Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "Why Japan has turned to the UK for better defence | Sitrep podcast" video.

@wolfyys Japan as the aging population problem though and Britain has it too. They will end up needing immigration and so does the UK.
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@wolfyys it's still heavily weighted towards old people and they at the same time want to have their pensions paid but not to import the people who can generate the money to pay them.
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@BigBoomOfDoom2 not possible - everything is skewed against the young and now that most voters are older they are doing things to keep it that way - including Brexit, property prices etc. Once the bulge of old people departs it might become possible but Britain will be a midget by then. Also if you made everyone have another kid tomorrow you'd need 21/22 years before they were educated - plenty of time to get very poor as a country.
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@BigBoomOfDoom2 too bad. The mistakes were made long ago. UK culture is not so fabulous that it cannot accept change and people can learn some of it but dying out completely is another option...
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@BigBoomOfDoom2 the smaller the UK gets the more overwhelmed it's culture will be anyhow. Better to try to teach your values to more people than disappear.
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@BigBoomOfDoom2 I think you feel financially ok so you're happy to throw everyone else in the UK under a bus economically because you're afraid of other cultures. It's a fearful attitude. Brexiters could have got easily integrated Europeans but have effectively chosen to pull in people from more different and difficult countries.
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@BigBoomOfDoom2 because there is no short term fix except immigration and if you don't get on with it then there will be permanent damage. The other reason is that the current situation suits people with the most voting power. Anyhow the human race is much of a muchness I find as all these debates happen everywhere, with everyone fearing change.
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