Roddy
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Roddy
@Tymeric
Tired of local Politicians and Councils claiming they're working in the best interests of existing local residents...current Arun housing plan is unsustainable










It's December, which means it's time for an MHN annual tradition: Our yearly hate-watch of the 1965 epic 'The Battle of the Bulge.'




Pulborough Heath, near Billingsurst in Sussex … what’s left of Brinsbury, West Sussex College of Agriculture being carved up and sold off. Although minds are focused currently on last week’s damning Budget and its open assault on farming, Labour has a good deal of previous form on this. Blair’s New Labour aimed to destroy the very basis by which the culture, community and human capital of the countryside was renewed and maintained from generation to generation by purposely undermining its specialist education and training facilities. Land Based Colleges (LBCs) were once world class centres of excellence all of which identified very purposely with their local areas and communities. Indeed, as identifiably unique as the rural-County areas they were set up to serve. New Labour set in motion the assiduous rot aimed at diminishing and finishing these once proud institutions and the Conservatives chose to ignore it. The progressive Left excels in the dark arts of identity assassination - Colleges were encouraged or forced to drop the word ‘Agriculture’ from their names; modernity considered this a tainted and backward term. Today the precious and irreplaceable assets of LBCs are sold to the highest bidder - often to developers, hungry for easy gain, emboldened by this Labour government’s desire to concrete over the countryside. Only the #SDP has recognised the critical importance of LBCs to a vibrant, confident working countryside. It is stated SDP policy to reinstate and reinvigorate LBCs to their former status: regionally pre-eminent and critical to the countryside as local rural business development hubs. Meanwhile, the damage and the sell offs continue … @SDPhq @NFUtweets @FarmingUK @NoFarmsNoFood @1GarethWynJones @timfarron @RupertLowe10 @_RobbieMoore @TrooperSnooks @sussexfarming @GrahamDenny9



















