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  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,371

    AFAIK Sweden's rules were guidance and encouragement rather than police enforcement.

    If so, then yes I totally agree, give guidance but then let people choose.
    Would you say that, when people are driving, we should give guidance on what speed to drive at, but then let people choose?
  • Would you say that, when people are driving, we should give guidance on what speed to drive at, but then let people choose?
    No, I'm a liberal not an anarchist.

    But I don't view driving 100mph outside a school as the same as sending a child to school.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,534

    ..

    Yet on the whole we woke libtards don’t tend to drive into groups of righties to murder them, storm the seat of government or protest with mock gallows. Guess all that is still our fault though.
    Many of you weren't complaining much about the IRA or Hamas blowing up women and children and further back about Stalin and Pol Pot either.

  • glwglw Posts: 10,306

    Lol, being promised a gong is now a bad thing.


    She's Britain's MTG, too stupid to understand how stupid she is.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,534

    Oh indeed, but the removal of the whip happened in the Autumn when he voted against the three line whip called as a confidence motion.

    It did not happen due to the silly association vote six months earlier to which HYUFD is referring.
    His Association voted to no confidence him, the only way in which that was not a deselection was that it would not be officially confirmed until the Beaconsfield Association selection meeting when it would have selected another general election candidate for Beaconsfield rather than Grieve
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,236

    You and I are never going to agree but I find the fact that land with planning permission can be worth 600x land without it a pretty significant indicator that planning permission is an impediment. When planning is worth upto 99.8% of the value of the land, then its hardly inconsequential now is it?

    A key measurement to business transparency and opportunities is that businesses can reliably operate and act with delays measured in days or weeks, not years. The planning system can hold up developments for years and the risk of that is enough to keep small businesses out of the market almost altogether leaving the market to an oligopoly who can afford to land bank and abuse the system safe from competition from smaller firms.
    None of your arguments on this can have any traction for as long as only 60% of homes with planning permission are actually being built. And this is not a case of having land in the pipeline or any of those feeble excuses. The number of unbuilt homes with planning permissions has been going up by between 80 and 100 thousand a year for more than a decade.

    Deal with that and then come back and look at planning - 90% of which has nothing to do with 'permission' and is only concerned with the necessery conditions attached to permission.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127
    ..
    HYUFD said:

    Many of you weren't complaining much about the IRA or Hamas blowing up women and children and further back about Stalin and Pol Pot either.

    Fuck me, the debit column in my ledger of responsibility is growing at an exponential rate!
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,342
    edited June 2023
    148grss said:

    If your rules are based on the idea that they can be enforced by norms and morality, rather than power, than the immoral, unscrupulous and powerful have no restraints. You cannot shout fire in a crowded theatre falsely, you cannot libel someone, and if the aim of your speech is the insincere criticism of the necessary functioning parts of the democratic state for self service and aggrandisement, and the functioning of civil society be damned, then year - there should be consequences.

    If you believe in the law, if you believe in the power of parliament, if you believe in the institutions of democracy, then they need to be protected from such charlatans because when they aren't those charlatans run rough shod over them. I think it should be considered obscene that a national paper suggested the Supreme Court was the "Enemy of the People" and that should be sanctionable - certainly more sanctionable than if, say, someone shouted it on the street corner. Again, it is one thing for the average Jo to complain about the actions and motives of politicians - it is another for the ex PM to be judged by his peers and found to be lying to parliament (something that used to be considered a resigning offence) and whipping up a public campaign against the committee who judged thusly calling them fraudsters.

    Free speech is not freedom from consequence. Indeed, without consequences there can be no such thing as freedom of choice - especially if you are the only one who lives consequence free. Johnson has, for far too long, been free from the consequences of his worst excesses and has therefore felt he can commit more of them. Same, in my mind, for the likes of the Daily Mail. People bemoan the dissolving on civility and compromise and talk about polarisation, but what got us here? The constant debasement of the public discourse at the hands of demagogues who have no desire or incentive to tell the truth when they keep being rewarded when all they do is grift.
    Nobody is above and beyond criticism.

    I believe that the Privileges Committee was entirely right to sanction Johnson in the way that it did. But, I also think that MPs and others have the right to criticise that decision.

    No one, other than their constituents, has the right to remove them from public office.

