I CAN only welcome Mark Harper's comments on the large family benefit cuts. He is wrong on the average wage though.

He must have confused us with Cheltenham as we are about £14,000.

This average can only go down.

We have water shortages. People in the Forest are protesting against new development. The cost of food, heating, petrol etc are going up.

Some are fighting their own 'Why should they get a pension when I don't?' instead of standing together. 'You should keep your pension and I should get one too.'

There is only one major underlying cause of all of the above. We have mined or sucked out nearly all of the UK's resources. That only leaves our labour which the world has so much of that we are competing with people who will work for no sick or holiday pay or pensions.

Most of our food is grown overseas. We have to buy it in. With very little to sell back how do we ever get the debt down?

Again, the underlying cause is the same. We are too many.

In this country it is as much to do with reproduction as it is immigration. For seven years I sponsored a child in India. I now give that money to 'population' matters.

Giving enough to barely sustain people and aiding excessive reproduction was not helping. It is reception level maths that 10 people sharing a pie will get more than 100 sharing it. The well known charity does not even mention contraception in the UK strategy?

It makes me so angry when I see families with three or four children. They say things like "my husband can afford it." Well the earth and the rest of us can't!

We need to at least halve our numbers. Until then bye bye work, living wages, pensions and hello Forest housing estates, crowded classrooms, stand pipes, slums, unemployment and expensive heating, food and petrol.

There is no other outcome if we continue to add one and a half million people to our world's population every single week. If we don't act, that's a very small piece of pie.

– C. Davies.