child in Britain born with a debt of £17,000 (*cough* if the tories are to be believed) due to Gordon Brown's incessant borrowing? If this is the case then the paltry sum of £250 seems like a bit of a slap in the face, no? spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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