    As LJ Sedley put it "freedom of speech, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to say things that others don't want to hear."
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127
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    RIP Glenda Jackson.

    Bugger, an actual great.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,394
    HYUFD said:

    Hatred of the traditional family, hatred of the nation state, hatred of the royal family, hatred of the West and its history and Christian and Jewish historical culture, hatred of capitalism, hatred of white working class males' views. All from the left
    HYUFD = Deranged!
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,534
    edited June 2023

    RIP Glenda Jackson.

    Pity, a giant as an actress, especially as Elizabeth I, an Oscar winner and committed Labour MP for Hampstead. Dan Hodges' mother too.

    She was 87, so at least she had a good innings
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,432
    edited June 2023
    IanB2 said:

    Rory: I am struggling to find anyone from history as immoral [as Johnson]

    Bit harsh.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,432

    Why are we the only country still stuck on covid recriminations? Does anyone really believe Johnson was the only leader who might not have followed all the rules that applied to everyone else? Could the Elysee withstand the same level of scrutiny?

    How do you know we are?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    HYUFD said:

    Hatred of the traditional family, hatred of the nation state, hatred of the royal family, hatred of the West and its history and Christian and Jewish historical culture, hatred of capitalism, hatred of white working class males' views. All from the left
    hatred of white working class males' views: absolutely right wing thing. Vide Tolpuddle Martyrs.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,651
    HYUFD said:

    Many of you weren't complaining much about the IRA or Hamas blowing up women and children and further back about Stalin and Pol Pot either.

    Too right! Pol Pot fans please explain!

  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,780
    IanB2 said:

    Rory: I am struggling to find anyone from history as immoral [as Johnson]

    Er.. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc etc etc might have something today about that?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,301
    I was one who thought the Committee might suspend for less than 10 days, due to how hard it can be to prove intent rather than idiocy, so it will be very interesting to read through when I can. I mean, I think he lied deliberately, but that is hard to prove.

    But it remains notable and significant I think that Boris's pre report rhetoric goes far beyond claiming process problems and absurd judgement calls by the Committee. That's a standard approach to these types of thing.

    No, that his and allies' rhetoric included focus on being expelled (which he wasn't) on the say so of a few MPs, and how dare that happen, it really comes down to a view that there should be no standards regime at all, because the logic follows how dare a Committee punish any MP for actions or words?

    It is interesting not many are honest that is the point, which is probably why everything else is emphasised hysterically.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    edited June 2023
    kle4 said:

    I was one who thought the Committee might suspend for less than 10 days, due to how hard it can be to prove intent rather than idiocy, so it will be very interesting to read through when I can. I mean, I think he lied deliberately, but that is hard to prove.

    But it remains notable and significant I think that Boris's pre report rhetoric goes far beyond claiming process problems and absurd judgement calls by the Committee. That's a standard approach to these types of thing.

    No, that his and allies' rhetoric included focus on being expelled (which he wasn't) on the say so of a few MPs, and how dare that happen, it really comes down to a view that there should be no standards regime at all, because the logic follows how dare a Committee punish any MP for actions or words?

    It is interesting not many are honest that is the point, which is probably why everything else is emphasised hysterically.

    It's also interesting that [edit] Mr J's assertion precedes the HoC vote - which would in itself make completely otiose and moot that view (whether it is right or wrong).
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,966
    GIN1138 said:

    Er.. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc etc etc might have something today about that?
    Yes, as per my correction above. The field was really British politicians
  • 148grss148grss Posts: 4,155
  • RazedabodeRazedabode Posts: 3,092
    What’s the benefit of some of these Johnson loyalist declaring their undying support for him on Twitter?
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,780
    edited June 2023
    IanB2 said:

    Yes, as per my correction above. The field was really British politicians
    Lloyd George was a bit of an old rascal. Some would say Blair telling lies to justify his illegal war wasn't very moral either...
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,135

    What’s the benefit of some of these Johnson loyalist declaring their undying support for him on Twitter?

    Maybe they really mean it.
  • GhedebravGhedebrav Posts: 3,860

    What’s the benefit of some of these Johnson loyalist declaring their undying support for him on Twitter?

    I guess hoping for crumbs from the Spaffster's table when he finds his next grift. A lot of them are not very bright either.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,780

    What’s the benefit of some of these Johnson loyalist declaring their undying support for him on Twitter?

