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Listed below are comments made by bystander2 between Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 and Monday, 8th September 2008.

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Map of the week: Crowded Britain? 5:39pm on 08 Sep 2008 Hardly any of the countries which you point out are more densely populated than ours are comparable (the Holy See for heaven's sake!) and of those that are - such as the Netherlands - immigration is also a very contentious topic, or overpopulation a serious problem (eg India). Obviously the UK could accommodate more people - you could simply pave the entire island over and have done with it but that's hardly the point. As you say the question is would it change things for better or for worse. I would have thought the answer to that is very obviously "worse". Witness the massive number of people now choosing to emigrate.
Legalise Drugs! From maverick to mainstream 4:26pm on 04 Sep 2008 Frankly I'm surprised there is still anyone who has ever stopped to think about it properly that DOESN'T think legalisation is the way forward. You only have to look at the history of drug prohibition to realise it was never a rational response to drug use in the first place (and it is incidentally rubbish to say that legal drugs would be a "step into the unknown" - most drugs were legal everywhere until the 20th century) . But while I am in favour of legalisation I do worry about what all those people making so much money from the drug trade at the moment would turn their hands to if drugs were legalised. It's too much to hope for that they would simply go out and get normal jobs. Would we see a massive rise in more traditional types of crime like extortion? The consequences of the sudden redundancy of millions of drug dealers might need some planning for...
Shocking crime figures 4:39pm on 23 Jul 2008 Maybe, maybe not - you seem to have taken the figures at face value, very trusting of you bearing in mind how previous figures have been fiddled.

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