The British countryside will be made into a less “white environment” under nationwide diversity plans.
Officials in rural areas, including the Chilterns and the Cotswolds, have pledged to attract more minorities under plans drawn up by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).
The plans follow Defra-commissioned reports that claimed the countryside would become “irrelevant” in a multicultural society, as it was a “white environment” principally enjoyed by the “white middle class”.
National Landscapes – previously called areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) – and their local councils have since committed to a number of diversity targets.
The Chilterns National Landscape team has set out proposals that include community outreach schemes to attract more Muslims to the area, particularly from nearby Luton.
More diverse staff will be recruited, marketing material will be produced featuring people visibly from ethnic minorities, and written in “community languages”.
Research has also been commissioned to support this work, some of which suggests that dogs should be kept under tighter control, as some groups are scared of them.
The government’s short of money these days, right?
No doubt the planners will refuse permission for building any mosques.
They’ll have to translate ‘Get orf moi land!’ into Hindi and Creole…
A shotgun pointed in your direction doesn’t really require a translation!
I watched the football highlights this weekend. An absurdly disproportionate share of the players were black. Somefink otta be dun abaht it.
“Community languages”. ie, English. The language of the community you’re living in.
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Have you considered the possibility that they’re acting out of malice?
They’ve realised that those hideous, reactionary, Tory country people have yet to have their noses sufficiently rubbed in diversity. This realisation has come to the woke public sector middle classes of Crouch End and the DFLs out walking their cockapoos, seeing yokels rather than walking bin liners.
Malice is certainly one of their motives, but stupidity, conformity, self-interest and ideological arrogance are in the mix, too. It’s also the feminised HR mindset applied to wider society….Feminism is the fons et origo of all wokery.
TBH, it’s not even feminism, it’s just large-scale feminisation.
The feminisation of society is the pus from the boil of feminism.
I recently bought shares in Pets at Home. They had a female CEO who left with immediate effect (cough) after five profit warnings. Destroyed 1/3rd of the value of the company in 3 years but dead proud of her OBE for “services to retail”. Posts on her LinkedIn about being a female CEO on International Women’s Day.
They put the male ex-CEO of Waitrose in charge of the company at which point I figured it was probably cheap now. Get a bloke who knows how to run stores.
There’s a few women who are good CEOs but you have to find the more blokeish ones.
As a dogwalker, I am deeply grateful that during my sojourn in the English countryside there were no local Muslim communities to whinge about my beasties getting some exercise.
As I’ve remarked on another thread, the silly cunts doing this also forget, or are unaware, that our appreciation of “nature” is somewhat peculiar to the European Romantic tradition. Y’know, whities. And that for many other cultures, “nature” is something to be feared and avoided because it contains things with big teeth.
And venomous things with small or no teeth.
Welshmen?
Gazans?
Defra? Blast off & nuke it from orbit.
They won’t quit until every household has the proper % of every category.
1.7 children.
Ah, is that why they’re so keen on chopping bits of children off?
When can we put an end to these turbulent priests?
Perhaps these numpties in Defra have been influenced by the cultivated fields, gardens, and copses in Libya, Yemen, Mali, or Sudan?
Gaza.
Anyone been to an Arab country on holiday? Haven’t myself but suspect it’s just not in the culture to go enjoy a bit countryside, that the people climbing Toubkal or birdwatching in that depression in Egypt are western and it’s not something the locals enjoy unless they’re getting paid to be porters or guides. Need that middle class culture.
The only nonwhite country I’ve been to that takes a comparable interest in “nature” is Japan, but it’s Shinto-driven, and tends to be interested in small things without regard to context. Hence, Zen gardens next to Kawasaki steelworks. So, comparable to ours, but far from being the same.
I’ve visited Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan. Nature as such doesn’t seem to appeal to Arabs, but they are very enthusiastic about gardens…
Perfumed? I thought for cultural reasons they entertained themselves with boys. Not much gardening there.
And gardens aren’t nature. That’s the point of them: to assert control over nature.
It’s a statement. Islamic gardens are big on water in a climate that makes it scarce. Only the top guys could afford it. See Alhambra. I guess the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were similar from the previous culture there
And gardens aren’t nature.
