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Can't we just set up our own party? Who could do worse than this lot? Here's some policies Restrict bank lending to sensible levels of income Introduce rent controls Build truck loads of houses Pour loads of money into science/medicine/engineering etc. Less people to Universities and more people doing trades Renationalise the railways and reduce the cost for people to use transport Regulate trades Tax the very wealthy and very wealthy companies. If they're global and won't pay tell them to eff off Just ban tiktok etc. etc. etc.

I've notice a lot of junior miners have gone down the swan recently, costs to build the mine have spiralled

He looks worried.

Struggle to work out why they need to be productive. We spent the last 50 years automating the crap out of everything.

I'm personally guilty of behaving like a young person when I was young Shocking

It's like I say they're down the gym more. Always friendly.

See loads at the gym

Relocate Britain to China. Two birds, one stone.

This is what a lot of people have done and how they've made money from property. Which is fine in a rising market but I don't think people who bought fixer uppers last year are going to get their money back for a long time.

How much do you discount the value of your time when it comes to fixing upping though? You realise you're basically a labourer taking on a second job? Why not just become a builder if that's what you want to do with your life? It's fine if you haven't got much invested in your career, but say you're running a business, do you really want to spend your time watching youtube videos and doing diy?

+1 on this. Common story.

According to homealliance 1 in 5 newbuild gardens get flooded. That figure isn't going to get less as time goes on.

DEFRA on their own accuracy on surface water flooding. "It can happen many miles from a river or stream, and in unexpected locations simply because there is nowhere else for the rainwater to go." Where does it go? Downwards. Where can't it go? Upwards. Are SUDS measures in these newbuilds built at the bottom of the water runoff adequate for the changing climate? Buy one and you'll find out in the next decade.

Another great counter argument. I guess you also think that a cladding crisis can't happen because people allowing it have MSc's or is it that they have only BSc's? Yeah I'm quite set. Seeing as you love appealing to authority rather than responding to simple facts, my 15 years experience in locations analysis, corresponding PhD, and postdoc, says new builds on the whole, are built in crappy locations. As you said, that would make me an expert rather than an "expert".

Ok, well lets just destroy this VI nonsense with the simple principle that water flows downwards https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-09-14/mystery-leak-causes-damaging-waterfall-through-hillside-properties There are many more examples but you can go look them up yourself

Ah yes, the experts get this right all the time don't they https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-09-14/mystery-leak-causes-damaging-waterfall-through-hillside-properties How about you explain to me why you would trust an "expert" over looking at a topographic map like that and drawing an obvious conclusion that it's a stupid place to buy a house?

They say it's innacurrate. Let me just explain it to you in simple terms Do I need to be a planning expert to explain to you that living a few hundred metres from a major A road and a mile from a radioactive site is not a great location? All you're doing is whatabouttery. What are your qualifications, have you ever worked on identifying locations for planning purposes like I have? And since when do planning experts get it right? Do you agree with houses being built on floodplains?

Oh I missed this Yes of course the long term flood risk map is 100% accurate and up to date right? You've seen that they give lots of disclaimers about surface water flooding which is updated sometime AFTER the development has been built. How many newly built houses do you think have fallen foul to sw flooding in the last few years? You only need to look at the topography of that to know that you're basically living in the equivalent of a roof downpipe with regards to surface water for the surrounding areas. What do you think the flood map will look like in a decade? The site does not have an intersection with the A46 but it's closer to the intersections and a B road than the town of Bingham isn't it? Enough to make it a far worse location than all the houses that are build on the South side of time. I ask again why do you think the north side of town is an industrial area? And regards to radioactivity, once again you're closer to it than the town, and it's not going to go away for thousands of years. But hey, it's energy efficient, so fill your boots.

That's what should have been done in the last decade. New towns, new roads, new railway links, adequate drainage infrastructure, enough facilities for the residents. But of course it wasn't done because it's Britain.

"The MOD has confirmed that RAF Newton is one of the sites where radioactive waste is buried under the ground. The risk to humans is unclear, but the radioactivity of the land has a detrimental effect on the climate. "

Only 200 metres from a major A road with intersections and 1km to a radioactive site, not to mention bordering a floodplain Great location that Edit and don't you just love the way it's sandwiched between bits of higher ground, what could possibly go wrong in this day and age? Why do you think they didn't build Bingham to the North of it's current location and the industrial location is on the northern side of town?

It's a generalisation. You'll have a fair task finding one that's built on decent land. I know this because I worked specifically on analysing the possible locations for the the damn things using big data, which is not vague at all. Which is why I can point out Flitwick while you're just running off offended because someone happens to be pointing out the obvious. Wrong person to claim is ill informed on this when I can recall just about every ABC1 location in the South of England off the top of my head and know the topography of it.

I'm asking for examples from now not 20 years ago. I already made this point. I can give the person who's flounced a helping hand, Flitwick has been a rarity, because it's almost a newbuild town. There's no infrastructure to support them being built in developed towns/cities.

New builds were ok a couple of decades ago, a lot were well located. As I say I had one too. There's hardly any decent land left because the infrastructure hasn't been built to support the new housing developments like it was in the last century,

And what? The decent land has been built on already. You came up with a house built 19 years ago as an example of a "new build"