Yes but mostly for wasting my time defending the Green Party, a party I do not even like.

Practical sense? Where are you even going to find the £2 trillion? Bear in mind it would amount to doubling debt or tripling tax revenue.

The idea is not correct. Not every asset is worth buying. Governments having to build houses would just result in even fewer houses built. All of this is empirically proven by looking at basically everyone in the world who’s implemented it.

lol are you going to keep asserting this without engaging with any of the substantive arguments for why putting it in a manifesto is a pointless waste of time at best

It’s a poor investment. If we had the £2 trillion or whatever that it would cost to do this there is an almost endless list of things we should spend it on rather than buying up every rental property in the country.

Quite straightforwardly, this policy if actually implemented would tie the housing stock to the government’s fiscal position which would almost certainly constrain house building even more.

It’s just a random socialist aspiration with no actual benefit.

We’re talking about literally trillions of pounds for the former!

As for the latter, I think the number of lives saved would be rather marginal as we already have some of the safest roads in the world. The primary benefit is significantly reducing energy consumption.

I’m not them but:

- making private landlords illegal:
involves either abolishing private property or spending insane (unimaginable) amounts of money legally purchasing it all

- 55mph limit
I’d personally be fine with this but I’m unsure if it’s worth how off putting it is to lots of normal folks

Genuinely believe that a huge advantage at the next election will simply be not being a miserable bastard and looking like you’re having a good time, which Kemi is uniquely bad at. Of course the real reason for this take is that I don’t think Angela Rayner will be the disaster everyone thinks.

lol it is but supposing the security is necessary it’s less of an eyesore than this especially with the landscaping

British Museum entrances scheme unanimously approved Pavilions to replace tents and barriers currently used by museum visitors

www.building.co.uk/news/british... found it

They were recently granted planning permission to replace that arrangement with permanent structures

Should I not expect the Greens to be better on clean energy than other parties

Seems irrelevant, is anyone here arguing for Labour’s immigration policy?

Labour generally has, I’d say. The government’s energy policy has been pretty good.

Reform opposing renewables and green energy is not particularly surprising to me. The Greens should live up to their name.

Us owning our energy infrastructure is a good thing but do we have the money to shun foreign capital? Is anyone local actually proposing building this solar farm instead? Or are we just opposing it and not proposing any alternative?

NIMBYs often cite reasonable sounding constraints for everything that just add up to nothing getting built. That’s how we got where we are today.

If we are to ever get rid of fossil fuels we need industrial scale solar, wind, batteries, and much more. “The community” can’t build that, you need private capital and finance to do it. Otherwise we’ll just use gas forever.

Firstly she does oppose “industrial scale solar farms”, secondly if you oppose an actually existing thing in favour of a thing nobody is proposing you’re just being disingenuous.

It’s about the practical outcome of nothing being built (the solar farm is not built because the specific ownership structure they want isn’t being proposed)

No that’s not the opposite of NIMBYism, unless the local community has the money and is proposing to build that solar farm instead which it doesn’t and isn’t

I don't think the children need to be our contemporary they just need to exist

Lidls have those e-ink displays instead of price tags because in some countries they do dynamic pricing where the cost of stuff changes throughout the day

Counterpoint is the UK retirement age is 67 and the pension net replacement rate is lower than all of Scandinavia

yeah, why conceal it

True of the UK too, right?

this is the only official thing I've seen

the real victims of labour's incompetence are pro-bedtime leftists

Surely Windows VMs on macOS don't have the necessary hardware access to make this work