    They're unhined and going "over the top" with their general...
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,550
    @faisalislam
    NEW

    Former PM Cameron, former Chancellor Osborne, current Chancellor and former Health Secretary Hunt, all called up to give evidence at the Covid Inquiry next week… with one of the themes the impact of “spending commitments” and “resources” and “levels of funding”
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,612
    I make that three times that Bozo has lost a job as a result of lying.

    Law breaker. Liar. "Right Honourable".
  • GhedebravGhedebrav Posts: 3,860

    HYUFD = Deranged!
    I do generally enjoy reading (and occasionally engaging in) HYUFD's debates, but this uncharacteristic rant does come across a bit 'before turning the gun on himself' bonkers.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127
    148grss said:
    Yep.
    I'm getting a bit pissed off with weather presenters burbling on about tomorrow being another fantastic day.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,158
    edited June 2023
    GIN1138 said:

    Lloyd George was a bit of an old rascal. Some would say Blair telling lies to justify his illegal wasn't very moral either...
    Neither Lloyd George nor Blair reached Johnson's level of disregard for the truth.

    Johnson is a sociopath imo, very similar to but perhaps not (allowed to be) as extreme as Trump.

    (Regarding Trump's mental view of the world, I cannot recommend Mary Trump's biog 'Too much and never enough' too highly - it's very good.)
  • 148grss148grss Posts: 4,155
    Sean_F said:

    Nobody is above and beyond criticism.

    I believe that the Privileges Committee was entirely right to sanction Johnson in the way that it did. But, I also think that MPs and others have the right to criticise that decision.

    No one, other than their constituents, has the right to remove them from public office.

    As LJ Sedley put it "freedom of speech, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to say things that others don't want to hear."
    There need to be standards of speech, like libel or hate speech or incitement, that accept that speech is an action and actions can cause harm. If you believe in a democratic state, that state needs methods of defending itself. Many people here argue “hang em and flog em” for climate protesters who at worst are an inconvenience, but defend the right of those who can leverage their platforms to purposefully erode trust in democratic society to their own ends. It is clear these kinds of people, the Trumps, the Johnsons, the Tuckers or the Farages, do not care about anything but their own power and influence, and are willing for everything to burn down for it. Why should we have to accept the destruction of institutions in favour of the rich and powerful? Why should we protect them when they just want to use us all up, suck the life juice out of us, and discard us? It isn’t a slippery slope to say “those who already have power and privilege have an obligation to use that in a way that doesn’t lead to the erosion of civil society”. I’m not saying lock them up, necessarily, but fuck them. If I went up to an MP to boo or shout at them, with the new anti protest laws, am I protected? No. Because the same people who cry free speech whilst they are setting everything on fire are crying about how mean it is and saying it should be illegal to call them arsonists.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,301

    Yep.
    I'm getting a bit pissed off with weather presenters burbling on about tomorrow being another fantastic day.
    Well, long term thinking is not part of their remit I guess. It'd be OK for us to have that many 'fantastic' days in isolation.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,966
    GIN1138 said:

    Lloyd George was a bit of an old rascal. Some would say Blair telling lies to justify his illegal war wasn't very moral either...
    DLG was the only example Rory could come up with that he thought was close
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,301

    I make that three times that Bozo has lost a job as a result of lying.

    Law breaker. Liar. "Right Honourable".

    He has not list his job as an MP for lying. He flounced off because of it, which was his own choice of course.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,602
    Scott_xP said:

    @SamCoatesSky

    The vote on Monday WILL be on whether to block Boris Johnson’s Parliament pass as an ex MP.

    It will be a free vote on the Tory side, I understand

    They are in danger of looking petty
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 29,846

    Yep.
    I'm getting a bit pissed off with weather presenters burbling on about tomorrow being another fantastic day.
    As long as I can remember, presenters in air-conditioned studios have told us how glorious was the hot weather.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,158
    148grss said:
    Agreed, pretty depressing.

    One UK outlet has picked it up tbf:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/15/record-temperatures-global-heating
  • PhilPhil Posts: 2,534

    None of your arguments on this can have any traction for as long as only 60% of homes with planning permission are actually being built. And this is not a case of having land in the pipeline or any of those feeble excuses. The number of unbuilt homes with planning permissions has been going up by between 80 and 100 thousand a year for more than a decade.

