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White-tailed eagle killed in West Sussex with dangerous banned pesticide
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<blockquote data-quote="toquark" data-source="post: 8132240" data-attributes="member: 72428"><p>The changing demographics of the countryside is something which is rarely mentioned but instrumental to how land use policy has evolved. The move by the affluent middle classes to the countryside often after several generations of living in cities has, I believe, driven a lot of what politicians have thrown our way. Today we have wealthy, politically active people who can write a good letter and know which levers to pull in order to get their way living in every village and at the bottom of every field. They often move to an area, promptly capture the parish council, local committees etc then steamroller the "indigenous" rural population's views (or even more maddeningly, claim to represent those views).</p><p></p><p>It probably goes some way to explaining the current direction of travel in the Tory party, long gone are the traditional landowning classes who understood the countryside and its ways to be replaced by essentially urban liberal metropolitan types who have moved from Chiswick to Chipping Norton.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toquark, post: 8132240, member: 72428"] The changing demographics of the countryside is something which is rarely mentioned but instrumental to how land use policy has evolved. The move by the affluent middle classes to the countryside often after several generations of living in cities has, I believe, driven a lot of what politicians have thrown our way. Today we have wealthy, politically active people who can write a good letter and know which levers to pull in order to get their way living in every village and at the bottom of every field. They often move to an area, promptly capture the parish council, local committees etc then steamroller the "indigenous" rural population's views (or even more maddeningly, claim to represent those views). It probably goes some way to explaining the current direction of travel in the Tory party, long gone are the traditional landowning classes who understood the countryside and its ways to be replaced by essentially urban liberal metropolitan types who have moved from Chiswick to Chipping Norton. [/QUOTE]
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