Quite so. Like your Zen gardens next to Kawasaki steelworks.
Uphill gardening, Norman.
Indeed, Otto. A term you seldom hear nowadays.
Along with fudge-packing, pillow-biters and sausages in gravy…
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I’ve done a couple of tours in the Gulf (with Hot Chocolate) and holidayed in Dubai. I didn’t notice a single local paying any kind of aesthetic attention to the natural environment. Point of fact, they simply treat it as a rubbish dump.
https://youtu.be/l386CN3ENY4?si=G3Z1f_sGH9PXo-7r
An excellent watch.
People who are actually living in nature or who have lived in nature are desperate to get away from it.
The French don’t have an equivalent of Beatrix Potter, an upper middle class urbanite who romanticised country living. There’s more farming, real country living. So, you can get pate de foie gras in Auchan, where here, it’s probably easier to procure teenage prostitutes and crack.
“National Landscapes – previously called areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB)”
And how much is that going to cost? Throwing away every bit of paper with the words AONB on it, changing every website to remove AONB. And people going “What’s National Landscapes?”. What the fuck was wrong with “Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty”?
They don’t want the ASA on their backs when the imported diversity has ensuered it’s no longer beautiful, maybe?
“What’s beautiful about a place where I get my trainers muddy and can’t get a McDonalds?”
Actual quote.
Maybe the problem was that they were white trainers.
It’s also inviting people to compare things, the woke hate that.
This made me chuckle:
Malvern Hills National Landscape said in proposals: “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 survival preoccupations.”
Did they think it was like something out of ‘Riotous Assembly’ with people taking potshots at people of colour as they ventured into the countryside.
As the excellent Esteban says the only solution is that advocated by Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn in ‘Aliens’
‘Nuke the place from orbit it’s the only way to be sure’
Every single employee involved in this report or reports needs to be dismissed with no possibility of appeal. Their pension rights need liquidation into a cash sum. To me they are fifth columnists for ISIS – nothing more, nothing less.
Indeed; yet the idea that there are ‘no-go’ areas for English people in some of our towns and cities is regularly mocked by the left…
Look, we all know that when whitey goes to any country where the ropers live, whitey has to change his behaviour to conform to roper customs and culture. And when ropers go any country where whitey lives, whitey has to change his behaviour to conform to roper customs and culture.
This shit will continue until:
a) As a nation we decide enough is enough, bans islam, closes all the mosques and tells moslems to fuck off.
b) We become part of the ummah.
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This cannot be said enough. Most of this isn’t about taking an action but removing one. You’ll get productive people coming here, who are civilised otherwise.
When I lived near the Chilterns I was occasionally dragged out for a walk. Somtimes we saw an Indian family as well as white every class, not just middle. Never any black or muslim. The muslims have been in Luton in large numbers for over fifty years. They could walk to the hills if they wanted to. They don’t. They came from the country in Pakistan and flocked to the cities. So did the West Indians. No problem to be solved, as they can do it any time.
I lived in Midsommer murders country. They had a location across the road a couple of times. Midsommer murders were notorious for being too white. Meanwhile the actual murders in the area (Thame) were seemingly all committed by immigrants. The burned body dump at Milton common, Poles. The decapitation at the Oxfordshire Golf club, Albanian. Double family murder in Thame itself, Turkish. Just sayin’.
The series went rapidly downhill when characters of colour were incongruously shoehorned into every episode despite anyone with a functioning brain knowing that none of them would be the actual murderer.
TV things set in London often underrepresent the ethnic population. The East End of London is much browner than Eastenders. But rural England is almost entirely white. You can go to Devizes and looking for non-white people is like playing Where’s Wally.
Anything historic can get in the fucking sea. We know how white London was in the 1940s. We know that Michael Powell hired non-actors living by the docks for background extras in Black Narcissus because there just weren’t many non-white actors here.
You can go to Devizes and looking for non-white people is like playing Where’s Wally.
Suits me. Long may it stay that way. That’s exactly what I’m looking for. According to the woke my Japanese wife is “white-adjacent”, so no problem there.
It used to be said, truthfully for all I know, that in apartheid South Africa Japanese were classed as white and Chinese as Asians.
