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Worst polling governments at this point post-election:Thatcher 1979 – 40%Blair 2005 – 39%Cameron 2015 – 38%*Starmer 2024 – 30%*Worst polling opposition parties:Hague 2001 – 30%Major 1997 – 28%Foot 1983 – 26%*Sunak 2024 – 26%* https://t.co/DV8dAcysZw pic.twitter.com/QaMGGMPxq3
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This suggests that there is more life left in two party politics than I have previously supposed.
I'd make it so any Hongkonger without a criminal record can come here on the strength of their ID card and get citizenship after a year and not five.
Treat it as the single biggest problem facing the country, and get all of the red tape that stops it happening out of the way. Yes that includes a fair bit of planning law, and all the new construction standards aimed at energy efficiency which add a lot of costs for marginal gains (FU, Ed Miliband!). Get factories set up to build prefab houses, and have them turn out thousands per week.
But I don’t see any of the lawyers and managerial types in government or the senior CS having any idea of just how far out of the box they need to think.
Discuss.
My own solution would be designate hundreds of thousands of plots for self-build and sell them to individuals. 60% of new houses in France and Germany and 80% in Austria are self-built. People who have their own houses built have a strong incentive to build quality, decent looking homes that they want to live in, unlike speculative, oligopolistic builders whose incentive is to build whatever shoddy crap will sell quickly.
We can learn the lessons of the crap ‘60s tower blocks, we know that there’s now better ways to build communities with houses to own, houses to rent, and social housing all alongside each other to avoid creating slums.
Agree completely that the solution involves pretty much sidelining the existing large builders unless they are going to play ball. Fast track visas for trades if the new builders can’t get enough staff. Also need to work with banks on both self-build and prefab housing, they both need to be easily mortgageable.
Or was that just the last thread ?
This should have been in England, a full house of Lord's or Headingley would have seen a 10 minute standing ovation instead of few hundred.
How many did you have in mind ?
Also with new build apparently the council, in some cases, doesn't adopt all the land so people end up with ground rent for shared areas. My manager bought new build in Blyth about 6 years ago. He had to pay £140 a year now it is £180 a year for people to come and mow a shared grassy area once in a blue moon.
Crazy.
I really wish sports event organisers, of any sport, would hand out tickets to local amateur clubs and schools if they’re not going to fill the seats. The marginal cost of doing it is almost nothing, and the Multan cricket ground can hold 35,000 spectators. I’d be surprised if there’s 3,500 there today to witness Root’s achievement.
If you are of limited income you are going to focus spending your money on T20s and ODIs.
There are two main types of private or unadopted road: those on new developments such as housing estates and those which, usually by historic accident, have existed for a long time, often since the nineteenth century. A Department of Transport survey in 1972 found that there were then approximately 40,000 unadopted roads in England and Wales, making up some 4,000 miles of road. No later survey has been undertaken but the figure is thought not to have changed much. The Labour Government estimated in 2009 that it would cost £3 billion to make up these roads to an adoptable standard.
The law on the maintenance and adoption of private roads in England and Wales is highly complex. It is largely contained in Part XI of the Highways Act 1980. Briefly, a private or unadopted road is by definition a highway not maintainable at public expense. The local highway authority is therefore under no obligation to pay for its maintenance. Responsibility for the cost of maintaining a private road rests with the frontagers (the owners of properties which front onto such roads).
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn00402/
Around here at least, a bigger problem is the top surfacing not being put on roads long after houses are occupied, meaning pavements and kerbs are trickier to negotiate with prams or wheelchairs. Though again, that varies, and when the developers do get around to it, they generally do it properly.
All of Ukraine's domestic production should be focused on winning the war against Russia. It's nuts that a lack of support from other democracies would lead them to this sort of step.
Having a July election followed by a long summer break then a month off for conferences means that little has really happened apart from a few photo-opportunities with foreign leaders. It's only now we are really starting to see what a Starmer government will be like.
Starmer's plan for GE 2029 looks to be on delivery, very much the "are you better off now than 4 years ago?" approach. It might work, if Labour does deliver on waiting lists, housing, immigration control, criminal justice etc.
To look at the counterfactual: if Sunak had held out for an October election rather than gone in July, would we now be looking at a very different election result? I think not. The drop in the popularity of Labour is down to being in government but not yet doing anything positive.
The God that is working class hero Alexander Johnson, currently engaged in a gaslighting book launch tour around his fiefdom stated after Brexit that any shortfall in workers could be offset by "our friends from the Indian Subcontinent". Can't imagine the RedWall would have a problem with Mr Johnson's wise words.
It's also about scaling up their drone industry - and NATO countries would certainly benefit from Ukrainian drone expertise. Depends on the details, of course, but this could easily be a win/win policy.
(But I agree entirely about the extent of western support.)
If we need to build a million houses a year, then we need to find people to do that, which means more training programmes and temporary immigration to fill the hole, same as in the health service.
My suburb of South Mamchester is apparently target #1 for Hong Kong immigrants.
Which is something of a challenge for local schools: my youngest's primary school has gone from 5% non-white to 40% non-white in the last five years (not just Hong Kongers; a lot of Indians and others too).
