While there are few people I would rather not have as Prime Minister than Keir Starmer, many of the policies to get houses built are long-needed efforts to tackle problems which have been unaddressed for decades.
Throughout that time, the Green Belt has been talked about as though it was designated sunlit uplands when, in reality, it’s just a gap between settlements – and much of it is poor quality.
So, in the PR battle, Grey Belt is an excellent description of land which could be built on. Whoever coined the phrase must have been taking advice from whoever came up with the term ‘brownfield land’.
That one conjures up images of derelict pre-war factories being replaced by much-needed homes, distracting those who might otherwise think of it as our manufacturing heritage being swept away for expensive flats because we don’t make anything anymore. A masterful way to sell a concept.
Nowadays everyone wants brownfield land built on and I’ve little doubt they’ll soon want Grey Belt land built on too. Once that’s all gone, they’ll need to think hard about another colour with negative connotations.
While these policies will likely get houses built, the Government’s emboldened status, backed by its huge majority, is being reflected in the approach of developers and their representatives.
Take a look at the July 9th meeting of Thurrock Council’s planning committee and note the tone of the applicants in each of two proposed, major housing developments.
These two three-minute speeches can be seen in the webcast here starting at 00:29:23 and 01:16:58.
Rather than try to persuade the committee, representatives from Mulberry Strategic Land and Grasslands cared little for what the councillors thought and basically challenged the committee to refuse their schemes. Their basic theme was, ‘the Government is on our side’.
As it happens both were refused and committee chair, Cllr. Michael Fletcher (a Labour member), ended up calling for more respect from applicants. But my money is on the developer at any subsequent appeal.
Where the concept of emboldened developers takes us is hard to predict, but emboldened politicians are rarely a good thing.
And few people in Government are as drunk on their new power as the Energy Minister, Ed Miliband. A lifelong ideologue, Miliband has already waved through the Sunnica solar farm – the U.K.’s biggest so far – banned new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea and scrapped the ban on onshore wind farms in England.
How anyone took seriously his election campaign pledge to cut energy bills by £300 is hard to grasp.
In Miliband’s Net Zero obsession, the gigantic cost is not a factor, nor is the countryside, the loss of farmland or the people who live near the swathes of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines that will likely characterise open space in the U.K. in the next few years.
Nothing gets in the way of his single-minded drive to rely upon unreliable energy. Nowhere in his head is the thought that the U.K. is not the most sun-soaked country in the world, so solar panels here might not be the most efficient.
As for what happens to wind energy when the wind doesn’t blow seems almost too obvious a question, but this is 2024. What passes for an opposition in the U.K. would never ask anything so impertinent. Switching to air source heat pumps and electric vehicles has no downside for these people. Nor would they suggest the rising U.K. population is adding to the housing crisis.
They will just continue to admire the Emperor’s new clothes until the ideology and reality come face to face.
Historian Morris Berman once said: “An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you.”
We might get more houses built, but when the ideologues are in charge, the cost may well outweigh the benefits.
Alan Bunce is the Editor of regional property website Thames Tap. This article was first published on the U.K. Property Forums website.
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Morning good people of DS , my wife & I are in good old Barmouth for the weekend , pubs , restaurants & hotels have struggled all summer for staff ! To tempt anyone they would have to pay more than 16 hours to better jobless benefits ! +
I am reminded of a visit we made here when Ferguson’s Foot & Mouth epidemic was at its peak wiping out most farm animals under B lier government , quite fortuitous for the fledgling green vegan brigade at the time !
While I’m on, the piece above regarding PayPal closing the anti pedophile account whilst seeming to keep a pro pedo site account open shows how far into the abyss of a parallel world we are falling at rapid pace , where everything is now geared against any kind of truth .
Nuremberg 2 list , hypothetical of course ( is it though ) , Billy boy , Schwobby, Trudope, Toothy , Tedros, Stalins nan , Fauci , obama , Clinton’s , Blair , witless & unbalanced , fraud van tam , dr Hilary , Krankie , Khan of London , most bbc & sky pundits including the smug commentators shoving blm at every chance , Bojoke just for shouting “Get Boosted” ,savid jabbit, Dickies bro , Lenny jib Jab of the Henry, merkel , Italy’s enemy Von de Lyon , in fact all WEF ers & pretty much all government staff worldwide unless proven otherwise ( I’ve woken up too early
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“Nuremberg 2 list , hypothetical…”
At least it’s a start Freddy. Good morning by the way.
And good morning fellow grunts.
That was a very ”interesting” song/video you shared last night. I was way off base with my guess!! LOL
I hope you enjoyed it.
As I said, they were amazing live. Really full on. I will post the link later.
Great that the PayPal business is getting so much mainstream attention. Could turn out to be an own goal for their side.
