JUST where will we all live? Let’s try and get the story right.

Fact: every baby boom ends 65 years later in an ageing population boom.

The current boom in the elderly population in the UK was created by governmental interference in the 60s tying to replace the young population lost fighting WWII and was achieved by lavish handouts to mothers to conceive additional children.

This method created what today is known as the baby boom wherein in one decade in the 60s the population increased by over three million births, followed by only 1.6 million in the next two decades.

How successive governments thought that 0.8 million in a 70s or 80s decade were going to support over three million by 2020 was never explained.

I suspect this is where our boom in immigration comes in and if clever governments since the 90s have correctly balanced the population books, which graphs suggest they have, there should be no problem with an ageing population in 2020.

Except for financial reasons, the money which should now be readily available for their support was spent elsewhere.

This brings us now to the latest baby boom, greater than the 60s, where only last year 725,000 new babies were born which could equate to seven million babies by 2025 - more than enough to create a perfect storm of retiring baby boomers for our grandchildren to worry about.

As to where they will all live? Successive governments are still creating the problem. They must sort it out.

DOUGLAS MILLS

Fraser Road, Poole

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