I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.
There are perfectly good independent small nations.
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.