Water supply is a population issue not a housing issue. I wonder if the Greens would oppose immigration on these crude terms.
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦
@DuncanStott
Former director, @pricedoutuk | geeky liberal | YIMBY
Oxford, Oxford-Cambridge Arc Katılım Nisan 2009
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
Canterbury Greens desperately trying to block housing delivery by the Labour / Lib Dem Council...
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£5 million is nothing. The bigger cost by far is the increased cost of govt borrowing caused by political instability.
John Leech@johnleechmcr
@LisaSmartMP couldn't have said it better. Labour should pay the £5 million it will cost to run by-elections in Makerfield and Greater Manchester.
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
Housing industry journalism is so awful on this "oversupply" idea
Imagine if egg reporters started writing about egg "oversupply" bc of the recent crash
It's not "oversupply"! Eggs are supposed to be under $3/dozen at current marginal cost!
No other sector talks like this
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
Zoning reform isn't just about the overall supply of housing: it's also about ensuring a range of options, spatially and in terms of housing typology, which is sorely lacking nearly everywhere, even in places without a shortage.
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
Given UK gov now effectively cancelled the largest capacity upgrade projects (HS2, CARS, TDNS, etc) the only real lever left to pull is ticket prices.
That means more than likely we will be seeing GBR in its infancy having hike prices to suppress demand, just what we need. 🙃
Gareth Marston@MarstonGareth
U.K. mainline rail use excluding Elizabeth line was 105% of the equivalent period in 2019 (4 weeks ending 3rd May) making overall usage c120% of pre covid…gov.uk/government/sta…
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:
"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."
It's not true, it's utter garbage.
I'll go through facts and figures. /1
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@HCH_Hill @BarbaraRich_law It was evidenced to HMRC and they have accepted it.
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@DuncanStott @BarbaraRich_law Not at all, but the 'revelation' is as yet not evidenced.
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It follows from this revelation that Angela Rayner would have a prima facie case of professional negligence against the person who had given this mistaken advice. But the political damage from having followed the advice would be unquantifiable and irrecoverable on such a claim
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
Aaronson says that the actual facts demonstrated that Ms Rayner *had* been given definitive advice there was no higher rate SDLT charge, without a caveat.
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
NEW: Natural England are set to delay Hinkley Point C by insisting on even more measures to protect fish.
A two-year delay to Hinkley Point C Unit 1 would mean about 24TWh less clean firm power on the grid, between 2-4bn cubic metres more gas burnt, and between 4-8m tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Even though EDF have spent £700m on fish protection, including a £50m acoustic fish deterrent that is 93% effective, regulator Natural England wants them to do even more.
This is likely to involve creating a salt marsh on nearby farmland. This could take years.
samdumitriu.com/p/natural-engl…
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@HCH_Hill @BarbaraRich_law Politicians have to run all their tax affairs through Dan Neidle now?
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@BarbaraRich_law Is it a revelation? Dan says they won't show any documentation proving it.
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
@matthewhodg I was told by someone who attended - that at a UK gov meeting on designating UK critical infrastructure - NR mentioned Severn and was told that Severn Tunnel is not critical to the UK and never would be. Small video I took a few years ago in the tunnel, it is a shocking place
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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 retweetledi
Stop having the money to pay doctors, nurses, teachers, police officers and firefighters. See how quickly the public sector falls.
Patricia@PatriciaNPino
Stop issuing bonds. See how quickly the bond markets fall in line.
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@DanNeidle All of us, including politicians, should expect privacy of our tax affairs with HMRC. Pressuring for the release of documents when the matter has been closed breaches this. And I worry that going down this road risks inspiring conspiratorial thinking in the nuttier corners.
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@DanNeidle Until now I've been with you all the way on the scrutiny you've given to politicians of all colours. But for the first time I think you've taken a step too far. On what basis should we be calling HMRC's ability to make a decision on carelessness into doubt?
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An update on Angela Rayner. I wrote this morning that our team didn't understand why HMRC accepted Ms Rayner was not "careless", and so escaped penalties.
I've since spoken to her lawyer, Graham Aaronson KC.
The conversation was surprising.
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@fredsters_s Are those arrest numbers bigger than we'd expect?
Was reducing crime on Croydon's high street a specific aim?
Otherwise we could cherry pick other streets where crime rates happened to have come out lower.
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@DuncanStott "Static cameras were activated and used in 24 separate operations, and officers made 173 arrests, the equivalent of one arrest every 35 minutes, the Met said."
"The Metropolitan Police said crime reduced by 10.5% during the trial on Croydon's high street"
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A classic bit of policy-based evidence-making here.
Rowland Manthorpe@rowlsmanthorpe
More than 170 criminals, including a woman wanted for more than 20 years, were arrested during a six-month trial of live facial recognition in south London We are entering a new era and one of its features is that it will be much harder to hide
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@fredsters_s Nothing here demonstrates a causal link between LFR and these outcomes. What is the control group? And regarding violence specifically against women and girls, was that an original intention of the trial? It smacks of cherry-picking and outcome switching. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_s…
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@DuncanStott @MrHarryCole @JamesManning Well makes sense yeah. If I was an X billionaire I'd probably fund the party that wants to cut tax on X.
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EXC: “He who pays the piper picks the tune?”
“Hang on a second. Hang on a second. I can't be bought by anybody.”
Nigel Farage responds to £5m donor investigation insisting “I'm not and never have been” a crook
Now claims it was “reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years”
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@Victoria_Spratt It was the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards that said Rayner had breached the code.
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Having read the legal conclusion on Angela Rayner’s stamp duty, and having spoken to several lawyers who all agree about the well known complexity in this space, I have a question:
How could No 10 be so sure she had breached the ministerial code?
Of course, the optics were bad (very bad) but, clearly, it was never cut and dry.
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