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“Sadiq Khan is announcing plans to build on parts of London’s green belt, in a dramatic shift in housing policy aimed at tackling “the most profound housing crisis in the capital’s history”.
In a major speech on Friday, the mayor of London is expected to say the scale of the challenge, which could need about 1m new homes built in the next decade, requires a break from longstanding taboos.
It marks the first time city hall will support the strategic release of low-quality or inaccessible green belt land near transport links in order to provide hundreds of thousands of new affordable homes.”
[Guardian]
Very sad. Apart from that, when they talk about “low-quality or inaccessible land“, what “low-quality” means in this context is simply land on the edge of built-up areas, which may not always be very scenic (but could be, with political will to improve it). “Inaccessible land” is still better than the same land being built on, and its very inaccessibility provides a haven and sanctuary for animals, birds, insects etc.
This is what happens when a country is invaded by a million migrant-invaders per year (legal or illegal)— pressure on land, transport, public services etc increases, housing becomes unaffordable, and life becomes stressed and unpleasant. Look around. The evidence is all around you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan
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“European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming.
Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK.
More than 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils are degraded due to intensive agriculture, with similar damage to about 40% of British soils, a report has found.”
[Guardian]
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Disgusting pair. I hope that the sentencing judge passes a suitably condign sentence. I hope that I do not read “Sycamore Gap vandals escape prison“. This was a horrible and destructive crime, an act of evil; there was also huge economic damage to the surrounding region (I have seen figures estimating damage of up to £1M).
Just a tree? So tie them to a tree for a few weeks, or months (in winter).
I don’t care whether migrant-invaders are legal or illegal, or whether or not they break UK laws while battening upon us. I just want them all gone.
Yet another opinion poll placing Reform UK in government, potentially. According to Electoral Calculus, a Commons with 314 Reform UK MPs, 168 Labour MPs, 63 LibDems, 39 Cons, 36 SNP (etc). Reform 12 short of an absolute majority, but on the cusp of a working one.
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html
[“Let’s put emotions aside for a moment. The United States .. like any sovereign nation .. has every right to reclaim its independence, pursue its national interest, and break free from parasitic entanglements that have long drained its dignity and resources. What we are witnessing today may be the first real attempt in decades by parts of the American establishment to free themselves from the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby. But here’s the irony: the very idea that America might make decisions based on its own interests has sent Israeli officials into a frenzy. Why? Because for decades, they’ve treated the U.S. not as an ally, but as a tool .. a weaponized servant to carry out their ambitions, silence their critics, and whitewash their crimes. And now, as the leash begins to loosen, their panic grows louder. Let’s be clear: This isn’t a battle between good and evil. It’s a clash between Racial superiority and religious superiority One seeking global domination through lies, manipulation, and media .. driven illusions , Blackmailing , assassination The other aiming to reassert global control through , brute force, and economic imperialism We now stand at a crossroads for America: Either the United States, through Trump, succeeds in imposing a model of sovereign imperialism based on American supremacy… Or Israel unleashes its old playbook .. media manipulation, financial pressure, political chaos .. to manufacture another storm, just as it did when JFK tried to challenge their influence and paid for it with his life.“]
It’s a mad mad mad mad world…
Americans call such behaviour a “chimp-out”, I believe.
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Interesting. Plaid is of course not truly “national” or “nationalist”, but more akin to the SNP in Scotland. Its basic premise, that Wales should be an independent state, is of course ludicrous, especially but not solely from the economic point of view.
Having said that, I can see why Welsh voters in Wales are going for Plaid (the apparent tautology is in fact not so, because a great number of voters in Wales are not Welsh, being either non-European —non-white— or English, mostly the latter; there are a few other small groups as well).
I think that Plaid is making hay because the main System parties, Lab and Con, are perceived as both hopeless and not “local” (to Wales). That was not always so (in relation to Labour) but I think it probably is so now.
