“There were some rare bats we were legally obliged to protect, but we just had to drive the tracks right through the woods. We couldn’t come up with any viable solutions except an ugly shed, then when the council complained about how ugly it was, we went over their heads to central government and lawyered them into submission. Wow that was expensive, huh.”

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Making short term rental completely illegal is not a good idea as it would impact on local tourism etc, but they should allow (or force) councils to limit licences for short term rentals to a certain percentage of housing.

I take it from the article that Times Radio specifically asked Louise whether Starmer had a problem with women as part of an interview - she’s hardly going to say yes!

Times Radio probably asked her based on Duffield’s shit-stirring and the fact that Sue Gray is a women. That makes two women who have left the government, therefore Starmer must hate all women! A pretty dumb conjecture by the Times, but I guess that’s the right wing media’s job.

If those rich people are willing to move to shitholes like Dubai to save a few quid in tax, they were probably going to do it anyway.

This is getting boring; there’s been so many articles about this over the last few weeks.
Starmer’s and Reeves’ statements about this do not totally contradict. They’ve both said they want to invest, but they’ve decided that they won’t staple themselves to the £28bn figure due to the Tories fucking shit up in the economy. I can’t say I necessarily agree with this, but that’s what has happened.