The British elites want to make the British countryside more diverse
At the moment, they’re not talking about “diverse” people moving to the countryside. They’re talking about tourism:
National Landscapes, a charity mostly funded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), has 46 landscapes, previously called areas of outstanding natural beauty. Management plans for each area are aiming to address the barriers faced by underrepresented and diverse groups to accessing the countryside.
What are these “barriers”? Are the Brits who live there banning “people of color”? No, they’re not. It’s the latter who don’t want to visit. But hey, that needs to change:
Reports that have been published gradually since a Defra report in 2019 reveal that many communities perceived the countryside as “being for white people and middle-class people”.
The 2019 report said: “The countryside is seen by both black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and white people as very much a ‘white’ environment. If that is true today, then the divide is only going to widen as society changes. Our countryside will end up being irrelevant to the country that actually exists.”
“The country that actually exists” is becoming less and less white – thanks to unlimited “migration” – and so the countryside must become so, too. The tourism seems to be just the beginning of a larger plan, because why else would they be caring what people do with their vacation time?
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The latest region to update its five-year management plan was Cranborne Chase National Landscape, which overlaps the boundaries of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset. Its plan, published last month, said that it would “develop strategies to reach people or communities with protected characteristics such as people without English as a first language” and “diversity of ethnicity”.
On Monday, National Landscapes published an update titled “Nature is for everyone”.
It read: “There are innumerable reasons why people don’t spend time in the outdoors and National Landscapes teams are committed to reducing the barriers to access.”
“Protected characteristics”? What does that mean? And again we have that phrase “barriers to access” – as though there’s some sort of de jure apartheid going on, rather than the choice of members of those “protected” ethnic and language groups.
In Luton, the Nature Calling project coordinated visits from groups from all backgrounds including people seeking asylum who had mainly been indoors since arriving in the UK. …
… [T]he management plan for Malvern Hills covering 2025-30, published in March, acknowledged that attitudes varied within ethnic minority groups.
“Many minority peoples have no connection to nature in the UK because their parents and their grandparents did not feel safe enough to take them or had other preoccupations,” the report said.
It added: “For some people with a recent history or lived experience of subsistence within the family, having come from rural areas in developing countries, nature can be associated with hardship and struggle in having to work the land.”
Nidderdale National Landscape in North Yorkshire said there were a variety of barriers stopping ethnic minorities from visiting areas of outstanding beauty. The consultation draft for its management plan, published last August, read: “These can be practical issues such as lack of transport and a lack of awareness but may also involve concerns about how they will be received when visiting an unfamiliar place.”
You will visit nature, and you will like it.
And I’m sure these programs will help the people who live in the area be even more “receptive” to the visitors.
Midsomer Murders has gone heavily Black.
I think there’s no longer any hope for Britain….a very sad thing to watch
Outside of disaster relief, payments to outfits who obtained government contracts via sealed bidding, and redemptions and re-imbursements under voucher and insurance programs which finance individual clients who selected the service provider in question, the quantum of public money which should be distributed to British philanthropies should be £0. There should be a pipeline to medical service providers, long term care providers, schools, and legal aid societies (intermediated through the customers of said agencies).
Reminds one of the Democrats’ dream to flood the middle- and upper-class neighborhoods, towns and suburbs with new diversity-affirming inhabitants….
If you force it to happen, it can work…is, I guess, the theory.
The goal, actually , is to make such a policy country-wide…just as it is to make all states Blue…so that there will be no place to be able to flee to…
…except, maybe, to Musk’s Moon or Mars “communities”…
Would an East Asian find the fijords of Norway and the endemic Norwegian Blue parrots things of beauty or an alien hostile environment (ice, snow, glaciers, frigid waters? Maybe the Norwegian’s can take up the challenge from their British do no harmers(aka English twits (not a bird)).
Non-British minorities are largely concentrated in England, especially the Greater London area. Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland see them only in their very largest cities and at lower percentages. I wonder if they are going to try to force diversity on the devolved countries too? But their own devolved parliaments may do it for them.
