More accurate than a census, particularly and out of date one.
Anyway, the actual figures are not really important, only as a relative comparison perhaps.
Something like that.
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/333097/Tories-fail-to-solve-immigration-crisis-that-blights-Britain
http://cornerstone-group.org.uk/2008/02/25/how-many-people-live-in-britain-–-by-greg-hands-mp/
And from 2007:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/city-eye-facts-on-a-plate-our-population-is-at-least-77-million-395428.html
Nobody knows for certain. The official census figure certainly understates it but estimates from food suppliers and other utilities put the total figure much higher than the 62m.
It all depends on the colour settings of the monitor they're using. It's a common problem for anyone using Photoshop. We have no end of problems in our business with people specifying Pantone (printing only) for a paint colour, usually a RAL code. I've even had one customer who specified a RAL code which was a bright orange but then refused the complete sign until it had been repainted in the colour he thought he was getting.
You can't judge colours from a photo on a computer screen.
I used to be involved in TV research, colour studio sampling standards to be precise. As far as TVs go there is no such colour as brown.
Those figures are for the UK, not England. And South-East England is even worse. Then take into account that the figure there is 'only' 62 million whereas according to many estimates it's nearer 80m.
I've checked and your figure of 5% is way too high, and at that time it included Ireland and Scotland which I didn't. Don't you find it a concern that 1% of the world is living in this tiny patch of land, and it's getting larger?
Because it's a bloody big number and we're horrendously overcrowded. When I was young it was 52million.
What's 1900 got to do with it? At that time most of London didn't exist and Middlesex was still a rural county.
Was there a (possibly tongue-in-cheek) reference to managing England one day? I was having a KFC in Cobham services at the time and they had Sky Sports News on a big screen with automatic subtitles.