When is realisation and common sense finally going to kick in? 

Continually trying to boost the economy and now trying to control inflation with successive interest rate rises is completely the wrong way to go. 

Economic growth is so detrimental and damaging to society. It's there in front of us. History proves it time and time again. 

It leads to increased inequality, causes social disruption, huge increases in pollution, and depletion of the world's natural resources to name but a few. 

Economic growth also requires foreign investment which is always fraught with corruption and is usually a pre-requisite to total unwarranted foreign aid to these wretched countries almost as a legalised bribe. 

There are three billion too many people on this planet and not only that, they are all in the wrong places. If we don't do something about it now, nature will. 

This country is crying out for two new political parties with the guts to put forward a really radical manifesto that firstly instigates curbing continual population rises. We certainly do not need more houses! If housing supply outstripped demand (naturally) then they would depreciate over time the same as other commodities, making them so much more affordable to millions of hardworking people. 

There is not a lack of housing here, but an over populated island with several million undeserving freeloaders who should not be here. A strong political party that deals with population (especially immigration) will solve the endless list of all the other problems by default - being able to see a doctor, finding employment, reduction in crime, NHS waiting list reduction, reduced prison population, etc. The list is endless. 

Population depletion is the and only answer to sustainability not just here but across the world.

John Airey,
Mortimer Close, 
Kings Worthy, 
Winchester 

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