But face it, a noticeable fraction of white South Africans had clearly a touch of the tar brush themselves, especially the johnnies with Dutch or Huguenot surnames.
And not just the countryside. We spent a long weekend in Newcastle/Gateshead last year, and hardly saw a dark complexion. Mind you, the same could have been said about Bradford 50 years ago.
It used to be that if you saw a black face in County Durham you knew the pithead showers had broken down.
I remember that, but also remember the first brown faces appearing in the West End of Newcastle at the end of the 70’s.
I once saw a group of muslims in regalia on the bank of Coniston, just up from the ferry pier. They looked for all the world as if they had no idea what to do with themselves, or even why they were there. They didn’t do anything except ignore their surroundings and talk among themselves. Well, the men with the men and the women with the women. You know.
I have always found the anxiety expressed by Muslims in pyjamas and sandals when my dog is off the lead to be amusing. It’s also a useful reminder to them that their brand of Islam is not welcome in this country.
(I originally posted the above comment below the Telegraph article, but it was removed in less than 60 seconds.)
Anybody who hates dogs should be deported immediately.
Britain is dog country.
At least you’re still allowed. When I posted comments deemed to be ‘pro Russian’, MI6 and the CIA had my account spiked in terms of comment capability.
…MI6 and the CIA had my account spiked in terms of comment capability.
What does that even mean, and what exactly is your claim? And how did you know it was MI6 and the CIA, rather than an algorithm screening for mid-wit Putin fanboys?
It means I wasn’t permitted to post comments on any article. Yet anything, even half baked wittering calling for escalation with nuclear weapons, (or indeed comments marking the Russian threat as greater than Islamism) was permitted if it was deemed ‘pro Ukrainian’.
Why are you concerned anyhow – this comment wasn’t directed at you?
Or are you still denying your role in policing ‘pro Putin’ comments over the past few years on any forum you partake in?
So no evidence to support your claim of MI6 and the CIA involvement! You are a fantasist…
We should burn down Defra, and hang everybody who works there.
That gets my vote and every other farmer to boot.
Will blacks and Muslims who visit the countryside be given badges to wear? Badges that say “TOKEN.”
Have these people considered that the enrichers *just do not like the countryside*?
Of course they haven’t – in their view everyone is a blank slates, programmable, and interchangeable economic and cultural units, not people.
Quite. In general the enrichers don’t like the countryside. It’s muddy, noisy, smelly, inconvenient. They have to wear special clothes, or their usual special clothes get dirty or torn, or are inadequate for our inclement weather. The same can be said for many white Brits. Not everyone likes the countryside.
If you see a non-white in the British countryside you’re usually either looking at a coconut (and I don’t mind coconuts) or someone planting a colonial flag.
Maybe we should fight fire with fire and point out that expecting minorities who come here to enrich us al with their glorious diversity to act like English people is colonial imperialism or whatever sociological bollocks they use..?
Lots of touristy countryside around here. You do see Indian-looking people in it, but from what I’ve seen they mostly come for a large family picnic and stay very close to the car park.
You do see ethnic minority people walking further from the car, but they all seem to be well-assimilated middle-class (usually decent sorts, but as Norman says, the sort that Guardian readers would probably dismiss as ‘coconuts’ or ‘Uncle Toms’).
But then pretty much anyone in the countryside more than a quarter of a mile from a car park seems to be either very middle-class or doing some work there.
From the 2009 British comedy horror film Lesbian Vampire Killers, starring James Corden who has publicly called it his biggest career regret. It bombed at the box office, but has one appropriate quote:
Jimmy: Country air. Nothing like it.
Fletch: Smells like normal air with cow shit in it
A phrase in a Spectator podcast summed up this philosophy, “Self hate combined with self importance”. Starmer and Miliband hate this country, us and themselves but believe we need to set an example to the rest of the world to act properly…
Very good. Who said that? The delightful Madeline?
Ah, now I understand:
National Landscapes, a charity mostly funded by Defra, has been busy overseeing the diversity drive.
https://archive.ph/d4ofZ
Arms-length it, bung them a load of money, sit back and watch as they do what you want to, but can’t yourself, and enjoy the plausible deniability.