Thursday 21 December 2017

Green No More?

Sir Paul Beresford stood up at yesterday's Prime Minister's Questions to defend the Green Belt, a thoroughly Old Labour and non-"free"-market idea that now subsidises his own County of Surrey to use more of its land for golf courses than for housing.

England in general uses as much land for one as for the other, not as the application of any libertarian or High Tory principle about private property, but because of public subsidy.

I want to carry on believing in this post-War (and, in London, pre-War) social democratic project. Give me a reason to do so.

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