Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I know it well.

This is more of a concern for me. I worry that the Greens haven’t yet drawn a line in terms of what is too left wing.

You’re banned from ADHD Club.

And *don’t* come back.

I can absolutely see why.

Counterpoint argument though; if Sultana joins, that may well be the final nail in the coffin of Your Party. Sultana might make further embarrassing blunders, but Your Party could seriously undermine the Green vote.

May be a price worth paying.

What a time to be alive.

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Out of interest, what do you tend to use for the external / lower board of the floor cassette?

Is it okay if I ask what your experience is? Are you a PM?

I don’t think it’s offensive to other professionals, except maybe PMs.

Architects do vast amounts of training, then end up lower paid than PMs (who generally don’t). That’s not sustainable.

We project manage traditional projects.

I like to think - hope? - that he believed in things once upon a time.

Excellent point. If you’re going down all guns blazing, that’s a great one to go down for.

As a wider point, he really could just start being brave now. Make the unpopular decisions.

If it goes badly, you know that you caught all of the flak and allow your predecessor a cleaner slate to work from.

Screw it; announce a full reassessment of council tax.

I think this links back to the need for improved build standards.

Modern flats with well managed / designed shared circulation along with good noise insulation would hugely improve matters.

However until you can persuade people that this is what they’ll get, it’ll be an uphill struggle.

There absolutely isn’t the history of it here that you’d find on the continent.

However we need to find ways to persuade people of the benefits. Not just wider societal benefits, but the benefits to the individuals themselves.

Sooner or later we need to test demand for (decent) family apartments.

At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

Problem is, I suspect a lot of people outside of the US are knee deep in it with their pensions, ISAs etc.

I’m pretty limited in my understanding of economics, however I’m struggling with the idea that a crash in these investments wouldn’t have a much wider impact, or am I being negative?

Good luck to Labour persuading their remaining members to pound the street, knock on doors, deliver leaflets.

Extract their gold teeth?

Problem this time is, we no longer have enough national assets to flog off to create a boom decade.