Is Britain Too Crowded?

[Robusto]

Note: This is not the BNP calling...


1. Is Britain too crowded?
2. Is it a regional thing?
3. What can be done?

I'll start.

1. Britain is too bloody crowded - in certain areas.

2. Yes. It is regional. Kent and other parts of the South-East are so rammed with people that you can't buy petrol or shop for Port Salut quickly at times. You get stuck looking at those fucking Argos numbers on a Saturday forever, for example. And so many pensioners get in the way all the time and you have to be polite because you're British. You would never have that habit if your genes were Parisian.

3. I don't know what to do if my roots are here. I could move to France or New Mexico, speak both lingos and drive for hours sometimes without seeing another car in the deep country. Trouble is if I crashed the car there would be no NHS to pay for my stitches and replacement blood.

It pisses me off sometimes, but I do know that I am one of the people crowding the place and not just everyone else. I suppose I could turn to religion and find inner happiness, but to be quite honest I have been thinking about the phrase AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLE a lot, and I've decided mine is great because it comes with a smoke shack where I can slow down over cigars in quiet solitude to my heart's content.

In conclusion, if I can't find a solution, I can always light up and - for an hour or so - drift away.

[Drewmidorn]

Erm.... yep!

[Robusto]

Ta.

[Simon-JG-hr]

That solution seems quite agreeable to me...

[Deano]

*sigh* I need a smoke shack.

[daverave999]

It's not just Britain, it's the World!

There is always the option to live in a more rural area but due to centralisation of just about everything, you end up becoming a second-class citizen.

[Stogiedog]

Bryan totally agree with all your comments. Stick to the organic sensual leather clad settee in the Moulin Rouge or better known to you, me and others as the smokin shack and smoke those dirty little, horny leaves until all thats left is the cigar slut ash............. So looking forward to my next adventure into the shack later Brother.

[TJCoro]

Where's the soap?

Bryan totally agree with all your comments. Stick to the organic sensual leather clad settee in the Moulin Rouge or better known to you, me and others as the smokin shack and smoke those dirty little, horny leaves until all thats left is the cigar slut ash............. So looking forward to my next adventure into the shack later Brother.

Such language coming from such a nice boy . May have to change your sweet little smiley for something like...

[Robusto]

The seat is forever warm for you, my brother lol.

Paul - It was Tesco in Dover that got my mind working. I had to go and do the monthly shop this afternoon and left after waiting for petrol for twenty minutes, and then not being able to manoeuvre the trolley through so many special people in the store.

I gave up. I was pissed off and came home!

I don't see real life at all during the week when at work.
Only another six weeks of crowded daytimes to go...

[Stogiedog]

TJ thanks mate trying to up my rep sick off being Mister nice guy. The Dawgs begining to growl.........

[Robusto]

Such language coming from such a nice boy . May have to change your sweet little smiley for something like...

Filth is the best, TJ.

[Stogiedog]

Currently commuting to work for 1hr 20mins and I can tell you Bryan that the traffic is staggering even at 0630. The problem is not the amount of roads we have but the amount of people on them. We can build as many new roads, bye passes, motorways etc, the plain and simple truth is too many people driving too many cars and HGVs.

We should take 80% of the UK haulage buisness off the roads. Investing in the railways building sidings into a central point where local vehicles pick up and deliver (Non HGVs). We should re-invest in the spiders web of network canal systems in the UK deliver by barge and collect by small LG vehicles for local distribution.

We should cut the import of so many european goods to the UK that would reduce the amount of HGVs considerably.

The jobs that get lost due to changes in the removal of the vehicle borne fleets can be remployed on the railways and canals, in essence we would increase jobs in those areas and all the support elements to those industries.

There should be dedicated feeder roads for the remainder of the HGVs like bus lanes. HGVs should stick to motorways and not be allowed into city centres, they too drop all there goods at a central distribution centre where local small vans collect.

Rant over.

[Kdot]

Definately a regional thing, London and surrounding areas are so crowded that they are like battery hen farms. And I think it has an effect on the people too, everything gets so impersonal because of how busy it gets down there, a bit like New York.

Scotland has a falling population, It seems we're not so busy in the sack, so we need imigration to sustain the population and generate income for the government form taxes etc.

My solution would be to get the hottest women from London and bring them all to Scotland, glasgow to be exact, thus reducing the overcrowding in London and increase the population up here. And to help out I'll personally take three of them

[Robusto]

There was a distinct lack of hot women in Tesco Dover today.
I was looking. Very hard.

[TJ:01]

I'm trying not to get on my soap box here guys!! But... I always ask myself the question if the infrastructure of London and surrounding areas can't cope then why do they insist on building more and more houses. Where I am in Colchester they keep trying to build another 10,000 homes on the fields opposite to where we are. The last time they tried they said they didn't have the water infrastructure to give all the homes water... but 10,000 - along the roads we have A120/A12 it's just like get with the programme and give up! If there ain't a house to move to, then you have to move somewhere where there is one!

OK... I'll put my soapbox away now.... seriously... I'll padlock the cupboard!