The council housing pledge is also clever politics. The Left NIMBYS (such as a chunk of the Greens) use “enriching evil property developers building houses for the rich” to oppose building. Forcing t… (View Post)

And the lenders don't want to crystallise the loss, if the property is written down in value. See the giant hole in the ground at Canary Wharf - they dug the foundations for a vast tower, then 2… (View Post)

It’s the assumption that the economy has to be zero sum game, which led to the original throttling of places like Birmingham, as deliberate government policy. (View Post)

Burnham is just a candidate for Leader of the labour party at this point. Not sure why politics should stop until his apotheosis is complete? (View Post)

He doesn’t stand to attention when Trump phones him to demand something. (View Post)