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Over the years Marf’s cartoons have enriched the site but unfortunately the only way we’ve been able to help her financially is though encouraging people to buy originals or prints of her work and allocating part of the proceeds when we’ve had a PB appeal.
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Edit: is Marf calling Ed Miliband a horse? If so, perhaps time to roll out the long-deceased 'Mr Ed' joke?
Oh and first
Edit - or maybe not first
Donated anyway.
Sooooo.......Nothing like Ed then.
"The Green Belt will be safe for another five years under a Conservative Government, David Cameron will pledge next week.
The Prime Minister and Tory leader will say that the protected greenfield land around towns and cities will not get any smaller in its manifesto next week."
I'm sure this will have been extensively poll tested but I can't help feeling it's increasingly questionable electorally. They risk being painted as protecting the interests of the 'have houses' against the young.
Can't win really can he....?
'Who will be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when the first government is formed after the next UK general election. This market will be settled on the formation of the first ministry (government) after assent is given by the reigning monarch after the next UK general election.'
Is it possible we could proceed straight to a second election without any government being formed?
Central planning of land use seems to be the last remaining remnant of post-war socialism that the right can't abandon. It's even more of a religion than the NHS.
It's an interesting read about the history of the greenbelt, and it's various supporters
Where do they want them? The answer is that many want them outside of London. So build in areas such as ex MOD land, which are usually rural spacious and raises cash for the Govt. Is it really green belt? Some is but a lot is under utilised semi brown land sites.
Again this green belt policy and the train one, I can't see how that win any votes in key marginals like in the midlands.
I love construction. I've worked in it, and nearly went into civil engineering as a career. We should have more construction.
Yet I cannot see how altering green belt policy will be in any way positive, and would only be a sticking-plaster over the real problems that bedevil housing policy, as discussed on here passim.
I live in a new, modern housing development that is still under construction. The problems that we have here - transport, jobs, shops, build quality etc - will be the same in every new out-of-town development.
We need to build wiser, not build more of the same.
(Oh, and usual, I will add that we need to build communities, not homes).
Building a retirement village can only work on a small scale, and as part of a larger community, otherwise it becomes a parking lot for the STBD".
*(soon to be dead)
There are enough places to develop to house our population on both green and brown land if it's done right. All our politicans seem to want to offer is cannibalisation of the existing housing stock and ludicrously priced accommodation.
As for what is cameron doing for those outside his comfort zone - precious little.
We also need to learn the mistakes made when developing planned communities in the past.
Section 106 need tightening up, to avoid developers taking the p*ss. As one example, I believe there is a road that a developer had to build that would act as a bypass for a village. The road had to be completed with the development. So the developers have built a few less houses than they planned, and have only built the part of the road to serve the development. They are now saying they will complete the road if they get permission for more houses.
Cunning barstewards. ;-)
"Calculated attack (Beeb)
Posted at 12:26
Mr Richards adds he defence secretary's attack on the Labour leader wasn't "a clumsy, casual intervention" but a deliberate act.
He says this is largely because the one thing most pollsters say people know about Mr Miliband is that he beat his brother to the leadership of the Labour party."
Probably true, but almost all of them don't see it as a heinous crime.....
especially the younger members of a family.
Likewise if Cameron's so concerned about our green and pleasant land why's he subsidising sodding great wind turbines across some of our best scenery.
The policy is a lemon. he shouldn't be saying no development but articulating how a sympathetic housing policy can be implemented in established communities.
Respect...
There are some comedy moments in the video. The guy getting his wheelie bin stuck and having to get 2 other guys to come and help him....While one of the gang has the ability to disable alarms and break into a vault, 3 of them can't work out why a wheelie bin is stuck.
Also, who goes to do a massive heist where you are going to be drilling through thick concrete walls in fancy shoes...gotta look good on the cctv.
And the guy very carefully and neatly parking his moped and nearly forgetting to put his disguise on.
I want to know what the Mirror haven't shown us. I am presuming there is a lot more.
I think you may be confusing green belt with all rural land - the vast majority of rural land is outside the green belt and I'm guessing will not be affected by this policy.
And I agree about the wind turbines.
(*) It's farcical that it's called a village; but people like it that way.
feckall to lose really.......except an entire country and history.
Nag antifrank he got all the benefits and lurv and still isn't voting Cameron.
Is there any ELBOW room ? Even a partly-formed ELBOW .
On campaign trail today with my crack team...
The Conservatives should keep on repeating how Ed stabbed his brother in the back !
There is moreover still lots of land and older buildings which is nor being used and where more housing would fit easily within the exisiting infrastructure. I drive trhough S Birmingham most days on the way to work and there are loads of old factory and retail buildings which could be converted to sensible living accommodation.
He also also happens to be one of the 103 businessmen who signed the letter to the Telegraph urging people to vote Tory. Prudential has a proud and honourable heritage as one of the UK's most prominent insurance companies.
Doesn't this touting for votes on behalf of Cameron's political party make both of them seem rather tawdry?
