The Green Belt was an Old Labour idea, and essentially it still is.
What its inhabitants fear from the Government's latest consultation is the Right's ideology in action, but unusually in its own backyard. Not nice, is it?
Not that the Right can do anything about it. On this as on everything else, it is tied to Boris Johnson and to whatever he may feel like doing.
I’m glad opposition is building among Tory MPs representing these constituencies. This is a conservative cause if ever there was one: defending “the particular, the small and the beautiful” against big developers.
ReplyDeleteI see no reason to believe that Conservative Councillors are any less in the big developers' pockets than Labour ones are.
DeleteFrom the Torygraph to the back benches opposition is gathering pace. It was Labour’s policy of mass immigration that led us here, but we should never try to build our way out.
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Believe in it when you see it. They have nowhere else to go politically. They have to take whatever they are given.
DeleteBoris can only get any policy through if he has a majority for it. On this, it’s increasingly clear he doesn’t. We won over Huawei and we need to do the same again.
ReplyDeleteHe'll get through whatever he wants. Rebellions are useless without the Official Opposition, and no one is more in the pocket of property developers than the Labour Right is.
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