Country people are white and racist.

There was an article in Mail also about this report and the charities that have evidently signed up to it.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13058991/Britains-countryside-racist-colonial-white-space-people-colour-framed-place-wildlife-charities-say.html

I wonder where these 'hate studies' experts are roosting and who is financing them. Time to do a little digging.

That didn't take long. It turns out to be the 'Rural Racism Research Team' in the 'Centre for Hate Studies' at the University of Leicester.

The Centre employs an impressive number of credentialled academics and is funded by, amongst others, the taxpayer-funded quango the Economic and Social Research Council, the EHRC, Amnesty International UK and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire. The work of the Rural Racism team is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a taxpayer-subsidised charitable trust.

I have just come back from my bi annual eye test in my small local country market town, the charming gentleman who conducted the eye test was a Sikh complete with turban, we both agreed how lovely the area was and how lucky we were to live in such a nice place.
So I think the report is simply a race baiting provocative piece of rubbish dreamt up by people who choose to do this nonsense instead of working for a living.

In a statement, the CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, Richard Benwell, said: “Nature should be for everyone to enjoy and to benefit from. Sadly however, the evidence shows that people of colour in the UK are more likely to live in areas with less green space and that are more heavily polluted, and at the same time are significantly less likely to visit natural spaces.This bloke Benwell ( a lib dem incidentally,) wants to come into the country side himself, he might just learn what is important in life. 

If a single anecdote citing one person can "prove" that such a report is "rubbish", then how about a few showing an opposite view..

An Asian rambling group from Derby, a few years ago. The Late Mrs P (a keen walker) was showing them a local route. A tea room in Cromford turned them away, with the excuse that "they didn't have room for that number" (even with a large, empty, outdoor seating area). Immediately following this exchange, another large group of walkers were waved in.

The local kerfuffle of a Nottingham youth charity buying an empty building near Wirksworth to convert into an Outward Bound base. Upon noticing that the planning application included a (multifaith) "prayer room", word got around on social media that it was actually going to be a mosque. Things got quite heated before the idiots were finally put back in their box.

The young woman in my (rural market) town disowned by her parents for having a Black boyfriend. (Now married. Children. So far as I know, still estranged.)

The occasional, thankfully rare, occurrences of racism (anonymous letters through the door, etc) directed toward the family of Syrian refugees hosted by our community's "Refugee Welcome" project.

These are just random anecdotes. It would be daft to try and claim them as providing "evidence" that the countryside is some kind of a hotbed of racism (the Walking Group continue to be welcomed pretty much everywhere, the Outward Bound base is - I assume - still thriving, and our refugee family are happily building a life here..), just as an anecdotal conversation with one person can hardly be expected to stand as a categorical debunking of a report.

Both of those "points" came up on social media, alongside many other specious arguments.

The "prayer room" proved, of course, to be just that - a quiet meeting room that could be used for that purpose, if wished. Given that the place (last time I heard, which must have been during Lockdown) is as likely to be used by scouts, church groups, walking clubs and all kinds of youth clubs, etc, as by the (Asian) group who run it, it's never been an issue, nor is it ever likely to be. (On another note, a room in our town - borrowed from the British Legion - is used on Fridays for Muslim worship (no idea how many go. I'd be surprised if numbers went beyond 20). There has never been a "call to prayer". I think people tend to use mobile phones as a reminder, rather than some guy yelling from a big tower.

(In France, my flat was directly below a room used for worship by a Sufi group. They made a bit of a racket, but nothing cranking up the volume couldn't deal with. About two hundred metres from my window was a church, where the (automated) bells rang several times a day. As an atheist, I see no difference, and can well do without either, but it all comes pretty low on my scale of concern..)

I love steam rallies and agricultural shows. I feel instantly at ease. There is just something about it i like. I can't quite put my finger on what it might be.

I dont know dog burger. Im still in shock that sandy pine , a so called  ethnic scotsman , went to a fucking morris dance. 

The shame is too much .