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Get me out of here: London is the ‘childbirth capital of Europe’

I see that London is now the ‘childbirth capital of Europe’, with the highest birth-rate on the entire continent. London, and the UK generally, previously enjoyed very low birth-rates, among the lowest in Western Europe (together with the other law-abiding, sexually restrained, protestant people of the North West).

The cause of this change is, of course, mass immigration. And, one would expect, non-European immigration. This change had not been anticipated by the people who predict what our population is going to be 20, 30 years down the line. It now looks like life in Britain – the 2037 figure of just below 75 million, as predicted by the Office for National Statistics – will be an underestimate.

Already I can hear the metro liberal left saying what a great thing this is, all that vibrant new life and diversity! Me, I think it’s time to get the hell out.

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