Is it too early to talk about quantum dot nanorouters? No? OK then, good. More on the *possibility* of lots of nano-weirdness that ‘Mik Anderson’ ( who’s blog was taken down so none of the hyperlinks work ) seems confident are in the gene therapies. As always, huge amount of effort seems to have gone into this person’s work, all fully referenced, but still their blog gets censored. I wonder why that could be….
https://www.richplanet.net/vaccine.php
Regarding covid related entry restrictions, the US is now the obvious rich liberal democracy outlier globally but what about Spain. Europe has been almost 100% open for a fair while now, Spain still insisting on vaxx or negative test. Hope it screws up their tourist industry.
My daughter, who stuck to her guns and remained heroically unspeared while most of her friends and college peers got the jab simply to go on holiday, managed to get into Spain twice this summer, once by using a fake test and the second time she didn’t even bother with that. Spanish customs waved her in without demanding her vax status or asking for proof of negativity. I have the feeling that on the ground, the Spanish, in typical, wonderful Hispanic style, were simply ignoring the dictates of their insane government.
I have the feeling that the last two years have been a simple test of our willingness to comply. In my experience, acting as normal and ignoring all the increasingly bizarre restrictions garnered me zero fallout. Meanwhile, it was those who succumbed to fear and bent over backwards to follow the various ‘mandates’ who suffered, and they brought this suffering on themselves.
My daughter was checked thoroughly on entry to Madrid recently by people in hazmat suits. I think it very much depends on where and when you travel. Personally I wouldn’t risk it because I simply would not enjoy the experience, but that applies to travel for pleasure rather than some kind of necessity or if you’re really desperate to see a friend or family. All other things being equal I will only go to countries with no entry restrictions and no internal covid restrictions of any kind.
She was going to Ibiza and then Tenerife. I guess Madrid is the belly of the beast, thus hardcore.
Interesting short video of Karen Kingston ( Biotech analyst ) talking to Stew Peters about this latest executive order of Biden’s;
https://rumble.com/v1k4yyd-stew-peters-karen-kingston-exposes-bidens-satanic-eo-forcing-transhumanism.html
Well this is interesting and disconcerting in equal measure. The US Dept of Homeland Security has filed a patent for luciferase, a bioluminescent enzyme, with a view to using it on quantum dots via a skin patch so that this patch or tattoo can contain your vaccine/medical data and you can be scanned, like an item at the supermarket.
The guy in this 30min video does a better job of explaining it than me so I recommend watching this. This is news to me.
https://rumble.com/v1lb9e5-government-with-the-support-of-bill-gates-creating-luciferase-mark-to-track.html
Reminded me of this: –
watch
British data and study debunks the ‘vaccine prevents hospitalisation and death’ myth and confirms Prof Fenton’s assessment of the ‘2 weeks after’ impact and fraud. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/no-the-vaccines-never-worked-all?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Seems the goo can indeed enter the nucleus and alter ones DNA. https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid-vaccine-alters-your
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/blackrock-vanguard-own-big-pharma-media/
Who Owns Big Pharma + Big Media? You’ll Never Guess.
(I think that’s meant to be sarcastic!)
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/mrna-covid-shots-for-kids-are-dead
mRNA Covid shots for kids are deadOnly 325,000 of the 19 million children under 5 are fully vaccinated, not even 2 percent. Cue the excuses from vaccine fanatics
It’s the teenagers I worry for, immune system could be screwed for life all in aid if an intervention they did not need.
https://archive.ph/tMlby
An old paper from 2011 showing that even back then the JVCI were failing in their duties in relation to vaccines….it’s quite shocking and well worth a read with a cuppa…
Having looked through it, I’m now not surprised by their actions involving children and the scam…..it would appear it’s just business as usual….
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-election-candidate-warning-ursula-von-der-leyen/
Von der Leyen’s warning message to Italy irks election candidates
Italian politicians asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to intervene in domestic politics after she warned that Europe has “the tools” to deal with Italy if things go in a “difficult direction.”
During a conference on Thursday at Princeton University, an attendant pointed out to von der Leyen that “figures close to Putin” were among candidates for the upcoming legislative election on Sunday. “We’ll see,” she replied. “If things go in a difficult direction — and I’ve spoken about Hungary and Poland — we have the tools.”
So there you go…don’t be a ‘difficult’ country or the EU Gnatzis have ‘tools’ to use against you!
Re Jesus in a migrant boat…There are also pictures of Jesus standing guard on a slave boat heading out of Bristol, which I find quite touching for some reason (and I’m an atheist) and Jesus standing with protestors during the Bristol bus boycott. If nothing else, they are an interesting narrative on our times – there should be more, covering covid and alleged climate change.
If you didn’t get chance to see it..Danny Kruger MP questioning the decision of PayPal to cancel the accounts of Us For Them and the Free Speech Union among others…
https://www.dannykruger.org.uk/news/business-statement-question-about-paypal-22nd-september-2022