The Office for National Statistics released provisional figures for last year showing the fertility rate sank to 1.64 children per woman, compared with a peak of 2.93 in 1964.
The latest figures were well below the average family size of 2.1 children per woman needed for the population to replace itself in the long term without inward migration.
Inward immigration is a feature of imperialism.
In terms of reproducing the whole society economically it is an absolute necessity not just in Britain but in western European generally, whatever the populist prejudices of people like Fortujn, Stoiber, or Le Pen.
Chris Burford
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