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Starmer doesn’t seem to have learned any lessons from Sunak and his ill fated target setting. 1.5m homes in 5 years is a far stretch and, even if they managed to find the land, we don’t have enough people to build them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg1471rwpo.amp There has been a lot of development on arable land around Ashford in the last few years but the natives are getting restless and all of the current planning applications are being vigorously contested. Everyone wants new housing but nobody wants it on their doorstep. The same with green energy. There are several applications in around here for solar farms and all are attracting a lot of resistance. There is a large half built development south of Ashford where the builders, who were supposed to provide a dual carriage way on an existing single track road to help cope with the extra traffic, a school, shops, affordable housing and other amenities, have put in an application to withdraw those plans (clearly down to the cost although they are claiming that those plans are no longer relevant to the locality!). There is a plant to turn the old Folkestone race course into a garden town with between 8,500 and 12,000 homes (bigger than the neighbouring town, Hythe). Work is supposed to begin next year but we will believe it when we see it. Starmer’s plans are progressive and admirable, but it doesn’t look like we have the work force or the financial resources to build anything like that number in such a short time frame.

A worse reputation on racism than UKIP. https://www.britishfuture.org/reforms-racist-reputation-worse-than-ukips-in-2015-finds-poll/

Who would have thought it? Posted on the Musk thread too. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-scrap-car-crash-regulation-musk-b2664278.html

Surprise, surprise! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-scrap-car-crash-regulation-musk-b2664278.html

These days this is worthy of a mainline news story https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/zoe-ball-fatboy-slim-daughter-christmas-tree-accident-b2663752.html

Alternatively both of them could believe passionately in the way they want to play the game and stick to their philosophy. Whatever you think about Martin and his tactics, the people responsible are the people who employ him.

No one makes you read my posts. Why don’t you do us both a favour, and that goes to the other usual suspects, and put me on ignore? If you continue to read and respond to them it shows an element of either masochism or a strange need to find and respond to triggering impulse on here. It is not healthy.

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-inauguration-donors-2670450620

Are the 40% wrong? https://unherd.com/breaking_news/four-in-10-voters-think-reform-uk-is-extremist/ A home for conspiracy theorists too? https://news.sky.com/story/amp/conspiracy-theory-and-nationalist-groups-backed-reform-uk-at-general-election-13175679

If this is true he sounds more interested in the money rather than the job itself.

Starmer really needs to man up and stop pussyfooting around the issue. He seems terrified of becoming a target for Farage and Badenoch for going soft on Brexit whilst more and more people realise what an unmitigated disaster it has been for the UK and our economy. Brexit isn’t going to be overturned any time soon, but we need to find ways to make it work better for us (and the members of the EU).

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/baroness-catherine-meyer-facing-three-week-suspension-for-calling-peer-lord-poppadom-and-touching-mps-hair-13272136

The education level breakdown at the last election is interesting. https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49978-how-britain-voted-in-the-2024-general-election

Trump lied about food prices? Surely not! https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/12/13/trump-food-prices-groceries-inflation-down/76949414007/ https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-groceries/

No surprises here. https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49887-what-do-reform-uk-voters-believe Or here. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2008/nov/03/greenpolitics-liberaldemocrats

Surprise, surprise. The same old fish end up on the line.

This from a highly respected Reform MP. This man could hold a cabinet post in a few years time. https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/09/internet-baffled-lee-anderson-says-men-still-deal-somme-22153383/amp/

Apart from Queen Victoria, other famous people who married their cousins include; Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Edgar Allen Poe and H.G. Wells. As far as I know, none of them were Muslims. Also Queen Elizabeth 2nd married her second cousin, once removed. Sibling shaggers, the lot of them eh hypo! 🫣

Why should I be bitter? It just proves yet again that you are a narcissist. You continue to do my job for me. 🤗 Millions of people voted for Trump. It doesn’t make him any less of a lying, narcissistic scumbag.

I have just had lunch with an aquantance who lives locally. Lovely fella but he is a Trump fan boy which is a bit odd because he is also a devout Christian but seems to have a blind spot when it comes to Trump’s sexual assault conviction, his misogyny, his racism, his total lack of suitability for the job and his congenital lying. I’m not sure that Jesus was big on gabbing pussy or treating every else as inferior beings but hey ho. Not surprisingly he thinks that Farage is the answer to the country’s problems and will be voting Reform at the next election. He is “middle England” all over. God help us all if there are lots more like him out there.

But it’s not siblings it it? As I’m sure even you know, a sibling is a brother or sister and the debate isn’t about that. Personally I don’t have a view either way but, from years of experience, anything that you oppose is probably worthy of support.

They both do it and it is legal here so I expect some white Anglo-Saxons do it too. So what is your issue?

The whole human race is inbred Whitey. Granted, some more than others.

You really need to get a full time job, or at least a hobby. It is an opinion piece. I am sharing someone’s opinion. The colour of her skin has nothing to do with the criticism as well you know. On the other hand you were the one getting upset about footballers taking the knee against racism. Remember? Does the slogan “Black Lives Matter” still upset you? Hypocrite. “They” are only good for pulling my pints? Do you ever stop to think how stupid you sound? Clearly not. What is it with you people that you become so desperate that you try and distort reality in order to make yourself seem more important? We see it with Johnson and Trump and now we see it with people like you on social media. It’s like living in a parallel universe. One minute you are having a go at me for being woke and defending those protesting about racism and the next you are accusing me of racism. You really can’t see how odd that is can you? You made yourself look stupid on TUI and managed to get yourself banned. You haven’t learned any lessons have you?

Kemi seems to be determined to give Liz Truss a run for her money. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/kemi-badenoch-declares-lunch-for-34298950.amp