Cant help but imagine how this would br playing out right now if it was an opposition MP. Fucking Tory sleaze every fucking time it seems.

I’m gonna assume @Roujin has been keeping abreast of this stuff, but I don’t know whether everyone else has seen it – the press aren’t giving it a huge amount of coverage.

Our glorious Tory overlords are pretty much scrapping the planning process for new buildings in the UK.

They’re calling it ‘streamlining’ and ‘encouraging developers to build’. What it actually means is removing rigorous checks on what gets built and where. Speaking to architects around here, they expect it to lead to slums in our city centres, and quickly. High density, low quality, housing. Tower blocks worse than the ones we’ve been demolishing over the past decade or two.

The deal is this: The Government write a set of guidelines for buildings in urban areas. Adhere to those guidelines and you don’t need planning permission. At all. The guidelines in the white paper so far are shit. Tiny concrete boxes for poor people to live in. 

It’s pretty horrifying. This guarantees a race to the bottom for developers to build the cheapest, nastiest buildings. People will die in these cheaply developed homes when things go wrong and they’ll end up depressed and unhealthy from living in them when things go right. You’d think the Tories had learned nothing from the Grenfell disaster.

Fuck imagine cancelling all planning laws because Dominic Cummings couldn’t get a man shed built outside.

Oh man it completely fits together!

It’ll take long enough for the effects of this to be felt that the Tories will probably be out of power and happily blaming it on Labour.

poprock wrote:

I’m gonna assume @Roujin has been keeping abreast of this stuff, but I don’t know whether everyone else has seen it – the press aren’t giving it a huge amount of coverage. Our glorious Tory overlords are pretty much scrapping the planning process for new buildings in the UK. They’re calling it ‘streamlining’ and ‘encouraging developers to build’. What it actually means is removing rigorous checks on what gets built and where. Speaking to architects around here, they expect it to lead to slums in our city centres, and quickly. High density, low quality, housing. Tower blocks worse than the ones we’ve been demolishing over the past decade or two. The deal is this: The Government write a set of guidelines for buildings in urban areas. Adhere to those guidelines and you don’t need planning permission. At all. The guidelines in the white paper so far are shit. Tiny concrete boxes for poor people to live in.  It’s pretty horrifying. This guarantees a race to the bottom for developers to build the cheapest, nastiest buildings. People will die in these cheaply developed homes when things go wrong and they’ll end up depressed and unhealthy from living in them when things go right. You’d think the Tories had learned nothing from the Grenfell disaster.

BRO I AM AWARE OF THE FUCKING PDR AND I AM BARE FUMING M8. 

These fucking pricks, right, cos they're pricks. Fucking real pricky pricks. They take their shit money what their ancestors were paid to get rid of their slaves and they like put it in bricks and mortar because the price of property ONLY ever goes one way. 

Then the economy goes in the shitter and all the fucking pricks who have money in empty offices, suddenly decide that actually what they want to do now is turn their unused office space into accomodation for people, since there's a housing shortage and all.

FIRST OF ALL - Do you think that an office in a business park is a suitable location for anyone to live? 
SECOND - These places have no access to private outdoor space for the residents
THIRD - OF COURSE ALL THESE SCHEMES ARE MAGICALLY CRAMMED FULL OF TINY FLATS TO MAXIMISE LETS
FOURTH - If the economy picks back up you have to build another business park or office block somewhere that's less optimal since your offices and factories are now flats, you stupid fucking cunts, but of course you probably have stock invested in construction companies who will bid to do that work so fuck it all. 

The level of latent rage it summons within me is frankly beyond measure, this is the most flagrant example of FUCK YOU I WANT MY RETURN ON INVESTMENTS AT ANY COST I can ever recall. It makes me sick to see people just thought of as "tenants" with no though paid to quality of life or suitability of accomodation. Some of these places have rooms with no fucking windows in for fucks sake, are you fucking kidding me, etc. 

Watch this and then invest in my coop guillotine manufacturing business. 

Only scummiest little bootlicker architects and contractors would ever put any bids in to work on these projects FYI. So you can imagine the quality of work will likely be commensurate with the bare minimum investment the redevelopment is given. 

When do we start eating the rich? I'm reaching a point where I feel like I could easily look the other way while the hoarded wealth of some is forcibly redistributed back to the people.

The best we can hope for until then seems to be the guardian reader / guilt assuaging centrism. “Not as bad as that lot” could be the slogan, with “lot” being a substitute for anyone of your choice

Roujin wrote:

Watch this and then invest in my coop guillotine manufacturing business. 

Great video that Rouj. A real eye-opener.

acemuzzy wrote:

Lads lads 250 likes for a tweet questioning Andrew Neil / The Spectator, I'm basically famous now touch me

Now approaching 500 likes on a separate tweet, including three applauding animated gifs. This makes me a Twitter celebrity, right #WheresMyBlueTick?

Who says puns don't pay?

https://twitter.com/acemuzzy/status/1292458526720368643?s=19

Have a like to make it 450.

Wooo

Oh shit, that was you!  I said "nice", out loud when I saw that earlier.

acemuzzy wrote:

Here he is, Billy big baws

Reporting yer tweet now. Naughty step for you. Time out.