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No, you are just losing the argument so making stuff up. We do what modern countries do, build more infrastructure. HS2, HS3, Varsity line, Crossrail 2 and so on.
No-one asked what population we could sustain if we halted all infrastructure investment. |
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Is there? Lots of empty houses, you mean? Or by "space" do you mean countryside which might as well be paved over as it isn't doing anything useful?
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Of course I mean "space". If by "countryside" you mean fields which aren't doing anything useful then there is plenty of space for a few new towns to help spread the economy around the country. It's not just a matter of building houses and see what happens, you need the employers, infrastructure and facilities otherwise you are just creating a sink estate.
Honestly, I try to laugh at the sheer ignorance of people, but it's actually scary. How many remainers actually believe that the countryside is just sitting there doing nothing and can happily be filled with "a few new towns" and the roads leading to them? I'm reluctantly beginning to think that they do, in fact, hate this country, and only think of it in monetary terms. Can anyone on the remain side convince me otherwise? Please tell me you don't want to see the country become one huge urban area. |
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Fill your boots: http://www.emptyhomes.com/
Who owns them? What strate are they in? "Latest Government data suggests that there are over 200,000 homes that have been empty for over six months. Some of these may not stay empty (if they are on the market, or are being renovated). But others are stuck empty, perhaps because of inheritance issues or because their owners are holding on to the property hoping for a rise in its value before selling it." |
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What veneer would that be? I just remember all the second homes being burnt to the ground purely because the owners were not Welsh.
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You do know that grass is a crop, right?
Even if we cut immigration to zero for the next 10 years there is still an argument for a few new towns to spread the economy around the country, allow young people to get the home they deserve and reduce overcrowding in some areas. |
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Yes but its not that simple is it which is why I asked the questions:
Who owns them? What strate are they in? "Latest Government data suggests that there are over 200,000 homes that have been empty for over six months. Some of these may not stay empty (if they are on the market, or are being renovated). But others are stuck empty, perhaps because of inheritance issues or because their owners are holding on to the property hoping for a rise in its value before selling it." The point is that there are a lot of empty properties, and some small changes to the law would motivate people to get many of them occupied quickly and at zero cost to the government. |
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You do know that grass is a crop, right?
Honestly, I try to laugh at the sheer ignorance of people, but it's actually scary. How many remainers actually believe that the countryside is just sitting there doing nothing and can happily be filled with "a few new towns" and the roads leading to them? I'm reluctantly beginning to think that they do, in fact, hate this country, and only think of it in monetary terms. Can anyone on the remain side convince me otherwise? Please tell me you don't want to see the country become one huge urban area. |
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And it's a crop that we have no shortage of. We do have a housing shortage.
Even if we cut immigration to zero for the next 10 years there is still an argument for a few new towns to spread the economy around the country, allow young people to get the home they deserve and reduce overcrowding in some areas. Perhaps we could build new towns in Scotland, as they seem not to mind FoM. Trouble is, these towns will soon be underpopulated, as people move out. Quote:
So you value grass above people?
Were you unaware of this? Fields are as important as any other work environment. Anyway, people like countryside - who are you to tell them they should have more towns instead? |
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The grass belongs to someone and is used to feed animals which feed people. Were you unaware of this? Fields are as important as any other work environment. Anyway, people like countryside - who are you to tell them they should have more towns instead? |
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Sorry I couldn't provide a detailed survey for all 200,000 properties, which is obviously the only thing which would satisfy you.
The point is that there are a lot of empty properties, and some small changes to the law would motivate people to get many of them occupied quickly and at zero cost to the government. If the Government or LAs don't own them they can't do anything and if you read it properly it quite clearly says that at 200,000 properties are private ownership in the midst of being sold, renovated or in probate. Unless of course you were thinking of doing what the USSR did to my ex-boyfriends grandparents after the war in the East Germany and just take their property away from them! The issue is to build more and bring up to standard social housing not concern ourselves with privately owned property that is empty. "Latest Government data suggests that there are over 200,000 homes that have been empty for over six months. Some of these may not stay empty (if they are on the market, or are being renovated). But others are stuck empty, perhaps because of inheritance issues or because their owners are holding on to the property hoping for a rise in its value before selling it." |
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We were a joke already when that spineless turd Cameron capitulated to the swivel eyed loons (his advisor's words) and ran that stupid calamitous referendum.
