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As Harry Enfield's informative docuseries showed us, that is a natural position for a Scouser.

I'm not sure about this. Richarlison was definitely a very close decision, but with the angles I wouldn't be 100%. However, I am pretty certain that the ref is giving a later decision, from after the Rodri incident. Just before he calls offside, the ball is played forward to a player on the far...

Are you suggesting that we should also only accept 1.25% of our population each year in new asylum claims?

Not sure it's nobody. Labour have hardly stopped going on about how they're going to reform the planning system specifically so they can build more houses? They've not said 'burn to the ground', but 'ripping out the blockages' is a similar phrasing. Whether it really works, I don't know, and...

It's a little back of the envelope because it's so many factors, but... On the demand side, over the last 40 years, net migration has been approx half of population growth. Natural changes (longer lives/births) have been the other half. The reduction in average household size, is the other big...

I can't see how it can be the "main driver", when over the last few decades it's been something like 10-20% of the issue. It's also not reluctance, although I appreciate why you may think that, because of the toxic debate around immigration. It's simply that I don't believe it's true (and...

You're taking the highest, and most unusual post-Covid couple of years on record for immigration (this year is already predicted to be back to nearer 300k net). You're making the assumption that they need a house each, but none of the hundreds of thousands that left had one? I'm...

I think I'd be wary of looking at 2021 to 2023 as any kind of trend, as Covid caused a huge decline in the 'natural' numbers, and we had two years of net migration post Covid that were well over double even the highest recent years. The overall figures look the same as the ones I've shared. I'd...

That's population change. Up till Covid, you had the following from the early 90s. In the 90s it was more about natural change, then net migration was higher for the 00s, and in the 2010s the balance was pretty much equal. When you add in the huge changes in household size, net migration...

Then you're wrong. Net migration is significant, but it doesn't add up to deomgraphic changes, plus societal changes, plus the reduction in building the right kind of properties and making sure those properties become homes. I've never said migration doesn't have downsides, and I've never...

Why the obsession to make it just about one issue? You're replying to a post that talks about a variety of supply side issues, explains that demographic demand has been about ageing/births as much as migration, and about how smaller household sizes have had a huge impact. As I've said multiple...

I agree with the drop in new builds, and in particular the right kind of new builds. There are other supply side issues that I mentioned, like second homes, airbnbs, investment properties etc. to add to that. I also agree that population increase is one of the main issues - although as I've...

And going back to an earlier post, how can in increase of 5 million single occupant households over 20 years be a minor factor?

Not sure how many times I can say, that during the 90s, these "minor factors" were bigger than net migration.

Apart from net migration, there are two main drivers in the increase in population - more births and less deaths. Life expectancy increased around 6 years between 1990 and 2020. 1999 was the first year in the 90s, where net migration outstripped changes in the existing population. And you're...

According to the govt stats in the House of Commons library, the first year in the 90s that net migration in England & Wales, outstripped other rises was 1999. However, increases due to more births/less deaths, actually rose again quite considerably, and at some points in the 2010s they again...

Did you do any research before saying this? Between 1991 and 1999, net migration was actually slightly less than the growth due to ageing/births. At the moment, and in the near future, net migration will be the main driver of population growth, but it's simplistic to then tie this to housing...

I was addressing a point which talked about immigration as the driver. Population growth is much broader, and the ageing population I spoke of is part of the population growth you're talking about. In fact, up until Covid, you had forty years where, in terms of population, the "natural"...

Not sure why you say it's semantics? I was replying to someone who said the main driver was immigration. I've given you a link to a government document, produced when the Tories were in power, which says that an ageing population and people wanting to live in smaller groups are the main drivers.

Are you sure it's mostly dependent family?