This has been most enjoyable, and the elected govt must as usual be ■■■■■■■ themselves.
They, the govts of the last 40 years have imported millions of people into this country without any prior (voiced) thoughts about how to cope with an increasingly transient population far in excess of what our islands can sensibly accommodate.
Oh yes, we can have 24 hour 7 day a week transport work entertainment etc but the thing is who, in our native population was ever asked if they wanted their country transforming into a bloody great airbus station.
Here we are arguing about who should have the money, north versus south, meanwhile those with fat wallets are as always finding their wallets ever fatter and those at the bottom of the ladder find themselves trodden further down day by day.
There is such a thing as quality of life, not necessarily linked to disposable income to buy new cars electronic toys and foreign holidays, this used to be a country of relative peace and quiet, there were industrial areas which were noisy but you didn’t have to move very far out (certainly an easy commute of 20 miles would suffice) to find a bit of space to live and breathe in, and most areas provided affordable homes that the local economy wage base would support the buying of by people who worked for a living.
Almost no one worked on a Sunday, 38 years ago i used to drive a long M1 night trunk, you could drive for 10 minutes without passing another vehicle coming the other way in the middle of the week, and some nights count on one hand how many cars (not a single lorry) you would see going the same way.
They have changed our country for ever, and the change is still going on, they’ve turned the south east especially round that there London into a living hell, overcrowding noise ridiculous cost of housing no room to breathe, the same has happened in all major cities and surrounds, and here we are clamouring for our share of more of the same, though some like CF rightly want to see a bit of NIMBYism and that is understandable because its got beyond the bad joke stage.
Is it maybe time to sit back and stop looking at ‘whats my house worth’ and ‘how can i claw a bit more’, and thought deeply about where we as a country are heading, and started voted accordingly before we find our country sinking under an unmanageable and still rising population which will bring even more overcrowding hell to even more areas year on year.
They don’t talk about grand schemes to make the North into a land of wealth for benevolent reasons, its because the south east expansion is running out of space and they want to turn whats left of ordinary peoples rural lives into the same hell that has befallen those who couldn’t afford to get out when the going was good, HS2 being a good example, we’ve run out of living space down the south but still want the money so you can live in what was once the peaceful North in a dormitory but still fill our LondonCentric coffers and fly via Heathrow to keep the money going round.
IE I guess they mean more transport provision for northerners at the expense of the quality of life and environment of those living in the south east.