As for Reform’s upsurge in Wales, it follows the rise in support for Reform in England and even in Scotland.
In Scotland, Reform is rising up, but another consequence of the drastic fall in support for both Con and Lab is that the SNP may survive, however unmeritedly, and may be able to increase its Westminster representation from its present 9 MPs (out of 57 Scottish seats) to something like 30; not quite the 56 out of 59 it had in 2015, nor even the 48 out of 59 it had in 2019, but still respectable, and a plurality of the 57 Scottish seats that now exist.
Put another way, people across the UK are binning Con and Lab, and I do not see that changing.
The YouGov poll is about the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) elections, not Westminster voting intentions, but must have relevance to the next general election.
“Diversity”…
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/25090957.wapping-conmans-8-5-million-scam-funded-19-supercars/
More “diversity”…
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/25149347.notting-hill-carnival-zombie-knife-attack-teen-convicted/
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One of the best polling results yet for Reform.
Running that through Electoral Calculus (notionally putting LibDems at 15% and Greens at 10%): Reform 375 MPs; Labour 121; LibDems 62; SNP 38; Cons 25. A Reform government with a very large majority of 49 (working majority of about 59).
I keep seeing Labourite and Con Twitter-twits’ tweets saying “still 4 years to go“, as if the main System parties will somehow regain public trust before 2029. Are they serious?!
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Ian Robert Millard 
Today marks 80 years since the Liberation of the Channel Islands from five years of German occupation.
A fascinating subject, there are many books on the subject. It was a harsh five years for Islanders. The British Government decided to abandon the Islands but sent a ship to collect some evacuees.
Because the Channel Islands are not part of the UK, the men were not obligated to join up, but 10,000 did sign up to fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_civilians_from_the_Channel_Islands_in_1940
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I am sure the poor inhabitants suffered terribly at the hands of “the cruel Huns”. 😂😂😂 Give me a break!
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The Germans did not treat them particularly well. God knows what would have happened if they had resisted their occupation more than most people did. Little resistance happened because it was not an easy thing to do as the islands are very small.
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What a glib comment. Yes they did suffer a lot, maybe you should do some research before commenting.
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Channel Island residents nearely starved to death under German occupation. The end of the war came just in time for them. It certainly was not all sweetness and light.
More to the point, it was extremely stupid for Hitler’s forces to invade the islands in the first place seeing as the islands are tiny and have no strategic value whatsoever. Also, the islsnds even then before they became the famous tax haven they are now were a favourite place for Britain’s super-rich to go and live in. Needless to say, these were precisely the kind of people in Britain who formed the backbone of opposition to Churchill’s war. Invading the islands and putting super-rich British people under foreign German Nazi occupation would have had the effect of lessening these type of people’s opposition to Churchill.
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Yes, the history of the Channel Islands as the only British territory to fall under foreign Nazi German occupation is very interesting. I would like to visit the Channel Islands one day. I have not been but if I did I would visit the underground German occupation hospital in Jersey.
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Jersey is beautiful. Not only for the beautiful beaches and sea, but the parks full of flowers. Residents were not allowed on the beaches during the occupation, nor allowed to catch fish.
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I have always had some interest in the history of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. These small British territories that are not formally parts of the United Kingdom and have internal self-governance and their own parliaments are quite fascinating.
The Isle of Man was once a bastion of social conservatism within these islands and thus what nightmares are made of for tofu-eating and Starbucks’ Latte-drinking Guardian readers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Isle_of_Man
https://www.corpun.com/manx.htm
https://www.corpun.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Isle_of_Man
Now, the island has gone to pot with increasingly daft and just plain WRONG liberal values eg so-called ‘assisted dying’ or, as it should be known as ‘assisted SUICIDE’ which has been made legal.
I have wanted to visit the island but now I am not so sure about going to ‘Death Island’.