It's testament to the integratability of Hong Kongers that this has been managed almost without incident.
There really is no slack at all in schools around here, mind. No element of choice - you get what you're given.
It isn't me who opposes inward immigration, it is your parties.
An “HS2-light” railway line between Birmingham and Manchester would be built under plans being considered by ministers.
In a rethink of Rishi Sunak’s decision to entirely scrap the high-speed line beyond Birmingham, senior government figures are looking at a proposal which they believe can be delivered much more cheaply than the original scheme.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/e0b784f0-fb04-4c5f-9814-4144b1bd5e02?shareToken=5dfa43fbd1a2978d8859809f8305a17f
Better politics than leaving a blank space for opponents to fill, and another bit of accepting reality.
Did you have any trouble getting finance? Some people say that's an issue with self-build in the UK. And do you have planning permission already or are you sorting that out?
Of course it's also possible that it turns out to be worse.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/study-fastest-way-to-get-revenge-porn-off-x-is-a-dmca-takedown/
The GOP led state legislature are only allowing one early voting location per county regardless of population. So Franklin county population 1.4 million and a more rural location with around 12,000 population get the same .
The GOP want to reduce the chances of early voting and want more restrictions on mail in ballots so they can force more urban voters to be waiting hours on election day.
Hoping that they’ll give up and go home.
* amusingly they split it into 4 chunks, 3 of the 4 being after the release, to make sure he actually delivered it.
Not by much AIUI - unless you go sub 100MPH.
How on earth do you insure your property if you live there?
I am not sure I am ready (or ever will be) for the Klopp and Max Verstappen Red Bull crossover event.
No stops between London and Brum means no benefit to the towns between on the HS2, if there were intermediate stations then local support would have been more likely.
https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/09/41082452/hurricane-helene-exposes-vulnerability-of-floridas-home-insurance-market
They’re expecting around $10bn of payouts on this storm, to add to $6bn from the last one only a couple of weeks back.
https://x.com/EdwardGLuce/status/1843643186746712271
How many times - other than his recent meeting - has he spoken to Zelensky, for example ?
The Big Bang Theory fans will understand.
Apparently he also gets £1 million a year from the Mail and those in the know think it was really for the extracts. So the publishers, Harper Collins, which is News Corp, normally get some of the advance back by selling the rights to a News Corp publication, but in this case they haven't even done that.
Boris has basically made £3 million big ones.
They’re taking it really seriously. Storm is around 18 hours away now.
https://x.com/govrondesantis/status/1843758093974302868
Today, I visited a logistics staging area at the Florida Horse Park in Ocala, one of our many staging sites just outside Hurricane Milton’s projected path. Florida and our partners have spent the past few days deploying personnel and equipment to strategically located sites like this.
Nearly 600 ambulances and more than 30 paratransits are in operation. They will be nearby and ready to save lives as soon as the hurricane passes. The National Guard is deploying aerial, water, and ground search and rescue teams for the largest National Guard search and rescue mobilization in Florida history.
Florida will have 43,000 linemen staged from all over the country, and they’ll be ready to restore power when it’s safe to do so.
Now is the time to execute your plan and follow any evacuation orders from your local officials. Your home can be rebuilt, your possessions can be replaced, but we cannot replace a life lost to the storm.
We are grateful for everyone who is stepping up to help, and we will get through this together.
A series of documents were produced years ago that gave how the then-planned HS2 services would impact many existing routes and services. The vast majority of places saw overall benefit.
There is, though, a federal government program.
(Note just about every Florida Republican in Congress regularly votes against FEMA and similar funding.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Program
“You know, we’re now in a situation where I mean you know most of Sky News was at these events in these same boxes as well to be completely fair.”
Burley hit back: “Who was there? I paid for my tickets. Don’t do that, no.” Nandy claimed Keir Starmer had paid for his too. A few weeks late, mind…
Nandy couldn’t name any other Sky personnel who went along for free when asked and ended with: “People can judge for themselves.“
https://order-order.com/2024/10/09/nandy-caught-out-in-labour-swiftie-freebie-row/
Who is doing PR for the Labour party. They are absolutely shit. Lets say Sky were on a freebie there, a) its not the same as politicians and b) you want to piss the media off this early in parliament by throwing shit and missing?
Longer So they won’t move.
There’s almost no construction method that can keep a whole house up in 180mph winds, at least not without exorbitant cost, so you might as well make them out of your traditional American timber construction and rebuild after the storm.
https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/risk-management/building-science/safe-rooms
As noted above, there’s no ‘shelter in place’ order for this storm, it’s a full evacuation.
At least that’s what I told my wife.
Good morning, everyone.
Fine for films and sport, but what happens when you watch the news? I don't think I could have dealt with Boris Johnson or Liz Truss at that size in my living room
*Or at least, let's move to feet and inches. I know I'm 184cm tall which is just over 6ft, but for inches I'd have to do the maths - no one when asked how tall they are says 72 inches!
A most sobering message.
Harry brook taking over where Duckett left off though, already swinging boundaries.
4K OLED HDR at 120 refresh rate.
It’s like the match is taking place in your living room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMt2aQCrbRE