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What would blowing up the planning system look like?

Not sure I’d take the advice of someone who styles themselves “doctor dicks”

NevTheSweeper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:03 pm It's going to be a tough FOUR years. Deep public spending cuts will be the only way to go, all through this parliament. Reeves is done. Starmer is done, the government are done. It's a slow motion political car crash.....and it's all been self-inflicted.

I agree solely with the last sentence - it was all self inflicted, and done by the Tories/Farage and everyone who they conned into voting for Brexit.

Far from being done, I suspect this and the imminent Trump/Musk (mid)administration will be focusing minds everywhere that we really need to start making those EU ties closer asap. And while Starmer may not be saying that (yet) because he’s savvy enough to see it hasn’t hit critical mass, his actions show he’s heading that way and laying the groundwork.

This isn’t the last 10 years or so. Serious, smart people are in charge and there’s a plan that extends further than “what can we do to survive another 24 hours?”.