The relative passivity of the Irish in the face of imposed demographic replacement, both Northern and Republican, is astonishing in light of how recently they were killing one another over such things and how intractable that violence appeared to be at one time.
Diverse is an umbrella incorporation of class-disordered ideologies including racism, sexism, ageism, etc. Diversity is a dogmatic denial of individual dignity a la Pro-Choice religion, principle of political congruence, etc. It’s the first, second, and progressive refuge of bigots wielding a liberal license. #HateLovesAbortion
There is an insanity gripping the white upper classes, both here and abroad.
They are like proverbial lemmings acceding to an inexplicable urge to rush headlong off a cliff to their destruction. Like a suicidal urge that grips an individual, it has nothing to do with reason; in fact, it is the opposite of reason. It is the outworking of a pathological urge to erase oneself and ones posterity from history. Like all such pathologies, there are many attempts at explanation, but none seem to capture the full depth and breadth of the sickness. Like a great plague, it seems to capture its victims and ensnare them in a sickness from which there is no hope of cure. We who have been immunized against it look on in dismay and horror, impotent to effect a cure for the afflicted and yet knowing that unless they are culled from our midst, it may only be a matter of time until we suffer the consequences. Hard choices must be made, and made in time to put an end to the madness before it engulfs us all.
‘The relative passivity of the Irish in the face of imposed demographic replacement…’
Where’s the IRA when you need them?
Put two and two together and it’s pretty obvious the ‘Troubles’ were an artifact of the Cold War, sponsored by the Soviets. It wasn’t that long after the Soviet Union dissolved that the ‘Troubles’ came to an end.
Much like Cuba and their much vaunted ‘Health Care’ system.
Culture Marxism is how you destroy a nation.
Replacement theory is not a theory.
Moving people from their country of origin, with its culture, traditions, climate, family ties, was thought to be benevolent and generous, taking them from poverty to a comfort, but our first world civilization, w/ its strip malls, television, scrolling addiction, lacks roots and connection. Catholic Charities started this 40-50 years ago, and on a small scale it might work out, but then the floodgates opened, and the majority of people turned a blind eye.
Richard, give ‘em a break.
They’re just doin’ what they’re being
toldconditioned to do—um, no, let’s call it “TRAINED” to do:Hype, Hate, Hysteria, Hate, Histrionics, Hate, Hyperbolize, Hate, Hate, Hate!!!
To be sure, they do it all exceeding well!…just like our own DPUSA…with the full-fledged, loyal support—or rather, BECAUSE?—of the practically global, ubiquitous, iniquitous, inexorable, execrable state-sponsored MEDIA…sigh…. One might even make the claim that they don’t even HAVE to be persuaded….
Just a sec. Did I mention “hate”?
(I guess one could also throw in to “lie”, fear” and “panic”…”demonize” and “slander”—you know, everything good Liberals should be able to do…in order to defend…well, whatever…they’re told to defend…
To recap, they’re just doin’ what they’re supposed to…
A Diversity of color blocs.
That said, a diversity of individuals, minority of one. #HateLovesAbortion
Britain has fallen (a long time ago) and only a modern version of Sir Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher can save Britain. I am so glad I got to visit London many, many times before the transformation into Londonistan. When I got off the tube (the Underground) in 2024 at Whitechapel Station I thought I was in Pakistan.
Diversity is definitely not our strength!!
@Molly Brown:Put two and two together and it’s pretty obvious the ‘Troubles’ were an artifact of the Cold War, sponsored by the Soviets.
Americans were giving money to the IRA. Not sure about the Federal government, but American citizens in America were a primary source of their support for many years, especially in Boston.
The warfare in Ireland long predated the Troubles or indeed the Soviet Union, it was the result of hundreds of years of attempts at demographic replacement, settler colonialism, whatever you want to call it. Not to say that Ireland wasn’t war free before the British took an interest, of course.
Ah who can forget the British elites who at the Oxford Union in 1939 voted that they would not fight for their own country.
It seems that more often than not the “British elites” should be expatriates, but who would want them?
“Men without chests” (C.S. Lewis) they have always been. Now they aren’t even men or women.