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Apparently, the independent politician (there are few party affiliated ones on the island) who was the prime mover behind legalising assisted suicide on the Isle of Man has now started a campaign for more immoral sickness by agitating for the legalisation of drugs like Cannabis.
How bloody SICK can you get? Whilst cannabis is not as dangerous as hard drugs like heroin it can still cause sickness and dangerous effects in those who use it. Cannabis consumption should remain illegal for most. It should only be legalised for the small number of people who can derive some medical use from it and then only under the very strict supervision of a doctor.
Here Singapore’s Drug Control Agency describes the ill-effects of taking cannabis:
https://www.cnb.gov.sg
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The Isle of Man has legalised civil partnerships/civil unions for gay and lesbian couples but then took a significant further step in legislating for gay marriage. That was wrong.
Civil partnerships/civil unions for gays and lesbians are OK and an appropriate way of the state recognising homosexual relationships but the state on behalf of society as a whole can and should have a model for straight relationships with that being one man and one woman marriage. There is no need to redefine marriage.
https://www.c4m.org.uk
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Jersey is about one hundred miles South of the British mainland and therefore has decent weather most of the time. Infact, I believe I am correct in stating the island has the most hours of sunshine per year of any of the British Isles.
That good weather is one reason the island has been a famous place for Britain’s ultra-wealthy to go and live. This process of moving there started a long time ago and before Jersey and the Channel Islands as a whole became tax havens in the 1960’s.
One of my uncles spent his honeymoon in Jersey.
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Always uplifting to see our frog neighbours excelling.
This made me laugh and laugh.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/710864478139952
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That idiotic stunt that went wrong at a stadium in France is the consequence of moronic Europeans imitating the Americans with their absurd Hollywood-style silly stunts.
BTW, I would rather live in France than in the Islamic multicultural “paradise” called the UK. The French equivalents to the National Trust or English Heritage are not run by f… traitors raming down your throat “the horrors of slavery & colonial oppression.” And let´s not talk about the British museums ‘ websites. 🤮🤮🤮
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According to the latest unhinged comment puff pieces in The Guardian most notably one writen by Simon Jenkins Reform UK’s upsurge is a temporary thing and the lowly pleb voters of the UK will flock backwards to voting for crap Label-Labour and fake Conservative any day now.
Do globalist weirdo writers in the Guardian and their readers ever get out into the REAL world and put down those Starbucks’ Lattes?
Michael Heseltine has put his oar in too saying his usual out of touch rubbish. Apparantly, a Tory revival can come about via the party being more positive about mass immigration. That must be easy to say when you are in God’s Waiting Room, are a deluded pro-EU fantasist and have a vast fortune.
Apparently, other Tories are worried about the party’s fate including one ex MP called Simon Clarke whose political astuteness can be judged by his voting for Coco The Clown to be party leader and 6th form intellectual lightweight Badenough.
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Wales, in my opinion, has more right to pursue independence than Scotland does. After all, it is more culturally distinct via having a quite widely-spoken language of its own. Wales’s problem though is that an economic case for separation would be very difficult to make.
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Get royally STUFFED, Sadiq Islamist Khan! Places like where I was born ie Romford do not generally vote for your useless, profoundly anti-British party so why should boroughs like Havering give-up its Green Belt?
The Green Belt is NOT a luxury the country can do without. It is a NECESSARY way of preventing urban sprawl. It is this country’s most succesful spatial planning policy
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Also, the Green Belt was a LABOUR PARTY idea originally though implemented by the Tories in the 1950’s. It is as needed now as it was then and perhaps even more so. Let us have no more talk of this nonsensical idea of ‘the Grey Belt’..
https://www.cpre.org.uk
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Instead of damaging the coherence of Green Belt policy and undermining its central aims through the ludicrous idea of re designating some parts of it as ‘The Grey Belt’ why not create MORE Green Belts? For instance, why does the urban area of Portsmouth and Southhampton not have a Green Belt around it?
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