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Maybe pushing to pay for private school already involved finding the "bit more"?

Some prep schools are 9k a year ish so on the border of affordability for real salaries.

Because due to ever increasing house prices and a lack of cheap debt nobody can afford the shit houses they build these days?

Define undeveloped. Woodland, farmland, nature reserves?

Most of the development land round here is owned by housing firms or pension funds but still being actively farmed by the original farms.

That wouldn't stop land banking, the companies hold the land till they want to work their next development, this prevents competition from developing the land and restricts availability inflating prices.

Are you advocating compulsory asset purchases?

We did an understairs cupboard door in a Dulux satin colour match to the walls which were Matt. It looks great in anything but super bright light which this rarely gets.

I go match the wall with the fronts and do the skirting to match the stairs.

Edit: great as in "not texturally different"

I don't see house building ever not being an issue when large private firms hoover up plots and control the pace at which houses are built. All this is for the purposes of their long term plans of sustainable profit enlargement and house scarcity price increases. Not making nice efficient houses available.

Also, the longer they hold off the more likely any old planning application gets approved just for " more houses have been built". This is why we end up with 700k studio flats and massive estates with only 12 detached mansions with 7 bedrooms.

The FT having a really interesting politics update segment.

It certainly beats the traditional talking heads

https://youtu.be/ck_mEd73_aQ?si=lXayyW9BdNZ5OCSr

Havertz got a goal and an assist.

In this team he plays the heskey role

Hob based kettles. As little as half a cup and boils quickly on the power boost setting

I'll bite.

No mobile phones have been phones since 2007. They are mobile computing devices that also have telephonic capability.

I can't remember the last time I used my mobile to call anyone.

Love this. I'm assuming it's not a cal.28 movement?

This would be the funniest mergers and acquisition by any UK company ever.

Can a political party and a private company merge?

If you devolve planning surely if the local council chooses to block planning that's their choice?
Irrespective of housing I think we need to concentrate on moving wealth and jobs out of the south east.

Do you want the glossy fairlight pdf, or the design docs from the engineers?

Yep. Was just pointing out that the whole thing is on trust and that trust can be well placed or misplaced but just because something is in a manifesto doesn't mean it's good or will be done well (Brexit) and just because something you want isn't in the manifesto doesn't mean you won't get it (BOE rate setting independence) basically the manifestos are worthless and take on trust the party of your choice.

This time round it's not even that complicated, you just vote for whichever party will help ensure a Tory doesn't win in your constituency

All politics is faith/trust based, sometimes you get Brexit as was delivered to the UK population, other times you get BOE independence.

Do you mean Starmer?

He's already got Russia and Israel to deal with. I doubt he needs another intervention.

Tudors are an additional zero outside my watch budget.

Age limits to the lord's and the nations 2nd chamber are interesting.
It could end up being like the US senate and with more power than the lords. It would change how legislation gets scrutinised though.

Still waiting to hear more about the rumour of labour planning to stuff the lord's to the gunnels. Maybe that's just based off the age limit thing and refilling seats. Will it be the govt. having power to fill seats at their own choice rather than some sort of democratic system?

Fair.

Regarding the big box of things though, these places ship hundreds of random items at a time so it's still one big box of imported things being sent over.

To be fair I'm all for them not deselecting the nutters and replacing them with centrists.

Let's shift our politics to the left where labour can be the new right and the greens etc can be the left

Apparently I've hit middle-age.

I'm finding that bimetallic GMT rather attractive.

No idea. It's just in my AliExpress hold list. It's basically eBay at this point so have no concerns using it and avoiding the UK seller markup.

I'm personally considering a soto fusion trek

We got a Blanco.

My dad found a bargain one for about £120 which was preferable to the £500+ of some.

Surely this is supporting another party and grounds to be de-selected?