Should we cap the number of children we have in the uk?

Question

Seeing as we cant stop all the immigrants coming to "treasure island" maybe we should cut down the number of babies we have?? Views please!

Answer 1

Have we enough caps to go round?

Answer 2

i don't think they would wear them.

Answer 3

Good idea but it would not work.

Answer 4

1. Breeding sows' benefits stopped. (Let them graze.) 2. People to take a written test, as to....... 'parenthood-capabilities suitability.' 3. No more Council flats for teenage........ 'mothers' (dear God!) 4. Mass immigration suspended, pending a Plebiscite, upon this 'poison chalice' issue. 5. A maximum of 2 'sprogs' per household./ By the way: This is not a "rant" or "racism." Simply; stark reality. Let History judge.

Answer 5

or alternatively- let's put down everyone who reaches 70- or can't work, or is disabled, or thick, or just plain ugly.... get a grip man!

Answer 6

From what i read in yahoo answers Britons are becoming more and more like the n***s.

Remember Mengele?, google him ,he'll be your next hero.

Answer 7

Why don't all the people suggesting forced sterlisation or murder get a grip, I suppose that wouldn't include them or their children would it?

Use the same method currently being used in Russia, Italy and Eastern Europe to boost birth rates, mainly financial awards to families who don't have more than 2 children (2.1 is the stable population rate, I believe the UK's is at 1.7-1.8) or who choose to have vasectomies after one or two children.

But I think it's the parent's decision when to stop, nobody elses. No coercive one child policies just incentives.

Answer 8

well if i truly honestly answer you properly i will get kicked off here permanently!!!

Answer 9

When you have irresponsible people popping out kids one after another sterilisation would be good

Most people with brains limit there family to what they can afford

The rest live of benefits

Answer 10

dont cap the number of babies but cap the number that are eligible for child benifit,free school places,etc,that should do the trick

Answer 11

CUT DOWN ON THEM HAVING KIDS YOU MEAN FECKING FREE 4 ALLS

Answer 12

People should be educated about population growth and its negative affects on us.

Answer 13

Yes, we should.  In fact we already had a lowering birth rate, and the Government encouraged immigrants to come here because without them there was a problem.  You see we rely on an economic model of constant growth.  Capital is not the accumulated wealth of money already earned, it is speculative, money being lent on the promise of future profit.  Without growth, the system doesn't work.  To get growth, you need a growing population, hence immigration.  More people to work, pay tax, make things for people to buy, to use goods and services and keep the economy growing.  Without immigrants, the Treasury would have a 6bn hole in the budget, because these people fill jobs, pay tax and use the goods and services that also have to be paid for.  If there are less people, those that remain have to pay more tax to fund public services.

All this will soon have to change.  It is now clear that there is no more oil to be found in the world.  There have been millions spent trying to find the stuff, but that's it, there is no more.  What we have now is all that is left.  This is causing a problem with our economic model - there are limits to growth.

We still have loads of the stuff left, but as anybody with the slightest understanding of economics knows, once something becomes rarer, the price goes up.  And up.  And so it is now, with the oil price rising ever higher and no prospect of it ever coming down.  So what, you think.  The price of petrol will just mean more people will have to get used to public transport and walking.  No big deal.

And what about alternatives?  Surely 'they' have plans to wean us off the fossil fuel teat and move to something else? How about biofuel?  Well, you take the entire grain crop harvest of the world, turn it into biofuel, and it wouldn't cover 20% of the transport fuel we use now.  And then what would we eat?  What about Nuclear?  Can't put nuclear into a petrol tank.  Wind Power?  Solar panels?  If we wanted to replace oil with those, we should have started fitting them into the system 50 years ago.  Well if I give up my car, I'll be alright, I'll just walk to the shops to buy food.

Wrong.  You eat fossil fuel.  For every calorie of food you eat, 10 calories of fossil fuel was burned to grow it, transport it and get it to your plate.  The price of the food you buy is already rising to reflect this.  It will only climb ever higher.  The cost of grains is rising, animals are fed on grains, and so that increase effects the price of everything in your fridge and freezer that ever came from an animal.  You eat corn in the form of milk, butter, eggs, ice cream, yoghurt, chicken, bacon, sausages, and beef.

Before we started using oil-based fertilsers and pesticides, the world population was around 2 billion.  Using oil to grow food, that population has grown to around 6.5billion.  Without oil, that level of population is unsustainable.

Yes that means what you think it means.

The Optimum Population Trust has already calculated that the UK can sustain a population of around 39 million if we wanted, or had to be, self-suffcient.  I think that we should try to bring down the birth rate to acheive a steady, controlled population decrease to get to these levels, or face the consequences of a starving population if we don't.

Answer 14

Why cap the numbers of children for British people?  All immigrants should agree to be sterilised before they are given permission to live in the UK.

Answer 15

nah, just throw the foreigners out and i think people should be given intelligence tests and financial tests to procreate, or else their offspring should be shipped abroad to work in child labour camps.... just kidding, kind of.

Answer 16

Why not Ban them along with everything else.

Answer 17

we need to lynch teenage preggers

Answer 18

Why should we stop, it's our country. they should stop the immigrants instead.

Answer 19

Yes, 'cause we are rubbish at bringing them up. What happened to respect - seems like an acient myth now!

Answer 20

That's a very difficult thing to police.  What would you do.  Abort unlicensed babies?  Or sterilise people once they'd reached the limit?

We should encourage our citizens not to have more kids than they can support - and the economy can support - but an actual cap is unworkable...

Answer 21

why should the birtish citizens be punished to have a set amount of babys just because imigrants come to this country and have kids to s***k more of our money from benifits??