    Deal with that and then come back and look at planning - 90% of which has nothing to do with 'permission' and is only concerned with the necessery conditions attached to permission.
    I disagree Richard - planning is at the heart of why we have this backlog of unbuilt homes with planning permission, because it’s the planning regime that shapes the incentives under which the house builders seek to maximise profits.

    You can’t fix the housing shortage without fixing planning, somehow.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,158

    They are in danger of looking petty
    Indeed. They should vote to block his resignation honours list.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,840

    You and I are never going to agree but I find the fact that land with planning permission can be worth 600x land without it a pretty significant indicator that planning permission is an impediment. When planning is worth upto 99.8% of the value of the land, then its hardly inconsequential now is it?

    A key measurement to business transparency and opportunities is that businesses can reliably operate and act with delays measured in days or weeks, not years. The planning system can hold up developments for years and the risk of that is enough to keep small businesses out of the market almost altogether leaving the market to an oligopoly who can afford to land bank and abuse the system safe from competition from smaller firms.
    An example of the issues relating to planning is the way that big developers often have a *local* monopoly.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127
    Farooq said:

    You think it's ok to blow up adult men then
    There's a hierarchy of blow up dolls in the modern Tory party.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,414
    Farooq said:

    I hate the royal family and I'm a liberal not a leftist.
    Takes all sorts, I guess.
    I’m a right winger and I hate the royals and the working classes.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,550
    @ftukpolitics

    Boris Johnson exits as he entered, with deceit and contempt

    https://twitter.com/ftukpolitics/status/1669307956905623552
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 29,846

    Neither Lloyd George nor Blair reached Johnson's level of disregard for the truth.

    Johnson is a sociopath imo, very similar to but perhaps not (allowed to be) as extreme as Trump.

    (Regarding Trump's mental view of the world, I cannot recommend Mary Trump's biog 'Too much and never enough' too highly - it's very good.)
    Even if we accept Blair was lying rather than wrong, we can see why he was lying, and the same with almost all politicians but with Boris, there often seems no reason to it, no payoff. Much of it could be classed as bullshit rather than lies because to lie means acknowledging some form of objective truth.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,158
    HYUFD said:

    Hatred of the traditional family, hatred of the nation state, hatred of the royal family, hatred of the West and its history and Christian and Jewish historical culture, hatred of capitalism, hatred of white working class males' views. All from the left
    Well this is a shock. I thought I was pretty much on the left but clearly not; I've failed the HYUFD test simply by being married to the same woman for 43 years.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 29,846
    Who will play Boris in the next biopic? Surely there must be one in the works, or several. The Hatton Garden robbery gave us half a dozen films and series. We can't wait for The Crown.
  • None of your arguments on this can have any traction for as long as only 60% of homes with planning permission are actually being built. And this is not a case of having land in the pipeline or any of those feeble excuses. The number of unbuilt homes with planning permissions has been going up by between 80 and 100 thousand a year for more than a decade.

    Deal with that and then come back and look at planning - 90% of which has nothing to do with 'permission' and is only concerned with the necessery conditions attached to permission.
    You are obsessed with this figure as if it actually means anything or addresses any of the concerns raised. It does not. Quite the opposite, your figure demonstrates that my concerns are valid.

    Why do you think that figure is remotely relevant?

    There are two reasons why houses might have permission but not be built which are both fuelled by the planning system being the problem.

    One is that as I said land with permission is worth magnitudes more than land without. So people with zero intention of actually building a house can seek to get permission in the hope of artificially inflating the value of their land in order to then flog it to someone else with a permission premium in the price. If they fail to flog it, then land will never be developed, as they were operating in bad faith all along and only doing so due to the permission system inflating the value of land with permission so much.

    The second is that land with permission can be controlled by a local monopoly or oligopoly of developers. This was a key concern I raised and you dismiss because you look at a percentage figure and think it matters. That oligopoly can choose to go slow or develop land at their preferred pace because they know they're safe from competition because the planning system acts as a barrier of entry against competitors.

