After their appalling agreement to pay the Mauritians tens of billions to take our islands off us, and pissing away more billions on climate aid while letting pensioners freeze, I think we all know t… (View Post)

They wouldn't be really expensive if significantly more land were available for housing. That's where 70% of the cost of a house is, up from 2% in the 1930s. Not because we've suddenly shrunk as a co… (View Post)

It is the logical end of the disastrous socialist ratchet we've been implementing for the last century, which goes: Limited benefits >> universal benefits >> cradle-to-grave welfare state… (View Post)

The same reason we fail catastrophically to build enough housing and can't generate sustainable economic growth - we have by far the worst national planning system in the developed world (though some… (View Post)

Indeed, but except briefly under Boris, the Conservatives have always been seen as the NIMBY party nationally. Their approach to housing and infrastructure has generally been to bury their head in th… (View Post)