David Cameron’s plans to reduce immigration have obviously stirred up a hornets’ nest of differing opinion, for and against.
Nevertheless, with the population expanding at an alarming rate, desperate measures need to be taken to ensure Britain doesn’t become an enormous concrete jungle – although the situation is already out of control.
Solutions to our population dilemma have been controversial, to say the least.
But mass-immigration is unquestionably an obvious cause – along with a more natural one, (singer Bobby Darin’s song, Multiplication comes to mind).
Our Government’s multicultural immigration has seen Britain mirroring New York with its cosmopolitan culture.
Yes, different nationalities can live together, but the south of England is not the ‘Big Apple’. What is appropriate across the pond, doesn’t translate so well here.
We may be bedfellows with the USA, but adopting their immigration blueprint is a trait not perfectly suited to our small country, which is fast heading for an unprecedented 71 million-strong population.
The eco-town idea has been championed as a solution to the population problem but cracks in its conception and fundamental workability have been exposed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT), which successfully campaigned to have a proposed 10-15,000-home eco-town rejected at Weston-on-the Green (residents at Bicester have been less successful with a 5,000-home eco-town imminent).
Furthermore, eco-towns are still on the Government’s agenda with its aim for more ‘affordable housing’.
But government-led think-tanks are drawing up proposals, then subsequently hitting a brick wall of defiance, anger and protest because residents don’t want them built in their own backyard.
Is it really too much to ask for local residents to have peace and quality of life?
The Government is, in fact, spinning its wheels trying to find a solution to the ever looming population problem, while turning a blind eye to the root cause of excessive and detrimental housing: mass immigration.
Our gorgeous Green Belt is being eroded year after year with new laws passed every year to allow yet more housing.
It’s a no-win situation for our green and pleasant land until the powers that be ultimately come to their senses.
However, David Cameron’s statement to reduce immigration, is, to many, a feather in his cap, but it is a proposed, and long overdue, vote-winner that previous governments should have implemented years ago.
DAVID TINSON, Moorland Road, Witney
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