    Your percentage figure is not relevant to the debate in the way you think it is. That people are abusing the planning system to inflate the value of their land banks is precisely a flaw of the planning system that would be resolved with planning reform.
  • MuesliMuesli Posts: 202
    HYUFD said:

    Hatred of the traditional family, hatred of the nation state, hatred of the royal family, hatred of the West and its history and Christian and Jewish historical culture, hatred of capitalism, hatred of white working class males' views. All from the left
    Don’t forget hatred of the flag, hatred of cisgendered women, hatred of industry, hatred of free enterprise, hatred of the rich, hatred of children, hatred of… *yawn* Other tired canards are available.

    How about hatred a reaction somewhere between indifference and irritation towards tedious bores with an outdated and sepia-tinted perspective on how the world ought to be and a sense of perpetual outrage against the cultural, economic and social norms of contemporary life?
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,990
    edited June 2023
    I wish Westminster would devote their time to actually governing and fixing some problems rather than this boring shite.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,902

    Osborne made a linguistic mistake on Twitter that was immediately corrected by Brandon Lewis, who was the frigging Party Chairman at the time.

    https://twitter.com/BrandonLewis/status/1111913989481684994.
    @George_Osborne Dominic has not been deselected & I agree (as I outlined on @BBCr4today) he is an outstanding colleague who we will continue to support.

    Everyone else said he was at risk of deselection. He wasn't deselected as Brandon Lewis explained.

    Who to believe, the Party Chairman, or you?
    It's a standard HYUFD argument.
    When caught out by a fact check, he frequently argues that he was "effectively" still correct.
    Nonsense, of course - but it renders such protracted arguments tedious, and a waste of your time.
  • WillGWillG Posts: 2,366

    Well this is a shock. I thought I was pretty much on the left but clearly not; I've failed the HYUFD test simply by being married to the same woman for 43 years.
    HYUFD, presumably you think King Solomon and various other OT figures hate the traditional family, given he had hundreds of wives and concubines.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Taz said:

    Bud light no longer the top selling beer in the US

    https://twitter.com/dailyloud/status/1669187862317629440

    Gerald Ratner would be proud of them.

    Imagine saying that your beer was perceived as ‘too fratty’, ‘out of touch’ and ‘needing to be more inclusive’, then hiring a very controversial cross-dressing ‘influencer’, with an audience of mostly underage teens, to promote the brand.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,090
    Thr Conservative Party hasn't pulled its punches.

    It has totally eviscerated Johnson, and is returning to sanity.
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 7,275

    Even if we accept Blair was lying rather than wrong, we can see why he was lying, and the same with almost all politicians but with Boris, there often seems no reason to it, no payoff. Much of it could be classed as bullshit rather than lies because to lie means acknowledging some form of objective truth.
    Boris instinctively wants to be liked. He doesnt want to moderate his behaviour in order to obtain such approval, so in the face of adversity or scrutiny, he lies.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,414
    edited June 2023

    Thr Conservative Party hasn't pulled its punches.

    It has totally eviscerated Johnson, and is returning to sanity.

    You might need to have words with JRM, Brendon Clarke-Smith, Paul Bristow, Simon Clarke et al.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,342
    148grss said:

    There need to be standards of speech, like libel or hate speech or incitement, that accept that speech is an action and actions can cause harm. If you believe in a democratic state, that state needs methods of defending itself. Many people here argue “hang em and flog em” for climate protesters who at worst are an inconvenience, but defend the right of those who can leverage their platforms to purposefully erode trust in democratic society to their own ends. It is clear these kinds of people, the Trumps, the Johnsons, the Tuckers or the Farages, do not care about anything but their own power and influence, and are willing for everything to burn down for it. Why should we have to accept the destruction of institutions in favour of the rich and powerful? Why should we protect them when they just want to use us all up, suck the life juice out of us, and discard us? It isn’t a slippery slope to say “those who already have power and privilege have an obligation to use that in a way that doesn’t lead to the erosion of civil society”. I’m not saying lock them up, necessarily, but fuck them. If I went up to an MP to boo or shout at them, with the new anti protest laws, am I protected? No. Because the same people who cry free speech whilst they are setting everything on fire are crying about how mean it is and saying it should be illegal to call them arsonists.
    If the people who say things you dislike are barred from office, do you think that will strengthen democracy or weaken it?

    When you censor such people, all you're demonstrating is that you cannot refute them.
  • NemtynakhtNemtynakht Posts: 2,329

    Sweden had a furlough scheme.

