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Whig

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@vulpine2020

Whig; limited government; freedom of exchange, expression; personal liberty. Apologist for wheat. Pronouns: ‘Your Eminence’

South East, England Katılım Eylül 2020
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Whig@vulpine2020·
Just seen a man going shopping wearing a tee shirt celebrating the 1917 communist revolution. Imagine popping to the supermarket wearing a shirt celebrating 1933 with some swastikas. Incredible. Why do we treat communism so differently to Nazism when they’re basically the same?
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@baggins_dil @consumerofmonch Infrastructure isn’t housebuilding though (and plenty of government infrastructure is simply an inefficient use of resources)
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Dil@baggins_dil·
@consumerofmonch @vulpine2020 Government can and has done amazing things, like the private sector. In fact most successful countries today have incredibly powerful state actors investing in infrastructure and thereby country's future, as opposed to us where we treat infrastructure as a cost with no benefits.
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Look at building rates in the 1930s before the state intervened. They were both higher than post war and vast majority private. A lot of post war, state housing was low quality and of the wrong type. The state caused the housing crisis - we need the state to get out of the way
Dil@baggins_dil

State used to build half the homes in the country. Private sector always built a similar amount to what it builds today. The main drop has come from the public sector ie local authorities building homes, managing social assets that it builds not just maintains.

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@baggins_dil @consumerofmonch Who built the railways? Not the state I think there is a role for the state yes in zoning and some infrastructure where there are significant genuinely public goods (by no means all infrastructure). But house building should be left to the private sector. It is a private good.
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Dil@baggins_dil·
@consumerofmonch @vulpine2020 The infrastructure built by the victorians across trains, parks, sewers has lasted us centuries because they had the foresight to anticipate future needs, rather than merely keeping up. We need to get back to that mindset and we should not leave that simply to the private sector
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Yet another example of why people don’t understand the nature of the housing market. They think it’s somehow a free market and criticise the outcomes. They fail to understand how regulation operates and how it is the cause of the outcomes we see: high cost, low quality
Gerri Ellis@eastender99

@vulpine2020 Because all the wonderful mansions provided by Taylor Wimpey and Barratt, finished in highly flammable cladding, faulty fire doors & damp & mould problems are so wonderful???

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Lastlineofdefence@kieran_balmer·
@vulpine2020 About 50% of the planning permissions granted in England and Wales over the last five years have not commenced building. "Planning Constraints" aren't stopping large-volume housebuilding. The NPPF is biased in favour of it. Each LPA has Government targets to hit.
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Whig@vulpine2020·
@ClinchJim Can’t build anything anyway (private is best)
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Whig@vulpine2020·
Oh dear. Yes the market won’t provide enough cars or bread. Not in their interest 🤦🏼‍♂️
HerewardTheWoke@hereward1069

@vulpine2020 But the market will never build enough, it’s not in their interest

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@hereward1069 Absolutely nonsense. Are we short of cars?
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@eastender99 The reason we get low quality housing is due to hugely high land prices caused by planning constraints plus also environmental and other state imposed costs and regulations. This has also caused the highly concentrated market structure.
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Gerri Ellis@eastender99·
@vulpine2020 Because all the wonderful mansions provided by Taylor Wimpey and Barratt, finished in highly flammable cladding, faulty fire doors & damp & mould problems are so wonderful???
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Whig@vulpine2020·
@baggins_dil That’s an aberration from the postwar era
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Dil@baggins_dil·
@vulpine2020 State housing provided the majority of homes that are social housing today. To be clear I'm an overwhelming supporter of market action over government but Im aware social housing used to be something that was available to people who worked with aspirations not only the destitute.
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Whig@vulpine2020·
@PaulcBitcoin … of housing. Not a lack of state owned housing
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Whig@vulpine2020·
@PaulcBitcoin … not for building council housing which has significant downsides (traps people in locations). Also, we have lots of council housing - high by European standards. There are people in cheap housing in Zone 2 while young professionals can’t afford Zone 6! The problem is a lack
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PhD Buff Badger Dr 🚁@badger_buff·
@vulpine2020 Yeah. Manifesto isn't binding either. But Starmer probably does need to say: this party, at this time, with this bunch of f***wit backbenchers, with this leader, and with this manifesto, cannot form a functioning government, something's got to give, so we need a new mandate.
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@EdwardEGibbon Yes, slum clearance and also replacing bomb damage
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Edward Gibbon@EdwardEGibbon·
@vulpine2020 People also tend to ignore that net-housebuilding is much lower in the state-directed era than gross. They build a lot because they tear a lot down.
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Council housing:
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Dil@baggins_dil

@vulpine2020 In fact where I live in London in the progress estate was built by govt during the first world war and looks like a country village. Government can and has built beautiful things, in this case for munitions workers in the nearby armaments factories. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_…

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Dil@baggins_dil·
@vulpine2020 In fact where I live in London in the progress estate was built by govt during the first world war and looks like a country village. Government can and has built beautiful things, in this case for munitions workers in the nearby armaments factories. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_…
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@lafih22 This the kind of architecture you’re fond of?
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