This is the inevitable effect of decades of declining birth rates. We can expect to see the same thing up and down the country in the coming years.
DrIvoPingasnik on
People priced out of housing and renting market started moving out.
Aspect-Unusual on
The school my daughter goes to has three empty classes, Reception, Year 1 and year 2 are running on 3 classes each where they have space for 4 per year.
Each class that is running are under capacity
HotelPuzzleheaded654 on
Even the immigration Ponzi scheme is a time bomb because a lot of those immigrants end up with the same issues as the native population, primarily stagnant wages.
If people can’t afford to have kids they won’t.
Eventually somethings got to give where working class people get paid something that allows them to buy houses and start families otherwise the population collapses along with GDP.
Inflating GDP by importing record numbers isn’t sustainable.
iMatthew1990 on
Imagine pricing everybody out of being able to live and then being shocked that people don’t bring other life into the world.
Consistent-Towel5763 on
With the increase in AI ability we are going to see significant automation coming in. Declining birth-rates is a good thing and we should look to reduce our population so there is less impact on the globe and we can increase the quality of life. We need specialisation and we should be investing heavily in automation and building/designing automation to export to other countries.
AI automation while be replacing a lot of low skilled jobs.
Let’s look at the Care sector cos that’s where we get told a lot of the reason for this import is:
* Auto-baristas and Auto-chefs are well underway.
* Military tech to carry soldiers off battlefields can be used in care to carry pensioners around and you could no doubt create some sort of car wash to wash the pensioners as well.
* Remote tech for vitals monitoring is already available and cheap look at smart watches that can monitor for arrhythmia.
* AI companionship is already a thing in Japan
* Tagging and tracking via Cameras or bands is already used in places such as Disney.
* Between vital monitoring and cameras AI would be able to identify residents in distress.
* It might mean centralising care into larger homes with better facilities.
All of the problems are solvable just needs some time investment and the cost of the tech coming down (which it will as all tech does).
Education would be one of the last things to get changed but really it should be changed earlier but there are big barriers to that change the first being teachers don’t have a fucking clue about technology. Most teachers have spent their entire careers teaching out of books and not working in the real world of tech.
but we wont we will just import more low wage workers and screw over our future.
not_who_you_think_99 on
I don’t quite follow how student numbers fall in primary schools but go up in secondary ones?
Are people going private for primary then state for secondary?
No_Plate_3164 on
Who would have thought – Unaffordable family homes have driven young people out of London or opting not have kids.
Please choose one or more of the following to blame:
– Immigrants taking homes (NET 600k in 2024)
– NIMBYs blocking new homes
– Thatchers right to “buy”; >50% of council houses are now private rentals
– Pensioners not downsizing and/or moving out of London
– No wage growth since 2008 (Stagnant GDP per capita)
– Brexit
– The Removal of Mortgage Interest tax relief (Gordon Brown)
– Record tax burden since WW2
– Looming environmental collapse
– Record bad health across the UK
Reality: Higher classroom sizes – Split year group classrooms – Specialist provision for SEMH pupils shut down – Teachers crying (more than usual), The lucky teachers are offered redundancy packages and retire.
MarvZealous on
I mean this is good right? We’ve been complaining of crammed classrooms, lack of teachers for ages now.
Shot-Performance-494 on
Both parents having to work full time to sustain a decent quality of life in this country is surely the largest factor in this declining birth rate
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This is the inevitable effect of decades of declining birth rates. We can expect to see the same thing up and down the country in the coming years.
People priced out of housing and renting market started moving out.
The school my daughter goes to has three empty classes, Reception, Year 1 and year 2 are running on 3 classes each where they have space for 4 per year.
Each class that is running are under capacity
Even the immigration Ponzi scheme is a time bomb because a lot of those immigrants end up with the same issues as the native population, primarily stagnant wages.
If people can’t afford to have kids they won’t.
Eventually somethings got to give where working class people get paid something that allows them to buy houses and start families otherwise the population collapses along with GDP.
Inflating GDP by importing record numbers isn’t sustainable.
Imagine pricing everybody out of being able to live and then being shocked that people don’t bring other life into the world.
With the increase in AI ability we are going to see significant automation coming in. Declining birth-rates is a good thing and we should look to reduce our population so there is less impact on the globe and we can increase the quality of life. We need specialisation and we should be investing heavily in automation and building/designing automation to export to other countries.
AI automation while be replacing a lot of low skilled jobs.
Let’s look at the Care sector cos that’s where we get told a lot of the reason for this import is:
* Auto-baristas and Auto-chefs are well underway.
* Military tech to carry soldiers off battlefields can be used in care to carry pensioners around and you could no doubt create some sort of car wash to wash the pensioners as well.
* Remote tech for vitals monitoring is already available and cheap look at smart watches that can monitor for arrhythmia.
* AI companionship is already a thing in Japan
* Tagging and tracking via Cameras or bands is already used in places such as Disney.
* Between vital monitoring and cameras AI would be able to identify residents in distress.
* It might mean centralising care into larger homes with better facilities.
All of the problems are solvable just needs some time investment and the cost of the tech coming down (which it will as all tech does).
Education would be one of the last things to get changed but really it should be changed earlier but there are big barriers to that change the first being teachers don’t have a fucking clue about technology. Most teachers have spent their entire careers teaching out of books and not working in the real world of tech.
but we wont we will just import more low wage workers and screw over our future.
I don’t quite follow how student numbers fall in primary schools but go up in secondary ones?
Are people going private for primary then state for secondary?
Who would have thought – Unaffordable family homes have driven young people out of London or opting not have kids.
Please choose one or more of the following to blame:
– Immigrants taking homes (NET 600k in 2024)
– NIMBYs blocking new homes
– Thatchers right to “buy”; >50% of council houses are now private rentals
– Pensioners not downsizing and/or moving out of London
– No wage growth since 2008 (Stagnant GDP per capita)
– Brexit
– The Removal of Mortgage Interest tax relief (Gordon Brown)
– Record tax burden since WW2
– Looming environmental collapse
– Record bad health across the UK
Expectation: Lower classroom sizes – Happy teachers
Reality: Higher classroom sizes – Split year group classrooms – Specialist provision for SEMH pupils shut down – Teachers crying (more than usual), The lucky teachers are offered redundancy packages and retire.
I mean this is good right? We’ve been complaining of crammed classrooms, lack of teachers for ages now.
Both parents having to work full time to sustain a decent quality of life in this country is surely the largest factor in this declining birth rate