    We had a furlough scheme even post-lockdown.

    Yes I am 100% proposing support is offered but then people choose whether to take it or not. As we did post-lockdown, and Sweden did throughout.
    People regularly die doing everyday activities such as commuting to work, and working. In H&S the standard looked for is as low as reasonably practicable and the obsession with zero covid seems to go well beyond this reasonable approach.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,902
    .
    HYUFD said:

    Many of you weren't complaining much about the IRA or Hamas blowing up women and children and further back about Stalin and Pol Pot either.

    "Many of you ?"
    You are talking some utter shite today.
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    A clear majority of the public will be happy to see the liar banned from Parliament and also to have his allowance cancelled.

  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,236

    You are obsessed with this figure as if it actually means anything or addresses any of the concerns raised. It does not. Quite the opposite, your figure demonstrates that my concerns are valid.

    Why do you think that figure is remotely relevant?

    There are two reasons why houses might have permission but not be built which are both fuelled by the planning system being the problem.

    One is that as I said land with permission is worth magnitudes more than land without. So people with zero intention of actually building a house can seek to get permission in the hope of artificially inflating the value of their land in order to then flog it to someone else with a permission premium in the price. If they fail to flog it, then land will never be developed, as they were operating in bad faith all along and only doing so due to the permission system inflating the value of land with permission so much.

    The second is that land with permission can be controlled by a local monopoly or oligopoly of developers. This was a key concern I raised and you dismiss because you look at a percentage figure and think it matters. That oligopoly can choose to go slow or develop land at their preferred pace because they know they're safe from competition because the planning system acts as a barrier of entry against competitors.

    Your percentage figure is not relevant to the debate in the way you think it is. That people are abusing the planning system to inflate the value of their land banks is precisely a flaw of the planning system that would be resolved with planning reform.
    Garbage. Your argument would only apply if planning applications were being routinely denied. They are not. Over 90% of all housing planning applications are approved by the local authorities without reference to a higher authority. And half of those which are appealed by developers are then granted with conditions to satisfy the local authority concerns.

    Your whole argument about planning is just riubbish and reveals a profound ignorance of what planning is actually for and what it does.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,371

    No, I'm a liberal not an anarchist.

    But I don't view driving 100mph outside a school as the same as sending a child to school.
    In some situations, the actions of someone carrying an infectious disease or possibly carrying an infectious disease can be as dangerous as driving at 100mph outside a school. Of course we should weigh up costs and benefits, but I don’t see why you are so absolute against legally-enforceable public health restrictions in a pandemic, but fine with limits on driving.

    I don’t know what the next pandemic will be. I hope we don’t have lockdowns ever again, but I see no reason to rule them out as an option in extremis.
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 7,275
    edited June 2023

    Lol, being promised a gong is now a bad thing.


    Imagine having Dorries as your MP. 5 days ago you were going to have a new representative to look after your interests after she blatantly told you she wasn’t interested in doing so anymore. Now, instead of leaving she’s going to bedblock you getting the representation you deserve by running a one woman crusade against the honours committee.

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,902
    edited June 2023
    .

    You might need to have words with JRM, Brendon Clarke-Smith, Paul Bristow, Simon Clarke et al.
    And HYUFD today.
    Not one of his best.
  • NemtynakhtNemtynakht Posts: 2,329

    None of your arguments on this can have any traction for as long as only 60% of homes with planning permission are actually being built. And this is not a case of having land in the pipeline or any of those feeble excuses. The number of unbuilt homes with planning permissions has been going up by between 80 and 100 thousand a year for more than a decade.

    Deal with that and then come back and look at planning - 90% of which has nothing to do with 'permission' and is only concerned with the necessery conditions attached to permission.
    The most reasonable approach is to allow more development but tax the land value increase heavily - currently too many developments are based on which local councillor you are mates with
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127

    Who will play Boris in the next biopic? Surely there must be one in the works, or several. The Hatton Garden robbery gave us half a dozen films and series. We can't wait for The Crown.

    Well, it won't be Glenda Jackson.

    Too soon?
  • glwglw Posts: 10,306

    Boris instinctively wants to be liked. He doesnt want to moderate his behaviour in order to obtain such approval, so in the face of adversity or scrutiny, he lies.

