Tuesday 11 December 2012

A cow attack, NIMBYism and racist undertone, all in one short article.

Spotted by Duncan Stott in The Guardian:

Really, I'm just dredging up reasons not to care about the country and prepare myself for a post-Boles concrete future, when we won't have much countryside left. Nick Boles, planning minister, wants us to build on an extra 1,500 square miles of countryside.

Boles, for all his faults, merely stated that we could build another ten million homes if we were prepared to use up about three per cent of land which is currently undeveloped (or whatever the exact figures were). What sort of complete idiot do you have to be to describe the remaining fifty million acres of countryside as "not much"?

2 comments:

Old BE said...

Cap rents and decriminalise squatting? Yep, that'll increase supply.

And WTAF is "brown-fill"? Does the dimwit mean "brownfield"?

BE

Mark Wadsworth said...

BE, "brown-fill" is what NIMBYs did to their underpants when they read about Boles' suggestion.