Our Sacred Land

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moss M
moss Sep 5, 2011 08:12:51
Replying to The Sea Cat

The Sea Cat wrote:
The battle to save our forests never went away as we know, and now the gauntlet is really down. Our Sacred inheritance. Our land. Our Right.

Let's all get out their as much as we can, individually and on mass.
Even when they force this through, let us all keep laying claim to our ancient living Cultural heritage.

New Houses and Communities for the relentless and recklessly out of control expanding and endlessly consuming population. Yippee. Well fuck 'em. They can build over my bones, and I'll have a middle finger one thrust defiantly aloft up through the Tarmac in the Supermarket Car Park. A place of brief respite for a passing Sparrow, at least.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-to-press-ahead-with-planning-reforms-2349548.html

It's scary. How many more battles are to be fought is the question to be asked. We do need more reasonably priced housing for more people though, and of course social housing for many others. They try it on the conservatives every time they are in power and the developer's unscrupulous con tricks are part of the rationale.

There were sparrows in our local supermarket this morning, flying around happily;)

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/story-13263865-detail/story.html

G Gwass
Gwass Sep 5, 2011 14:51:52
Replying to moss

It seems to me people are missing the major point here which is supply and demand.

The biggest threat to our countryside is the unprecedented levels of demand. You can blame the developers and the tories but without the demand there isn't an issue.

No one has mentioned the fact that a large proportion of this demand is extra housing for the hundreds of thousand s of extra people arriving here year on year. Sort out the immigration problem and you remove a large proportion of demand.

It's not rocket science, if hundreds of thousands of people are arriving every year extra homes are needed. Last year the population swelled by something like 300,000, that's the equivalent of the population of a city the size of Stoke on Trent from immigration alone.

Why this elephant in the room is ignored is beyond me, probably because of political correctness and people are afraid of raising perfectly reasonable concerns because they will be labelled a racist by far left idiots.

Solve the immigration problem & you remove the most substantial threat to our 'sacred land'. It's what the vast majority of the population want anyway & this is supposed to be a democracy.