We should not forget the sacrifice given by soldiers
R. J. Bray asked the question, “Why are people constantly trying to make the public feel ashamed of being British and their heritage?”
Seems a simple enough question to me, it did not make me choke over my breakfast cornflakes
Dorril another opportunity to vent his spiel, or in the language of a non-historian, “put the boot in” against this country.
When the Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede in 1215 detailing the rights of British citizens, within a mile there is a magnificent stone memorial, which lists all the names and details the countries of RAF servicemen who were killed in action in World War 2.
Many were from all parts of the “old” British Empire with different cultures and religions.
These men, unlike many who now debase or devalue Great Britain, cared and respected for this “land of hope and glory” to lay down their life to keep Britain free.
Perhaps we should not forget.
Proposed law change sure to anger voters
BERNARD McGuin is correct when he says the changes to planning laws and processes are at this stage only proposals.
They do though help demonstrate how hopelessly out of touch with reality this government is, as the proposals are undoubtedly going to antagonise, amongst many, a big swathe of core Conservative Party supporters.
There is already trouble at t’mill brewing in them there leafy shires, and the most likely outcome would seem to be there will be yet another government U-turn.
As Bernard says, there is going to be continuing protection for Green Belt land, but what he doesn’t say is that once land has been earmarked for Housing growth, local councils and residents are going to have little say in what actually gets built.
Local Planning Committees are going to be abolished and property developers are going to have pretty much a free hand to do what they want. As Crispin Truman (the Chief Executive of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England) put it, ‘property developers are going to be able to build what they want,where they want,and for the most part when they want.’
There is undoubtedly a need for a lot more quality, affordable housing in this country, but as part of the proposals the current mechanisms for the delivery of affordable housing are going to be abolished, and it seems we are likely to end up with less affordable housing rather than more. That is certainly Crispin Truman’s take on things.
Given all of this, we might well wonder what is motivating the proposed changes in planning laws and processes. Surely it couldn’t possibly be anything to do with the £11m which property developers have donated to the Conservative Party over the last year or so? Could it?