Well, that's half our allocation and the full allocation for the UK as they only have 144 to 146.
THe ITU or whoever it is that is thinking about this stupidity isn't closely considering the fact that there are a boatload or radios out there that will still get used on those bands.
Doing this would be about like re purposing 27Mhz into something other than CB radio. And is this a global change or just in the UK? I doubt that the ARRL FCC would allow this stateside.