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What the actual fuck?

This makes me angry.

The two finest innovations of postwar British planning were green belts and urban conservation areas.

Lol. There’s no hope for rational discourse, if this is the starting point of your opponent.

Green belts (and restrictive planning policy more generally) have been a disaster for the country. They are directly responsible for our crushing housing costs, poor housing quality, terrible urban design, and the stranglehold over our built environment that is held by a handful of gigantic, pointless building companies.

https://txtify.it/https://www.economist.com/britain/2017/02/11/britains-delusions-about-the-green-belt-cause-untold-misery

I think it’s about using the platform she currently has to poison the waters, and shift the Overton window as far as possible in favour of the far-right, in the short time still available to her. Lucrative book deals etc. are just icing on the cake.

John Major actually managed to govern reasonably competently.

Sunak’s main selling point is simply that he’s not actively trying to destroy the country, most days. I mean, yes that’s a huge step up from Johnson & Truss, but…