Centuries-Old Link Between Tories and Countryside Broken by Nigel Farage as Farmers Increasingly Back Reform
Farmers, the very constituency from which the Conservatives’ self-image and legitimacy flows has abandoned the party, poll finds.
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War on the Countryside: British Public Thinks Govt ‘Unfairly’ Prioritises Urban Over Rural
Considerable majority of Britons believe Labour “unfairly neglects those living in the countryside” and prioritises urban issues, says poll.
‘Authoritarian Control Freaks’: UK’s Left-Wing Govt Goes to War With the Countryside With Hunting, Shotgun Crackdowns
Westminster intensifying attacks on rural life, with plans to further restrict shotguns and to eliminate the vestiges of rural sport.
Academics Announce BLM-Inspired Study of ‘Rural Racism’ in British Countryside
Academics have been tasked by a charity to study “rural racism” in the British countryside in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Narration by White Men Could Stop Minorities from Watching Nature Docs: Govt-Funded Study
Ethnic minorities could be put off watching nature documentaries if they are narrated by white men, a report funded by the supposedly conservative-led British government has claimed.
Digging Up Our Green and Pleasant Land: Being Political Wing of Building Industry May Cost Tories Dearly
The Conservatives had been defying conventional logic, winning by-elections while in government — a rare achievement — but now they have been soundly defeated in a safe seat by a minor party, analysis suggests, on the small matter of the countryside being swallowed whole by development. Will the Tories’ big-money donors in the construction industry come to haunt them?
England Will Need to Build Over 100K Houses Per Year to Keep Up with Mass Migration
Over 100,000 homes will need to be built in England every year as a result of mass migration, analysis from the Migration Watch UK think tank has found.
BBC Countryfile Presenter: ‘The Countryside Is Racist’
BBC Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison has insisted that “the countryside is racist” after the BBC courted controversy by reporting that many minorities see it as a “white environment”.
Britain Concretes over Almost 835,000 Acres as Mass Migration Drives Housing Demand
Almost 835,000 acres have been concreted over in Britain, new data shows, while the so-called Conservative Party wants to build over even more green belt land to make way for new housing.
UK Immigration Boom: Plan to Build a Million Houses Could Destroy 67,000 Acres of Countryside
Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is proposing to build a million homes between Oxford and Cambridge, with campaigners claiming the plan would lead to the destruction of 67,000 acres of greenfield countryside.
Farmers: Brexit an Opportunity to Scrap Damaging EU Rules, Reinvigorate British Countryside
Leave-supporting farmers in historic Exmoor have set out proposals which will allow them to thrive and reinvigorate the natural environment after Brexit.
Delingpole: Elon Musk Threatens UK Wildlife with Giant Solar Battery
Elon Musk is threatening to despoil the English countryside with another of his giant solar battery gimmicks. It will be the ‘biggest evah’, of course.
