To:
My prospective members of
parliament |
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I
would like answers to the
following questions from the
candidates vying for my vote
at the coming general
election. 1)
Globally, current levels of
motorisation and air travel
are already placing a
non-sustainable drain and
strain on our planet’s
limited natural resources and
finite carrying capacity, yet
both are set not to just
double, but to increase
many-fold as the less well-off become more
and more affluent and the
developing world strives to
emulate Western lifestyles. Do
you recognise this as an
utterly untenable situation,
which no amount of
environmental legislation or
technology can cope with, and which
threatens not just the
prosperity, but the very
survival of our children and
coming generations? If so,
what do you propose we do
about it? Should we, for
example, be building or
expanding more roads and
airports? 2) Do you think that Britain's current population (about 59 million) is too large, too small, or just about right? Should the government be doing anything to encourage a reduction/increase in Britain's population? If so, what? 3)
In view of the many millions of people
in the world’s “less
developed” countries who - given half the chance
and
quite understandably -
want to come and settle in
Britain (especially since so
many already have established communities
here),
what is your attitude towards
immigration? In
a number of British cities (as
already the case in some London
boroughs) the immigrant
population will soon outnumber
that of native Britons. As a
native Briton and ethnic (indigenous)
European myself (i.e. someone
whose ancestors have lived
here since long before the
beginnings of recorded
history), I now sometimes find
myself feeling like a
foreigner in my own country. I
- and most of the people I know (including
some Black and Asian people) -
feel very unhappy about this
(but wouldn't dream of voting
for the BNP).
Do you have any understanding and
sympathy for the way we
feel, or do you think that we
are being “racist” (and
perhaps should be voting for
the BNP)? I could ask many more questions, of course, but for me these are the most general and essential. I hope to receive some very clear answers. Otherwise I shan't know who to vote for - in which case, I probably won't bother. Roger
Hicks |
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