I didn't like the timing of it but that aside I welcomed the referendum. My side of the argument lost. I'll get over it because at the back of my mind was another question... If we weren't already in the EU, would I vote to join it? Absolutely not. The country voted out so let's get out. |
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You do know that grass is a crop, right?
Honestly, I try to laugh at the sheer ignorance of people, but it's actually scary. How many remainers actually believe that the countryside is just sitting there doing nothing and can happily be filled with "a few new towns" and the roads leading to them? I'm reluctantly beginning to think that they do, in fact, hate this country, and only think of it in monetary terms. Can anyone on the remain side convince me otherwise? Please tell me you don't want to see the country become one huge urban area. I do ![]() Cows, sheep and horses eat it and then 'we' eat them or drink their milk or use their skins for clothes and shoes, except the horses of course they do their own work on the farms, not to mention the wildlife the grass sustains and the ecosystem. Which is why we have the 'greenbelt'. I think the problem we have today is a lot of people think that the World revolves around computers and stock markets it doesn't. They wouldn't exist if we didn't have grass! |
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So you value grass above people?
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We need more grass more than we need more people.
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We need more grass more than we need more people.
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We need more grass more than we need more people.
As long as we have plants to produce oxygen and trees for wood, we'll be better off than if we concreted over the country side and let this country become a nightmare vision of over crowding and pollution like in Blade Runner. |
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I have far too much of it in my back garden. It's nothing but an annoyance. I really should concrete over the whole lot or replace it with artificial turf.
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I do ![]() Cows, sheep and horses eat it and then 'we' eat them or drink their milk or use their skins for clothes and shoes, except the horses of course they do their own work on the farms, not to mention the wildlife the grass sustains and the ecosystem. Which is why we have the 'greenbelt'. |
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No, it isn't. We have the green belt to protect against urban sprawl. So that we build over other bits of green instead of the nearest bits of green to London.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=th...lZSOHFD9XGM%3A |
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Then you really would be a fool. People who have got rid of their grass and concreted over it have raised their risk of being flooded. Where do you think that all the rainfall goes?
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I don't want you to provide a detailed survey because it is clear you cannot do that.
If the Government or LAs don't own them they can't do anything and if you read it properly it quite clearly says that at 200,000 properties are private ownership in the midst of being sold, renovated or in probate. Unless of course you were thinking of doing what the USSR did to my ex-boyfriends grandparents after the war in the East Germany and just take their property away from them! The issue is to build more and bring up to standard social housing not concern ourselves with privately owned property that is empty. "Latest Government data suggests that there are over 200,000 homes that have been empty for over six months. Some of these may not stay empty (if they are on the market, or are being renovated). But others are stuck empty, perhaps because of inheritance issues or because their owners are holding on to the property hoping for a rise in its value before selling it." |
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You do know that grass is a crop, right?
Honestly, I try to laugh at the sheer ignorance of people, but it's actually scary. How many remainers actually believe that the countryside is just sitting there doing nothing and can happily be filled with "a few new towns" and the roads leading to them? I'm reluctantly beginning to think that they do, in fact, hate this country, and only think of it in monetary terms. Can anyone on the remain side convince me otherwise? Please tell me you don't want to see the country become one huge urban area. The country is spacious enough, it's just the bits where all the money, jobs and prospects are to be found are all in one corner. One reason why Germany can better absorb movements in population is because it has prosperous developed local economies in many regions. |
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Are you one of those "democracy is great so long as you get the result you want" types?
I didn't like the timing of it but that aside I welcomed the referendum. My side of the argument lost. I'll get over it because at the back of my mind was another question... If we weren't already in the EU, would I vote to join it? Absolutely not. The country voted out so let's get out. To address your first point, I fully respect our representative democracy in parliament. I do not respect democracy by referenda as they are divisive and have deeply misleading campaigns (on both sides), they appeal to people's emotions and fears; they're acrimonious and confrontational. And before you make out that this is because my side lost, that is not the case. I opposed referenda as far back as 1997 when I was 16 and we had the horridly divisive Welsh devolution referendum. That delivered the result I wanted, as it happens, but it should have been a parliamentary decision imv. |
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No, you are just losing the argument so making stuff up. We do what modern countries do, build more infrastructure. HS2, HS3, Varsity line, Crossrail 2 and so on.
No-one asked what population we could sustain if we halted all infrastructure investment. We'd better get building then for another 25 million people,12 lane motorways and trains everywhere that'll sort it. |
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