My flabber is well and truly ghasted

From yesterday's Daily Hatemail:

More than a thousand pubs and village shops could close during the coming year due to the ongoing shortage of affordable homes in rural areas, it was warned today...

The mass closures are being blamed on declining demand for services in villages where local families have been priced out of the market by an influx of wealthy commuters and second homeowners. The gentrification of the countryside and the shortage of affordable homes has also made it increasingly difficult for pubs and shops to find workers who can afford to live locally on modest wages.

Wow! I always thought the DH was the last bastion of the NIMBY's and the Hallowed Green Belt Brigade. They don't even bother blaming this on immigrants (who, to be fair, clog up the waiting lists for council housing but hardly any of them move to the countryside, so the impact on house prices as such is negligible).