Abstract
In the recent British elections only 3 subjects aroused audience response: strikes inflation and population. Although it is popular to agree that Britain is overcrowded suggestions to limit population by direct action provoke violent objections from within each party. Both Labour and Conservative party members are to be found on both sides of the population policy fence. Various arguments are then given in detail. There really is little the government can do about population. It can arrange a severe slump perhaps the best limitation on population yet devised. It could allow more old people to die off offer free lottery tickets to the sterilized or withdraw tax advantages to large families. Most of these turn out to be policies for or against the poor. Sometimes the demands for a population policy express a genuine compassion. They also express defeatism concealed racialism envy and mean-mindedness. Sadly this seems to fit the mood of Britain.
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