Infrastructure and Development

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: I think what many of those of us who grew up in this country with inside toilets, a heat source, if not central heating, enough to eat, access to education and the NHS are perhaps not always able to appreciate the appalling conditions, with all those things absent, that many who arrive in Britain, legally and illegally as economic migrants have left behind.  They can and will latch on anywhere they can - for what we long ago left behind in terms of standards is to them a better life.

The problem with this is that we do not have the wealth, the resources, the space, the jobs, the accommodation for all these people and the effect of their arrival is to debase our average living standards in all of these areas.  This is going to get much worse.

The question needs to be asked as to why our borders have effectively been abandoned in a number of ways and what the agenda is in play to which we are not privy - European homogenisation or even this on a global level.  Have we signed up to this - or have our politicians been quietly suborned to a tacit programme.

The sewers are not the real issue, they are a symptom of the presence of sewer rats in the political system who are no longer telling us the truth about anything.

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: The reality is that in the Sixties, nearly three quarters of England was undisturbed by development. Today, urban sprawl and the roads it brings
intrudes across more than half of the country.

Do they? The Office of National Statistics appears to disagree:

"In England, "78.6% of urban areas is designated as natural rather
than built". Since urban only covers a tenth of the country, this means
that the proportion of England's landscape which is built on is…… 2.27%."

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