Government Minister Misleads Public?

More than 1,500 square miles of open countryside — an area more than twice the size of Greater London — needs to be built on to meet housing demand, the Government’s planning minister Nick Boles has apparently warned, in an interview with BBC’s ‘Newsnight’, which is due to be broadcast tonight.

In the interview reported on the Daily Telegraph website, Mr Boles a Conservative minister appointed in the September reshuffle, is reported to have said “We’re going to protect the green belt – but if people want to have housing for their kids they have got to accept we need to build more on some open land.

“In the UK and England at the moment we’ve got about nine per cent of land developed. All we need to do is build on another two to three per cent of land and we’ll have solved a housing problem.”

But this would mean the amount of land paved over would increase from 4,531 sq m to more than 6,000 sq m. The 1,510 square mile increase is approximately two and a half times the 607 square mile area covered by Greater London.

A report last year from the Institute of Public Policy Research think tank warned that by 2025 England will face a shortfall of 750,000 homes and Mr Boles apparently suggested that those people who oppose more development are being selfish for denying adequate space for their children and grandchildren.

“It’s my job”, he said, “to make the arguments to these people [those who oppose development] that if they carry on writing letters their kids are never going to get a place with a garden to bring up their grandkids.”

However the ceaseless demand for new house builds does not come from the natural population increase of the British people because the fertility rate for the UK (Total period Fertility Rate) for 2012 shows that women living in Britain, including those of immigrant stock, are on average producing less children than are necessary to maintain our current population. An average fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman is required to maintain our current population, yet the UK fertility rate is only 1.91 children per woman.

According to official statistics, Population Estimates by Ethnic Group 2002-2009, the ‘White British’ and ‘White Irish’ populations of England and Wales declined between 2002 and 2009 from 46,365,500 to 46,256,300 people.

What this means is that the increase in population that is fuelling the current insatiable demand for new houses in this country, has nothing to do with the number of children or grandchildren we British have and is instead the direct result of the current historically record high immigration levels.

Someone who aspires to be the Minister of Planning for the British government should be aware of these facts and as Mr Boles makes no mention of them, we might be forgiven for suspecting that Mr Boles is incompetent or has some other reason for wishing to mislead the British public.

We suspect that Mr Boles is politically astute enough to realise that it would not sit well with the British people if it became widely known that 1,510 square miles of British countryside are to be concreted over in the run-up to 2025, simply in order to house a massive volume of additional immigrants that the Coalition government intend to let into Britain.

We at Western Spring call upon the British government to stop concreting over our countryside; to end mass immigration into Britain and to reduce the current overcrowding of our land by repatriating as many as possible of the millions of immigrants that have poured into this country in recent decades. Only then will we be able to save our people from dispossession, preserve our countryside, and maintain the quality of our eco-systems.