Um, 1933, but yeah…
…although…
“…those students would respond when the crunch came in 1939. They did fight for King and Country.”
https://samf.substack.com/p/for-king-and-country
OTOH, too many of ‘em decided to spy for the USSR, which up to a point might have been understandable or justifiable; but ONLY up to a very certain point.
Reminds one of the Democrats’ dream to flood the middle- and upper-class neighborhoods, towns and suburbs with new diversity-affirming inhabitants…
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I assume the people who created and administered the program had a variety of motives. IIRC, the foundational idea was derived from a pilot study of welfare-to-work programs which discovered that people randomly assigned to suburban housing had better outcomes than did those who remained in the inner city. Follow up interviews indicated that a crucial factor was that the people in the suburbs were less inhibited about looking for work because the streets were safer. As we speak, about 2 million people live in Section 8 units, i.e. 0.6% of the population. It may generate notable trouble in certain loci (e.g. Ferguson, Missouri), but the program is contextually small.
@Art Deco:the foundational idea was derived from a pilot study of welfare-to-work programs which discovered that people randomly assigned to suburban housing had better outcomes than did those who remained in the inner city.
Yes, this is Magic Dirt theory, which is a subset of “Wet streets cause rain” theory, in which a correlation is identified but the cause and effect reversed.
Yes if you move people from a place where many people behave badly to one where most people don’t behave badly, their quality of life will go up, but those people who are moved will take their behavior with them when they go, and if you moved too many you get what you had before. It’s not like Section 8 housing is reserved for those who behave themselves and really just want to look for work.
Yes, this is Magic Dirt theory, which is a subset of “Wet streets cause rain” theory, in which a correlation is identified but the cause and effect reversed.
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No, it wasn’t.
@Art DecoNo, it wasn’t.
LOL, argument clinic.
Says the statistically speaking Flim Flam man (Nick). LOL back at yah.
Barry Meislin: thanks for the correction, “spot on” about the British elites spying for Stalin and their fellow communists.
We are seeing governments like those of Canada and the UK deliberately going out of their way to insult, attack and provoke people who just want to be left alone for the crime of just wanting to be left alone. It will not end well. These governments are spiteful and contemptuous of their citizens/subjects, and the U.S. really isn’t that far behind.
@Rick Gutleber: These governments are spiteful and contemptuous of their citizens/subjects, and the U.S. really isn’t that far behind.
We keep electing them too, for some reason. I mean, these are not puppet governments imposed on us by foreign conquerors, neither are they hereditary aristocrats or a military junta. Douglas Adams’ parable of the lizard people comes to mind.
As long as I can remember, the people of my state elect legislators who then do stuff we don’t like and don’t do things we do like. So we pass initiatives and referenda to get rid of the stuff we don’t like and force them to do stuff we do like. Then we re-elect the legislators, that then undo what we did like and do more stuff we don’t like, and the cycle repeats.
As for Congress, everyone seems to like their own Congressmen and Senators and think that all the others are somehow to blame.
The “we” that Nick is referring to are the Democrat voters and their party machine in the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia blob, and further north, Bellingham. They are “nice” people, Shirley.
Related…
Holy Chicago deep-dish pizza! It’s that Pritzker critter again… (or should that be “Pritzker kidder”?)…
“…Can the Gaslighting Get Even More Brazen?”—
https://instapundit.com/777483/
Opening blurb:
Meanwhile, even the Bears can’t bear it any longer (though to be fair to hizzonerless, “Biden” WOULD have found him the money…from somewhere…to build a spanking new stadium…and maybe just maybe “Biden” will get that opportunity in 2029!!)
Just when you go to the British countryside, don’t dare bring a dog.
They used to be the most pro-canine people in the world, even beyond us.
The big wave of UK immigration started in the early 2000s with Labour and Tony Blair. Some called it a conspiracy:
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Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.
As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.
Critics said the revelations showed a “conspiracy” within Government to impose mass immigration for “cynical” political reasons.
–Tom Whitehead, 23 October 2009
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html
“He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.”
Nah, that couldn’t happen in the US …