    That's a good point, if Boris behaved better and followed rules he wouldn't need to lie so much, but he's not changed at all. He's the same skirt-chasing, lazy, ignorant, loudmouth he was a young man, and so in a job with a huge amount of public scrutiny he ends up lying and lying and lying to try and cover-up what we all can plainly see.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,697

    In some situations, the actions of someone carrying an infectious disease or possibly carrying an infectious disease can be as dangerous as driving at 100mph outside a school. Of course we should weigh up costs and benefits, but I don’t see why you are so absolute against legally-enforceable public health restrictions in a pandemic, but fine with limits on driving.

    I don’t know what the next pandemic will be. I hope we don’t have lockdowns ever again, but I see no reason to rule them out as an option in extremis.
    Well, many reasons for one but not the other, but the simplest is that there are a hell of a lot more downsides to missing months of school than to be unable to exceed speed limits.
  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Posts: 1,378
    Nick Tyrone
    @NicholasTyrone
    ·
    5h
    Nigel Farage appears to believe that Brexit has failed, not because Brexit was a bad idea, but because Boris Johnson screwed it up. So now he wants to fix Brexit by....teaming up with Boris Johnson.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,902
    GIN1138 said:

    Er.. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc etc etc might have something today about that?
    Amoral would be more accurate.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,124

    Thr Conservative Party hasn't pulled its punches.

    It has totally eviscerated Johnson, and is returning to sanity.

    It was a cross-party committee.
    The Tories themselves look hopelessly divided.
    And Nadine needs an intervention.
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,170

    What’s the benefit of some of these Johnson loyalist declaring their undying support for him on Twitter?

    Stockholm Syndrome
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,158

    Imagine having Dorries as your MP. 5 days ago you were going to have a new representative to look after your interests after she blatantly told you she wasn’t interested in doing so anymore. Now, instead of leaving she’s going to bedblock you getting the representation you deserve by running a one woman crusade against the honours committee.

    Sunak should have whipped the Johnson report vote - then he could have taken removed the whip from all the Johnson diehards. There is a precedent, after all.
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 33,236

    The most reasonable approach is to allow more development but tax the land value increase heavily - currently too many developments are based on which local councillor you are mates with
    That is a myth. Almost all planning consents are decided by councillors in line with planning office recommendations. Unless you are suggesting widespread fraud by staff council employees and officials then you claim really has no grounds. There are exceptional circumstances where councillors reject planning office recommendations but they are usually high profile and thus in the public spotlight.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,840

    Even if we accept Blair was lying rather than wrong, we can see why he was lying, and the same with almost all politicians but with Boris, there often seems no reason to it, no payoff. Much of it could be classed as bullshit rather than lies because to lie means acknowledging some form of objective truth.
    I think Blair was bullshitting *himself* at the same time as building the lies that went with it. If that sounds familiar….
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,017
    Nigelb said:

    .

    "Many of you ?"
    You are talking some utter shite today.
    An unnecessary qualifier at the end.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127
    edited June 2023
    An ex PBer I believe? I regret that he was before my time so I missed the opportunity to tell him repeatedly what an rsole he is.

    https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1669311254429573122?s=20
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,219
    Nigelb said:

    .

    "Many of you ?"
    You are talking some utter shite today.
    He does have a point though. I wasn't complaining about Stalin, nor Pol Pot. I wasn't born, but that's just a wet lefty liberal excuse!
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,902

    An unnecessary qualifier at the end.
    I disagree.
    Infuriating as he is on occasion, he's an interesting contributor, even if I rarely agree with anything he says.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,612

    Yep.
    I'm getting a bit pissed off with weather presenters burbling on about tomorrow being another fantastic day.
    I think you are mixing up Haircut 100 and The Weathergirls.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,371
    Cookie said:

    Well, many reasons for one but not the other, but the simplest is that there are a hell of a lot more downsides to missing months of school than to be unable to exceed speed limits.
    The costs and benefits are very different. It’s going to depend on what the pandemic is. It’s going to depend on what lockdown is proposed. (A week long lockdown during the summer holidays isn’t going to have the same impact as a months long lockdown.) It depends on what sort of road is outside the school. What I don’t see is a rationale as to why there could never be a case where a lockdown could be the right approach. I question Bart’s absolutism.
  • I wonder whether the article that Sunak, Jenrick and Dowden wrote for The Times on 5 June 2019 entitled "The Tories are in deep peril. Only Boris Johnson can save us" will be hanging like an albatross around Sunak's neck?

