ethnic cleansing is the newsspeak word for genocide isn't it? subtle or not.
Historical perspective.
Rural communities throughout the land were being decimated by the advent of mechanisation, tractors and harvesters meant that ploughmen, stable lads, blacksmiths or farm labourers were no longer required in great numbers.
In other words farming became drastically less labour intensive and the men and women who relied on agriculture had to move to the towns and cities to find work.
The second point is that our grandparents fought for the right to have decent, afordable, hygienic housing instead of slums and rachman landlords.
The villagers of Avebury were moved up the road a little, but no-one died or was injured because of this. The work that keiler and the National Trust offered enabled people to remain within their community, the depopulation of these communities was happening throughout the British Isles, at the same time.
I think the comparison between Keiler and toad of toad hall is a fair one, but subtle genocide ?????