People don't like hearing it, but the same with Cockfosters and Oakwood on the Piccadilly Line. It's why Chase Park a mile or so away is being pushed by Enfield Council. Same with Crews Hill.
It may have been OK if the Tories didn't make councils sell off places at massive discounts and then say you can't use the money to replace the council houses. That's where it became a disaster. Now it requires bold policies to counter, ending right to buy is no longer enough.
Buying back properties needs to be a part of wider programme of building council housing, not constantly reducing the amount of affordable homes being built. All of which needs to be exempt from Right to Buy! This is a good start but a lot more to be done.
Most of our new towns are no more than 100000 and they took decades to build, even one of Britain's most expanded cities, Plymouth is around 260000 and the new areas and city centre took 25+ years to develop. Building somewhere the size of Birmingham from scratch is a megalomaniac pipe dream!
No problem. I'm finding Your Party quite perplexing and disappointing at the moment. But it's more the structures being set up and the way they are going about it. I was expecting a broad coalition of the left and unions, federal in nature, rather than one group trying to dominate everything.
It shouldn't matter. I can't remember everything I want to say the way I say it and having it in front of me helps me know when to stop/ say everything I wanted to say. I find it hard to speak in front of people, this just makes it sound like I should not bother.
Exactly! So what if someone is using their phone as a teleprompter. For some of us, it's only way we know we have said everything we actually wanted to say.
Brilliant, that cheered me up! I hope it works out for him. Also learnt from the interview, Andy Burnham and GM has a neuroinclusive code of practice, they need this everywhere! Discrimination in the workplace is still such a massive problem for the disabled and neurodiverse.
Good to see such a positive turn of events, I hope it works well for him, I really do! Also didn't know that Greater Manchester has a neuroinclusive code of practice, hopefully other regions will copy this. I'm university educated and autistic and work is so hard to get, it needs to change!
What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time benefits are attacked, this is what the disabled face trying work! He may have volunteered but clearly liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation & discrimination from a multi billion pound company!
What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time the right wing attacks benefits, this is what the disabled have to put up with when they work! He may have volunteered but obviously liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation and discrimination from a multi billion pound company!
It's a growing problem in Britain. Rather annoyingly the government did a consultation on pavement parking 5 years ago and then sat on it, doing nothing! Joke really, as it causes so many issues locally and no one seems willing to fix it! In London and Scotland, it's finable but no where else.
Not isolated to Cornwall, Kent and Derbyshire too, reform's lot are bitterly divided so much infighting. Would be entertaining if people didn't rely on councils for so many services. You'd think a mechanism would exist where competent people take over if the existing councillors are unfit for office
How many parties elect 5 MPs and have to kick out 2 of them already anyway? They need to be taken seriously but are not a stable force in the slightest. Even more obvious signs of that in the councils. Just chaos!
That's true but the right are too. In fact, reform are bitterly divided in a way that makes Labour appear to be at peace! reform elects people who quit in days, they have no programme but rhetoric
Also for my own sake I don't see much point in looking at polls until a year before general election
Probably won't be as hard as people think, the way reform organises itself means its numbers are doubtful. And it's not just who's paying dues, but if they are even active in local areas, momentum is not on their side. Just seems like a lot of noise and little substance.
