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astrologica #150:

One thing that puzzles me...the population of the UK is well over 66 million. Can someone explain why we have to import people to be doctors, nurses, carers, fruit and veg pickers, etc. We have enough population to find suitable people.And we hear it constantly in the news.."but we NEED these people to run the NHS etc etc." We don't need them... we need to train our own people. Truth is.. the government likes immigration, in spite of so called targets to reduce it.

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Agreed. The wealth per head of a country doesn't depend on the size of its population. Otherwise the countries with the largest populations would automatically be the wealthiest per head:

cia.gov - world-factbook/wealth/rankorder