Tories are basically Luddites !
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2015/04/10/yes-the-tories-were-in-the-gutter-yesterday-but-thats-where-elections-are-won
"We intend to invest £8 billion on the NHS" - party 1
"How do you intend to fund it?" - party 2
Who would party-1 and party-2 have been?
it's a funny world.
You are probably right, unfortunately almost all of the voters who bother with nonsense like that, vote Tory already.
There is no reason for housing estates of new builds to look the same. I could refer you to my own village, where they had the cunning plan of having four developers. Each had their own areas of land, but these were interspersed in smallish blocks. Hence faux-wooden barn conversions intermingle with town houses, to (in my opinion) reasonable effect. Looking out my window, I can see several different styles of houses in a pleasant and relatively traffic-free mall where children can play safely as there are ninety-degree bends at either end.
It works. Even better, as the houses are made of differing materials and age at slightly different rates, they do not necessarily look like they were built at the same time. Differing roof lines and pitches, even when the houses are in a line, also have a positive effect.
Agree about redevelopment of existing structures where possible. But again, it needs to be done right (although there are companies with plenty of experience of doing it right).
Oh, and SuDS is a must on any new development. ;-)
Non dom ?
Good point! Perhaps Ed should operate his non dom policy retrospectively and collect back taxes to say 2005. That should get the public excited.
On Any Questions when Caroline Lucas was asked whether she was worried the non dom policy might not increase the tax take she said she didn't care. "if non doms want to leave because they have to pay tax like the rest of us then I'll personally drive them to the airport".
THAT got the biggest cheer of the day.
Marf, some independent/self-published authors are going down crowd-funding as a route. Not sure it works as well for writers as, for example, game development (which is not without its pitfalls).
It is interesting to see how such things (and in music as well, with the likes of ViolinTay and Malukah) will develop. At the moment, my vague plan is to see how Sir Edric goes being traditionally published, and keep my 'serious' fantasy self-published, for now.
Cartoons may be quite a good area for this, because it's easy to see quite quickly if you like a certain style.
At which point should a sibling defer to their older brother?
Obviously you wouldn't expect them to not try at an exam in case they got higher marks?
"Best sell your shares on ethical grounds."
I think I will!
Perhaps they don't Like Andy Murray because he doesn't let Jamie win?
Modern architecture always seems to struggle in the UK. Patly it's the attachment to older designs and partly it's the weather. But if we nominated one of the new towns as more of a showpiece for modernism, it could just work.
Why would the govt give permission to test drill for oil in Surrey if it did not want to extract oil in Surrey? One minute the nimbys are out complaining that Cameron wants to build a railway through the countryside but according to you Cameron will struggke to give permission to drill for oil.
According to the Telegraph the manifs=esto will say...
“We will ensure that local people have more control over planning and protect the Green Belt. We will encourage more neighbourhood planning and protect the Green Belt.
“Neighbourhood planning gives more power to local people, allowing them to play a much stronger role in shaping their areas.”
The manifesto will highlight the 1,400 communities, representing six million people, have now applied to draw up the plans to set out where development can take place. It will say: “We will encourage more communities to draw up such plans.”
I find it hard to see what is wrong with this.
I'll see she gets the message.
"The manifesto will highlight the 1,400 communities"
Local referendum or council decision?
Might not be entirely win win if it is the latter?
Just a co-incidence I suppose.
if the Tories HAVE allowed themselves £20 billion to play with during the election campaign, then it seems a clever political manoeuvre as they can allocate it where it will do them most good. (Not necessarily the country of course).
However they are going to have to explain it in words of 1 syllable or less so that the populace who ARE worried about the deficit can be assured. (Most Labour supporters won't care one way or the other of course - to them money comes from heaven.)
I suspect Ed will happily let the South Downs be ripped up.
For goodness sake, why it the Tory campaign so boring?! Where are the radical policies that voters can get behind ? Where are the modern equivalents such as right to buy share ownership.
They deserve to lose if they can't give people real reasons to vote FOR them instead of against Ed.
I'd give Cambourne 8 or 8.5 out of town for the development. It can be improved, but sadly the new developments being planned (e.g. Northstowe) are going to be worse. That's why I've got a bee in my bonnet about this: we need to build better developments, not worse.
It might have escaped him that just as there are an awful lot of dogs, and an awful lot of people who don't like the Tory Party, most of whom aren't SNP members and many of whom aren't SNP voters. Vandaism is pointess and criminal, but I remember the supposed vandalism blaned on Yessers of an Edinburgh Labour pol's office, when any local would instantly recognise the spray painted slogans as the local youth gang (young toi or whatever they call themselves nowadays).
I guess - Mr Tyndall should know more.
As an example:
https://www.scambs.gov.uk/localplan
It'd be nice to know how this new scheme changes this (if I've understood it correctly).
As for DC: I don't believe a word he says about green belts or anything else.
Fingers crossed the Tories will keep up their present head of steam and Ed will stay cool.