Today's discussion about the news
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Lol ok. I think you have a bit of an axe to grind here, you got really worked up about the Brianna Ghey story a while back.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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I think the UK has a massive prejudice against 'non-standard' construction which seems to be anything other than brick and block cavity walls and tiled roof. Getting a mortgage for anything els seems to be a bit of a hassle, even modern timber frames are still frowned upon by many (maybe seeing all those US shows with timber housing being put together with a nail gun on site in a few hours puts people off or seeing them flattened by a hurricane or tornedo).
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ok, hadn't realised the uk was already national performance based, but if there're still local policies that seems like an area ripe for elimination of variation/red-tape
i'd think the anti-prefab sentiment was more in the older population based on the issues that arose with post-war housing, perhaps insurers also have a part to play if they're making life hard for innovation based on that history
cut red-tape, stop nimbyism, encourage innovation, oh, and don't build where it'll get flooded or fall off a cliff
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well you whine about labour
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I've got a life hack of how to not get annoyed with people whining in the Brexit thread.
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I know a lot of politico and journalist types have been moaning about how pretty much no politicians are mentioning Brexit in the election campaign, and that Starmer in particular over the last 2 years has been criticised for largely keeping quiet. Again, I think this has been deliberate on his part to keep the Labour leaning Leave voters onside. Will be interesting to see what his approach is post election. I suspect he will upset a lot of leave voters when his actual intentions regarding UK/EU relations become clearer.
There is no way he will attempt to join the EU again I am sure, but I expect some key moves to start to re-align us with the EU will start to materialise fairly quickly.
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This.
I predict there will be a series of 'technical improvements' to the terms asap, then the 2025 exercise will bring a few more. Lots of baby steps, each one of which goes mostly unnoticed, but in time lots of little baby steps will add up to something noticeably better. No big bang, but enough to make people realise that our future lies in re-establishing mutually beneficial arrangements, whatever form they might be, EEA, or whatever.
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Building Regs or planning? The former is just a national standard. Planning has a national and local component, but I don't think you can reasonably have a single national planning policy without local guidance on application. There is a proliferation of 'additional requirements' which different Local local authorities have added to the planning process but that's not connected to how you build, just where.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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What if it prevents VAT on private schools?
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Que sera sera.
FWIW, I suspect there will be a number of challenges (legal and otherwise) to that proposal. It'll be interesting to see where it ends up.
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A much cheaper way of doing it would be breaking up the fees, so you pay for "food", or "sports equipment" or "teaching materials" and, where relevant "accommodation", or any other things that don't fall under VAT, so you only pay a small proportion of VAT (overheard a parent discussing their school's approach)
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I think most of those things are extras anyway.
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As I think I've said previously, for the financial tax gain, I think it might take up quite a bit of political capital for it to have any effect other than fulfilling something that Labour feels is the Right Thing To Do to combat privilege.
It's not going to have any direct effect on me, as I'm retiring from school at Christmas. Even if it did add an extra 20% to school fees, I think my school would survive, albeit with some adjustments over time.
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You ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait until after the election 😇
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Happy to acknowledge an axe to grind - males of any sort do not belong in female sport or female "spaces". Every survey confirms that females are overwhelmingly on my side on this one.
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But why would people on here want the UK to join a reactionary right wing organisation like the EU? 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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You should read the news more carefully. The centre right EPP are comfortably the biggest party. The hard right had a good night by their standards but they are a very long way from controlling even the EU Parliament let alone the other two branches of the EU. For a start, RN, Vox and AfD all in different parties within the Parliament.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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and as nationalists, the hard right tend to hate each other
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I think that is just not true anymore.
There is an awful lot of collaboration between all those leaders. Think Orban or Farage being invited by Trump as just some examples.
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Looks reasonably balanced to me.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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You should get your head out of the sand. Direction of travel...
And look what is happening to the national governments over there. For example Italy and Netherlands. France won't be long once they have their election.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
they may well engage in a bit of mutual posturing, but their tendency is to destroy, not build
it's always a zero-sum game for trump and his ilk, which makes true collaboration tricky
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The dividing line is around whether you think the problems of the world need to be solved internationally or nationally. I don't think they sit there thinking they hate every other country.
It's more they think that big international organisations and agreements shouldn't be prioritised over local concerns. So they hate the EU, NATO etc.
The other side is that globalists believe that a lot of the worlds problems, trade, climate change, defence etc, requires international co-ordination that can bounce bad actors into acting in a more positive way.
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Things have moved a bit to the right. People are bored of centrists and it's easy to promise when you've never had to govern. Netherlands I'll give you. Italian politics has always been chaotic. Counting your chickens on France. Never did understand what your weird problem was with Macron.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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See also Reform/Conservatives.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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What's weird about not agreeing with someone who was pushing the EU to take a harder line with the UK during the Brexit negotiations? Directly against our interests - and yours. So if anything it's your attitude that is weird.
Anyway, for someone who fancied himself as being a bit of a Napoleon figure, this song seems appropriate for poor Emmanuel just now 😊
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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I thought you didn't care about Brexit.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
