50 %
6.3 %
34.4 %
3.1 %
6.3 %
Labour should not be taken in by YIMBYism
My concern is that Labour’s policy is leaning towards the emerging sub-culture of ‘YIMBY’ism, a loose alliance of neoliberal thinktanks, very online and angry men, and younger people in professional jobs frozen out of homeownership. They put forward a simple proposition – building more homes will reduce price and de-regulating planning will mean more homes.
The problem with this view is that, it is not clear that simply adding more housing units will seriously address the profound crisis of affordability (it is just one part of what needs to be done), and further the de-regulatory zeal completely ignores the role of planning in creating places that people actually want to live in and which are more equitable than what the ‘market’ would determine left to its own devices.
Proposed changes set out in the Senedd reform bill include increasing the number of members from 60 to 96 and ministers from 12 to 17, plus scrapping the first-past-the-post element of the voting system.What is this, some sort of "bring Sunak back from the dead" campaign? Hard to think of something that's less of a priority for voters than this. That's 3 MSs for every constituency that has only one MP. And by closed lists too- open lists give you the chance to reject mediocrities who've hacked their way to the top of your preferred party's list, without having to vote for another party.
Set-up costs are estimated at about £8m and additional running costs for the expanded parliament are expected to be up to about £18m a year,
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 2:40 pmThat's what struck me. Stormont arguably has too many MLAs that could barely function as a councillor and the number of them could be cut to around 60 on their own without Wales trying to play catchup. There's currently five MLAs to one MP per constituency in NI.Proposed changes set out in the Senedd reform bill include increasing the number of members from 60 to 96 and ministers from 12 to 17, plus scrapping the first-past-the-post element of the voting system.What is this, some sort of "bring Sunak back from the dead" campaign? Hard to think of something that's less of a priority for voters than this. That's 3 MSs for every constituency that has only one MP. And by closed lists too- open lists give you the chance to reject mediocrities who've hacked their way to the top of your preferred party's list, without having to vote for another party.
Set-up costs are estimated at about £8m and additional running costs for the expanded parliament are expected to be up to about £18m a year,
One of the good things about PR is that you don't have to win to get representation. If I'm a Tory voter in most of South Wales, I might reasonably think that a Tory MS might understand my concerns better and choose to approach them. Under the regional system, I get one already. I don't need to have one in my actual constituency.
This looks very Northern Irish- have shedloads of politicians to keep everyone busy. Wales doesn't, as far as I know, have the same problem as NI with "community activists".
]Anning was sharply criticised for his comments following the Christchurch mosque shootings, which occurred in New Zealand on 15 March 2019, during which 51 Muslim worshippers were killed. He claimed that immigration of "Muslim fanatics" led to the attacks, and that "while Muslims may have been victims today, usually they are the perpetrators". Anning also stated that the massacre "highlights...the growing fear within our community...of the increasing Muslim presence."19 people put Mr Anning as their first choice in the whole of Queensland, though in fairness his party did pretty well.
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