SUELLA Braverman today blasted “dangerous” lefties for calling the countryside “racist” and insisted white people shouldn’t be made to feel guilty about their background.
The ex-Home Secretary hit out at a report by charity body Wildlife and Countryside Link, which claimed Britain’s rolling hills, forests and fields are a “white space” shaped by “colonial legacies“.
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Writing in The Telegraph, Ms Braverman said: “Just because there are more white people than non-white people somewhere does not make it racist.
“The UK is a majority white country, so of course there will be many areas where there is very little, and sometimes no, ethnic minority participation. I do not see a problem.
“Ethnic minority people tend to live in urban areas. Does that make Wembley, where I come from and which is now a majority non-white area, racist because there are fewer white people who live there? Of course not.”
Ms Braverman posted a pic of herself camping with her family, who are of Indian heritage, and said that in decades of countryside holidays they never experienced racism.
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WCL, which represents 80 organisations including the National Trust, was responding to a call for evidence from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Race and Community.
The group, chaired by Labour MP Clive Lewis, is investigating supposed connections between climate change and racism.
WCL sparked fury with its submission, which claimed “racist colonial legacies continue to frame nature in the UK as a ‘white space’ and people of colour as ‘out of place’”.
The report said: “Cultural barriers reflect that in the UK, it is white British cultural values that have been embedded into the design and management of green spaces and into society’s expectations of how people should engage with them.
“The UK’s role in the European colonial project has also driven the current climate and nature crises.”
Tim Bonner, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, blasted the report as “nonsense”.
He said: “It’s ridiculous to say that people in the countryside are racist and this is just attention seeking nonsense.
“Rural people are happy to go out of their way to make people from rural minorities who don’t have experience of the countryside welcome.”
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