Brexit

[Muddy Retriever]

And again, taking Scotland as a whole is misleading. As most live in the compact area of the central belt. Those empty bits are empty for a reason. Any major immigration will almost certainly be based in a small area. There’s only so many jobs available in Lochinver.

It's a fair point.

This is quite an interesting article.

https://theconversation.com/think-yo...s-europe-90345

It makes the distinction between arithmetic density and "lived/built up" density. Spain on the face of it is quite sparsely populated but only 13% of Spain is actually lived in. So where people do congregate they are quite tightly packed.

Whatever measure you use, if you look at the table at the bottom England is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe.