Godfrey Bloom: What happens when the pressures associated with mass immigration and rapid social change move beyond Britain’s major cities and into its small towns and rural villages?
Godfrey Bloom reflects on life in Howden and the surrounding villages of East Yorkshire — places where neighbours still know one another, familiar faces fill the high street, and a strong sense of community survives.
But he argues that government housing, immigration and asylum policies risk placing enormous pressure on small communities that were never designed to absorb rapid population change.
Drawing on his own experience of rural Yorkshire, as well as examples such as Linton-on-Ouse, he asks whether politicians and civil servants truly understand the social consequences of decisions made far away from the communities affected.
Is Britain gradually losing the local trust, familiarity and social cohesion that once defined much of small-town England?
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