One of the most important priorities of the British Freedom Party is the protection of the British natural environment.
Britain has become one of the most crowded countries in the world.
As a result of mass immigration house prices are increasing year on year whilst the demand for land to be used for housing developments is gradually eating away our remaining green spaces and countryside. Instead of housing developments being built on Green Field sites, all new housing projects under a British Freedom Party government will be built on Brown Field sites, thereby easing issues such as flooding, private and public transportation infra-structure provision and other problems concerning essential resources such as water supply and sewage treatment.
Almost all this growth in demand for new housing does not come from British families, it comes primarily from the millions of recent immigrants allowed into the country by successive New Labour, Conservative and Liberal Conservative governments.
As a result of immigration into Britain it is estimated that we will require a new city the size of Birmingham to be built every five years, whilst the population will rise to around 90 million people in the country by 2050.
This is insanity.
We are a small island with a finite size, therefore we cannot continue to pretend we have infinite space in our country to build housing in order to provide a solution to our open door policy on immigration.
At the same time as we must close the door on all future immigration, we must begin the process of transforming our nation’s dependence on industrial agriculture and factor farming into a more sustainable and organic form of agriculture.
The over use of antibiotics, pesticides and other factory farming techniques in production in agriculture is destroying our natural environment, polluting the land, causing dangerous levels of antibiotic resistance in animals and the adoption of intensive agricultural production techniques to replace traditional forms of animal husbandry which are not exploitative of the land, livestock and wildlife.
In line with this policy we intend ;
1) To ban all pernicious forms of intensive agriculture and factory farming which cause health and environmental problems for humans, the countryside and livestock.
2) To ensure that the British people can have confidence in the food they consume and that such food products are not contaminated with chemicals that represent a danger to human health and the environment.
3) To fund an expansion in renewable energy projects that are cost effective and based on efficiency, rather than ideologically driven.
4) To create a network of Community Farms that will employ local people to produce agricultural commodities that can be used to supply local Farmers Markets, schools, hospitals, old people’s homes and the unemployed with cheap, fresh, healthy food.
5) To abolish charges on household waste that, in effect, ’tax’ consumers for the goods they have already bought. We will encourage communities to form local recycling units via the creation and funding of Community Environmental Action Groups that offer employment opportunities to local people to undertake such recycling at the community level, so that rather than penalising consumers we create employment opportunities that resolve such issues.
6) To encourage the transportation of freight, goods and products onto the railways and off the road network. As part of this process we will create a new fully integrated rail and tram network specifically designed for the transportation of goods and commodities across the country. This will be a new network designed with new forms of high technology trains and rolling stock that are designed to be fast, low energy and highly efficient. This will increase efficiency, productivity and delivery times for industry and free up space on the existing commuter rail network.
7) To lower the cost of public transport, offering greater choice to the public in relation to affordable transport and offering commuters a modern, efficient and high speed rail network. This will require the renovation of the entire trail network across the country to update it to the most modern forms of rail transportation such as the high speed inter-city rail networks used in nations such as France and Japan.
8) To regard the issue of ‘climate change’ as simply an issue of human over population putting stress on the environment and natural resources. Industrial pollution is itself created by industries seeking to supply people with consumer goods. Industrialisation, resource depletion and pollution in Britain will all be reduced as we scale back the net numbers of people entering and residing within the country. The climate change which we will seek to address is the climate change that is impacting on Britain in relation to the ongoing catastrophic collapse in wildlife, wild birds and habitat loss. Only by ending pressures on the environment due to over crowding can we provide a space for wildlife amongst us. It is our intention to ensure that future generations of British children have access to a natural environment which they can enjoy and with which they can interact..
9) To create a new Environmental Courts system to hear cases involving disputes involving land use, new housing projects, investigations into pollution incidents and to co-ordinate our national environmental and agricultural policy.
10) To create Community Gardens and other green spaces in inner city areas to act as green zones for wildlife to use and also to allow children access to contact with the natural environment. All new housing developments will be required to provide parks and green spaces for children to play in and access for people to undertake sport and recreation. All new housing projects will be based on a more natural approach to living. The era of modernist concrete cages will be replaced by a more organic style of architecture that allows communities to live alongside nature and green spaces.
11) To ban the sale of school playing fields and ensure that all new schools have playing fields, and green areas where children can have access to nature.
12) To reduce imports of agricultural products in order to stimulate British agricultural production using methods such as those underway at the Planet Thanet facility in Kent, where each glasshouse has its own carefully managed ecosystem. The climate is computer monitored, bees are used for pollination, and pests such as aphids and caterpillars are kept down by introducing natural predators rather than using pesticides.
On its 80 acre site the plant grows 1.3 million plants which supply 15 per cent of the UK’s home-grown crop of salad vegetables.
Such technology will be encouraged and thereby allow us to create a national based agricultural production system which means we do not have to rely on foreign imports in the future.
