I am starting to believe aurvandil's thesis that the white paper was to prep the population for an eventual 7-8 million target, but they grossly underestimated the resentment and ground frustration due to the closed nature of their sampling technique. There is nothing in the paper that is remotely vote winning.
The next few years will be economically rough and they also want to ensure foreign enterprise that the momentum will continue.
I totally agree... I think when LHL said the 6.9 mill is not a target, it's political double talk for - we will have at least 6.9mil, or possibly more; as far as infrastructure is concerned, we are prepared to cater for 6.9mil.
That is short is how we are going to get scr3wed.