Coming a little over a week after David Cameron delivered a speech to the CBI in which he declared his intent to wage ‘war on red tape’,
Planning Minister Nick Boles has fleshed out in a Newsnight interview what this will mean in practical
terms for vast swathes of English countryside: farewell! For Boles has declared
that he would like to see the percentage of land built upon in England increase from 9% to 12%, some 1,500 square miles lost beneath concrete and tarmac. This,
quite plainly, is the ineluctable consequence of our de facto open borders
policy, and illustrates in the most stark terms why mass immigration is
intensely damaging, not only to the fabric and character of our landscape, but
to our flora and fauna.
A ‘war on red tape’ may well be a phrase that plays well to
the ears of members of the general public who find complex aspects of Whitehall
regulations a bane in many respects, but bundled up within Cameron’s
declaration were clear and worrying implications for our countryside. However,
a week ago the press largely ignored this aspect of his speech, with for
example, the stridently self-declared advocate of environmental issues, The
Guardian, becoming irate not about this threat to our countryside, but choosing
to focus instead upon Cameron’s pledge to axe ‘equality impact assessments’.
For The Guardian, it would matter not one whit if the entirety of England were
to be concreted over and transformed into a global megacity, providing that it
was of course carbon neutral, thereby being in its opinion genuinely ‘Green’.
What then, in practical terms, can be done to prevent this
‘development’ which in reality would better be described as the destruction of
our national natural environment? Will the Campaign to Protect Rural England step in
to champion opposition? What of the Woodland Trust? As can be seen from the
picture below, it does seem a touch odd that Nick Boles (centre) should choose
to have himself pictured with members of the Woodland Trust, when quite clearly
he would happily see such woodland uprooted and flattened by the bulldozer, to
make way for homes needed because of a population boom that has been almost exclusively
fuelled by mass immigration and the higher birth-rates of the immigrant and
immigrant-descended population.
The answer to the housing crisis lies not in covering
another 1,500 square miles of English countryside with ‘development’, but
rather with a combination of strict controls on immigration, and the redevelopment
of genuinely brownfield sites in urban areas. Mass immigration is the root
cause of this problem, and ending mass immigration will be its only solution. Migration Watch has drawn public attention to this issue for many years, and will hopefully be able to generate greater public awareness of this problem, as well as support for its position, in light of Boles's statement.
Nick Boles (centre) with members of the Woodland Trust
