A Startling Glimpse of the Bleedin' Obvious

I am either becoming significantly brighter as I age (which contradicts all the counsel my dear wife provides) or experts and pundits in the media are increasingly expounding the bleedin’ obvious as if it were startling insight.

The other day the latest census figures were released which showed that the combined population of England and Wales has increased by 3.7 million during the last decade.

I then listened to an expert on the radio invited to analyse the results and he pronounced that the increase was due to a combination of three factors; nett migration, people living longer and the birth rate. I considered this expert’s testimony for an instant and mused about other factors which could influence the total population and only came up with abduction (by aliens and slavers). I dissmissed illeagal immigrants as self-evidently they would not ask to be included in a census (Oh!!, "Hoised with his own petard").
So I concluded that this was yet another example of an expert stating the bleedin’ obvious presumably for the enlightenment of the ‘hard of thinking’.