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-tories-are-in-deep-peril-only-boris-johnson-can-save-us-3xq9lrvr3 (£££)
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,127

    I think you are mixing up Haircut 100 and The Weathergirls.
    It's raining the global extinction of men.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,651

    FROM PREVIOUS THREAD -

    >> Late yesterday, sent following email to House of Commons Enquiry Service:

    Dear HC Enquiries,

    I am emailing you, in hopes you may be able to answer following question:

    When it comes to providing services to constituents, what is procedure
    when an MP leaves the House by accepting office under the crown AND a
    new MP has not yet been elected?

    Specifically, does the former MP have any remaining responsibilities
    for his former constituents in this situation?

    Or must they contact some other MP for help? Or what?

    Thank you in advance for your professional assistance!

    >> This morning, received following response:

    Thank you for your email.

    When a Member of Parliament steps down there is no standard procedure for how the work of that MP will be managed until a new MP is in place. Whilst it would only be an informal arrangement, typically an MP of the same party in a neighbouring constituency manages constituency matters until a by-election is held.

    I hope this proves helpful.

    >> That's good enough for me, but if any other PBer wants to enquire further:

    hcenquiries@parliament.uk
    +44 (0)20 7219 4272 | Text relay: 18001 020 7219 4272

    Thank you for actually taking the time to enquire. It's slightly sad that it took someone from overseas to bother to actually ask the question of the House of Commons rather than rant at each other without checking to see.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,219
    edited June 2023

    Who will play Boris in the next biopic? Surely there must be one in the works, or several. The Hatton Garden robbery gave us half a dozen films and series. We can't wait for The Crown.

    Isn't there a young HoL nominee with some resemblance?
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 7,275
    edited June 2023

    I think Blair was bullshitting *himself* at the same time as building the lies that went with it. If that sounds familiar….
    Blair had an almost religious-level of zeal in his bullshittery when it hinged on something he cared passionately about (like the case for war in Iraq). So I suspect there is something in what you say.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,171

    Who will play Boris in the next biopic? Surely there must be one in the works, or several. The Hatton Garden robbery gave us half a dozen films and series. We can't wait for The Crown.

    Maybe Boris can play himself.

    It's not as if he's got much else to do.

  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 29,660
    It appears that the Dorries has decided not to resign as an MP yet. You can imagine just how horrendous her contribution in next Monday's debate is going to be! Indeed we will have a line up of fawning lickspittles all fingering their Boris Bauble whilst entirely coincidentally saying how the report is an outrage.

    And then the Dorries. I want flying spittle. I want her named for refusing to shut up or retract the most unparliamentary language. Go on Nadine, show them how a working class girl from Liverpool fights the establishment.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,550

    Maybe Boris can play himself.

    It's not as if he's got much else to do.

    NSFW

    https://twitter.com/stevehillage/status/1669306275564232705
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,414
    Lock him up.


  • Garbage. Your argument would only apply if planning applications were being routinely denied. They are not. Over 90% of all housing planning applications are approved by the local authorities without reference to a higher authority. And half of those which are appealed by developers are then granted with conditions to satisfy the local authority concerns.

    Your whole argument about planning is just riubbish and reveals a profound ignorance of what planning is actually for and what it does.
    10% being routinely designed by your own figures means they are being routinely denied.

    If you're an independent, small tradesman who could develop a house but has limited capital would you put all your capital into buying a plot of land knowing there's a 10% chance that your application would be denied thus tying up all your capital into an asset you can't develop?

    No, of course you won't and nor will anyone else, which is why the small businesses that can develop houses around the world are crowded out in this country by an oligopoly who can control the market instead.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,171

    Lock him up.


    Clunk click.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,550
    Dura_Ace said:

    The tories are going to need some very nuanced messaging on brexit. Brexit's brilliant but the person who delivered it is a fucking swindler might be a tough sell.
    @mac_puck

    Hey, Brexit supporters!

    If the guy who sold you those shares in a Nigerian Bridge project is subsequently proved to be the biggest con-man since Charles Ponzi - PROVED beyond all doubt or contradiction - don't you think you should maybe start checking that bridge investment out?
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