There can be no doubt that few things are more essential to our everyday lives than food.

Unfortunately not enough people are asking themselves whether they can trust the food they eat. The politicians and food industry spokesmen tell us that the chemicals, growth hormones, additives and antibiotics the food industry insists on adulterating our food with is both “essential” and “good for us”! In addition, those who campaign for wholesome food and especially against GM products, are ridiculed as being “misinformed” or “backward looking”!

The British National Party believes the road ahead is for a return to unadulterated organic food, food we can trust. In particular we want a GM-free Britain and a return to proven organic production methods as far as is practically posible. During the last decade the quantity of organic food produced in Europe has gone up five fold, so clearly there is a demand for real food in this country of ours. Unfortunately the Government has done little to encourage British producers to expand organic production �“ this despite our country having one of the largest markets for organic produce in the Western World. It is a sad fact that less than half of the organic food we eat is actually homegrown. The British National Party will promote real food over the processed and adulterated variety, and encourage food producers to meet the resulting growing demand for real food, at an affordable price to the consumer.

Furthermore, British Nationalists advocate proper and prominent labelling on food packaging. We believe the consumer has a right to know what they are being sold, so that they are better equipped to decide for themselves whether they want to buy it.

In addition, as part of our drive for a return to real food, British Nationalists advocate a major expansion in the provision of the traditional allotment �“ this being a facility that has served both families and communities well for many decades.

British Nationalists also believe that the British public, by and large, care - as we do - about the treatment of animals. We believe that farm animals have a right not to suffer, and our stand against intensive factory production lines promotes respect and compassion in farming. Furthermore, British Nationalists, unlike the so-called “Green” Party, are opposed to the most prolific form of animal cruelty practised in Britain today �“ that of the cruel and barbaric slow-death ritual slaughter of millions of our farm animals every year - for no other reason than to appease the theological dogma of certain religious groups.

The British National Party believes in local family owned shops selling the wholesome produce of local family owned farms and allotments, at affordable prices, to local people.

Hence our stance that as far as is possible food should be grown locally, for sale in local shops and markets, to local people. We see little value in chemically grown produce that has been transported thousands of polluting miles to reach the consumer - it’s time to rediscover real food and to refocus our farming industry into fulfilling that need.

Without a doubt the biggest single controllable threat to our environment is that of overpopulation. Indeed England is one of the most crowded places on the face of the earth and getting more crowded by the day. Fuelling overpopulation, as the Government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) will verify, is immigration. If it were not for half a century’s worth of immigration, then our population would be considerably smaller than it is today. Yet as overcrowded as we already are on this tiny island, things are going to get even tighter �“ much tighter in fact!

According to the experts, the Government �“ with the backing of the Tory opposition - plans to allow around another six million migrants into Britain over the next twenty years �“ which is why, of course, Labour needs the three million new homes it is currently attempting to force local authorities to grant planning permission for across the country!

This planned boost to overpopulation, being despite the detrimental affect immigration is already having on housing, employment, education, heath services, social services and law enforcement �“ and lets not even start on exasperating the demand for more water provision, energy generation, sewerage treatment and rubbish disposal!

So it comes as something of a surprise to learn that “mainstream”, so-called, “environmentalists” aren’t clamouring for a halt to immigration to safeguard what remains of our countryside and environment! You will see them protesting about the symptoms �“ a housing development on green field sites �“ but you will never see them protesting about the cause �“ far less actually campaigning for an end to this �“ the greatest controllable threat imaginable to our environment.

The problem is, you see, that “mainstream” environmentalists are caught on the horns of a dilemma. On the one horn they know immigration is the driving motor behind the overpopulation that is wrecking our countryside and reducing the quality of life for everyone. But on the other horn they are conditioned to believing that opposition to immigration is “racist” and should they oppose it, then they will be �“ racists! Far safer then to enter a self imposed state of denial and engage in a limitation exercise campaigning against the symptoms than to be seen as unacceptably politically incorrect by recognising and addressing the real issue!

As an example of what we at Land & People mean, we invite you to visit the web site of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) and there to do a site search using the key word “immigration”. The CPRE remember, is one of the largest and most influential “mainstream” environmentalist groups in the country �“ yet a search of their website produces just 1 (one) find for any article mentioning the word “immigration”! That, we believe, speaks volumes for their credibility as serious environmentalists!

According to the Government and independent academic demographics experts, Britain is about to witness unprecedented population growth, ranging from five to ten million, over the next twenty-five years.

With the birth rate of indigenous Britons just about at “replacement” level at best, it is clear that almost all this future growth will be down to either immigration or births within migrant communities already established here. We would refer sceptics to both the government’s Office of National Statistics (OS) site or to Migration Watch UK’s highly informative site, for confirmation.

The impact of population growth is already manifesting itself in many undesirable ways. Quite apart from the growing pressure on homes, education, health services, employment, social welfare, water availability, policing, energy demand, traffic congestion and landfill sourcing, is environmental destruction to provide the development land needed for the homes required to facilitate further immigration.

For some years now the availability of homes, for either purchase or rental, has been “drying up” �“ with demand increasingly exceeding supply. As a consequence both rents and mortgages have been pushed beyond the reach of many. This, in particular, has affected our young couples - resulting in many having to live at home with mum and dad and put off having a family of their own. The latter, of course, contributing to the stagnation in the indigenous birth rate.

Yet despite the obvious fact that the millions of migrants who have arrived in Britain over recent decades have had a massive negative impact on affordable home availability, a succession of governments have failed to take the obvious step �“ halting immigration �“ to prevent matters from getting even worse.

Instead of halting immigration the Labour regime has announced that it wants to build over two million new homes in Britain over the next twenty years �“ whilst, at the same time, allowing in anywhere between five to ten million more migrants! Clearly Labour’s mammoth house building programme has only one objective �“ providing the homes needed to facilitative their nation-wrecking immigration programme!

But all these homes have to be built somewhere. And although a significant proportion of them will be built on brown field sites in urban areas, the fact remains that the bulk of them will have to go on green field sites �“ resulting in the destruction of tens of thousands of acres of pristine countryside and green belt!

Only this week it was reported, in the regional media, that the Labour regime is to “pressurise” local authorities in the West Midlands into building almost 500,000 new homes in that region between now and 2028. This is partly in response to a regional baby-boom fuelled largely by births within the huge migrant communities already established in that region, but mainly to provide homes for the waves of migrants expected to settle there over the next two decades!

But why, the BNP asks, do we need to sacrifice our precious countryside to facilitate immigration that is neither wanted nor needed? We should slam the immigration door firmly shut and build homes only for our own people on brown field sites. In other words - follow through on the BNP’s “Sons & Daughters” home building programme. That way not only do we preserve our irreplaceable countryside from unnecessary destruction, provide affordable homes for our own people but also protect the quality of life of all our people from the dire environmental consequences of engineered gross overpopulation.

Yet - as with homes, education, health services, employment, social welfare, water availability, policing, energy demand, traffic congestion and landfill sourcing - the destruction of our countryside is an issue that arises directly out of overpopulation. And overpopulation is, without a shadow of a doubt, fuelled almost entirely by immigration!

Is this why the Green Party, for instance, refuses to recognise immigration as the greatest threat to this country’s habitats, our countryside and our quality of life? Is this why they campaign against the symptoms, rather than the predominant cause of these critical environmental threats?

So, once again we ask: Immigration - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!