Originally Posted by
pablo42
Phew! Sorry WW, I don't believe any, really any, statistics. They can say whatever you want. I'm not advocating people live in slums. I want people to live near open country. It's getting harder but it's achievable. I have flown all over the World and below me was mostly green. I don't believe the Greens statistics neither. I usually believe what I see, I've seen quite a bit.
I have flown over the UK many times and driven all over it. The bro-in-law, a pilot with the RAF, agrees with me, that the UK is mainly fields. For 30 years he flew over it. Get off the M and A roads and drive the Bs, and all you see is field after subsidised field and no one on the roads. It is another world on those roads- not the England I know. Settlements spring up around communications: M and A roads and rail, this gives the wrong impression of the UK
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Getting harder to live in the country? Near impossible unless you have money. Over 90% of us live in towns and cities. I would say 25% of them would run into the country if they could.
The 7.5% settle of the UK is a very hard figure. The average person thinks 60% is built on the propaganda is so effective.
We should not be in the business of making large land owners super rich. And creating a situation where we can't even walk on the land.
Once again we cannot sprawl anywhere, as there is just too much land.
A matter of basic freedom. If I want to build a house and live in the middle of a field I should have the right to do so - SSI, national parks excepted of course. We live in a controlled state. No government wants to give that control up.
Speak to a brainwashed bumpkin about opening up land and more than likely he will immediately spout that you are a commie or something for taking away the riches of the large land owners. They do not know what freedom means.
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