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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090

    Cummings seems keen to be thought of as a kingmaker.

    Is it not more basic? “ I woz right everyone else is wrong?”

    I don't think so or it would have come out earlier. He just wants to have a crack at making a new king and is on the campaign trail. Not sure which king though.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    Cummings seems keen to be thought of as a kingmaker.

    Is it not more basic? “ I woz right everyone else is wrong?”

    I don't think so or it would have come out earlier. He just wants to have a crack at making a new king and is on the campaign trail. Not sure which king though.
    Well Gove was the guy who originally brought him into the Tory party and gave him a chance.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Isn't his wife the awful daily mail columnist?
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190

    Isn't his wife the awful daily mail columnist?

    For clarity,

    Is that a columnist at the awful daily mail?

    Or an awful columnist at the daily mail?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    morstar said:

    Isn't his wife the awful daily mail columnist?

    For clarity,

    Is that a columnist at the awful daily mail?

    Or an awful columnist at the daily mail?
    Both. She was awful when she was at The Times too.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    Isn't his wife the awful daily mail columnist?

    Well rumour is Gove was entertaining a mistress in his grace & favour flat so that status may change.
  • pinkbikini
    pinkbikini Posts: 876
    Anyone commented yet on Williamson’s comment about the ‘chilling effect’ of cancel culture in universities?

    Always the fireplace salesman...
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,678

    Cummings seems keen to be thought of as a kingmaker.

    Is it not more basic? “ I woz right everyone else is wrong?”

    I don't think so or it would have come out earlier. He just wants to have a crack at making a new king and is on the campaign trail. Not sure which king though.
    Well Gove was the guy who originally brought him into the Tory party and gave him a chance.
    I feel like if he succeeded on getting Gove into number 10 it would prove he can get brits to vote for anything.

    (obviously I'm aware he wouldn't actually need to win a general election for that to happen)

  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    How do I vote for Gove to be Conservative leader?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited May 2021

    How do I vote for Gove to be Conservative leader?

    Don’t you f@cking dare.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,622

    How do I vote for Gove to be Conservative leader?

    The ultimate in levelling down.
    I think they are capable without external help though.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    Surely the key test of any leader is if they can look less awkward than Milliban eating a bacon sandwich. My money is not on Gove in this contest. But this is just a hunch.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660



    Aaahahahahaha tell me countryside people aren’t c unts 💀💀💀
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    Cummings seems keen to be thought of as a kingmaker.

    Is it not more basic? “ I woz right everyone else is wrong?”

    I don't think so or it would have come out earlier. He just wants to have a crack at making a new king and is on the campaign trail. Not sure which king though.
    If Cummings wants to be king maker he wouldn’t be burning all bridges
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498




    Aaahahahahaha tell me countryside people aren’t c unts 💀💀💀
    Why?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    “Threat of new homes” come on mate, work that one out yourself.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited May 2021
    Why on earth would you want the countryside to be full of new builds?

    Mind you, 400,000 homes isn't much if you spread it across the whole of UK. 40 new homes in each parish.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Cheap innit.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Shout out to the easily offended flagger ✌🏻

    (Sometimes swearing is for exaggerated affect - relax lol )
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498

    “Threat of new homes” come on mate, work that one out yourself.

    It's all on greenbelt land. Developers are creaming themselves as it's a lot cheaper then developing on brownfield sites.

    They are proposing 5,000 new homes on greenbelt west of Coventry based on dodgy ONS figures. They are counting students in, but not out again.

    I would not have so much of an issue if it was affordable homes but it will be a raft of 6-700k homes with 'affordable' housing at 350k-ish.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    lol what's the actual threat of new homes for people in the countryside?

    Think the logic through there.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,625
    edited May 2021
    Is the wider infrastructure in place?
    Often not.

  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498

    lol what's the actual threat of new homes for people in the countryside?

    Think the logic through there.

    Fair enough. What do you class as rural though? There's only a thin slither of land between Coventry and Birmingham now. This ruling means that it's all fair game now.

    I'm sure the people who live in this gap would probably class it as rural.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,193

    “Threat of new homes” come on mate, work that one out yourself.

    It's all on greenbelt land. Developers are creaming themselves as it's a lot cheaper then developing on brownfield sites.

    They are proposing 5,000 new homes on greenbelt west of Coventry based on dodgy ONS figures. They are counting students in, but not out again.

    I would not have so much of an issue if it was affordable homes but it will be a raft of 6-700k homes with 'affordable' housing at 350k-ish.
    Yep, I agree and it is a point Theresa May has made, an exodus from the Cities to wreck the Countryside. It's also been exaggerated now by Covid.

    All these developers do is knock up little $h1t boxes with no gardens.

    I'm guessing the places being developed won't be near the Cameron's of this world.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195

    Cheap innit.

    Yes but why is it a good idea and why is it surprising that people don't want them in the countryside?
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited May 2021




    Aaahahahahaha tell me countryside people aren’t c unts 💀💀💀
    If anything, you're marking yourself out to be one by giving it so little thought.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    Cheap innit.

    Yes but why is it a good idea and why is it surprising that people don't want them in the countryside?
    No idea if it's a good idea. I just think the idea that seeing new homes near where you live as a "threat" is four letter word behaviour.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090

    lol what's the actual threat of new homes for people in the countryside?

    Think the logic through there.

    Why not just build some flats over London's parks? If you did it well, you could even include some space for sport on one of the levels.

  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195

    Cheap innit.

    Yes but why is it a good idea and why is it surprising that people don't want them in the countryside?
    No idea if it's a good idea. I just think the idea that seeing new homes near where you live as a "threat" is four letter word behaviour.
    But it was the Times who said it was a threat, not people in the countryside.

    Also - why would it not be a threat? Just because you like living in a town, people who enjoy rural life in countryside may see view the building of new homes as a threat to their way of life. I don't see how that can be seen in a negative light, unless you are projecting your 4-letter-word behaviour onto them, for some reason?

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    lol what's the actual threat of new homes for people in the countryside?

    Think the logic through there.

    Why not just build some flats over London's parks? If you did it well, you could even include some space for sport on one of the levels.

    My point ---->




    Your point ---->

    Sure, why not build them?

    What's threatening about new houses ffs?