tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post2675395073142278060..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Yvette Cooper is a useless fuckwitMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-31112440051781829482007-11-19T20:51:00.000+00:002007-11-19T20:51:00.000+00:00I'm with the Victorians on this one. A loose colle...I'm with the Victorians on this one. A loose collective or craftsmen would get together, buy up a new 'street'; each craftsman would do the digging, the brickwork, the carpentry, the roofing, the pastering etc for each house, depending on his (or her) particular skills. <BR/><BR/>Once the construction was finished, each would get one or two or three houses to be sold on. That way, you get a nice smart street where all the houses look the same, but miraculously, some would have super plasterwork but dodgy everything else. Or tip-top brickwork but shaky plumbing and so on.<BR/><BR/>This idea that a group of self-builders try and get things done, without any mutual interest is doomed to failure. Sarah Beeny did a series on it.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-47672233358936539542007-11-19T19:21:00.000+00:002007-11-19T19:21:00.000+00:00Yvette Cooper is indeed as you say.The selling of ...Yvette Cooper is indeed as you say.<BR/><BR/>The selling of land and the "granting" of planning permission is a nasty, corruption magnet.<BR/><BR/>It would be nice if land was granted planning permission but sold off as a series of small lots, so people, yes, PEOPLE could buy one or two plots, or even a a terrace and develop, as opposed to always handing it to huge developers.<BR/><BR/>The planning gain can be used to develop the roads, lighting, drainage whathaveyou.Roger Thornhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01153744692290896812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-59985910066120268952007-11-18T11:53:00.000+00:002007-11-18T11:53:00.000+00:00Jeez, it's been a decade or three since I've been ...Jeez, it's been a decade or three since I've been to Saltburn. How goes it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-78807295397058791052007-11-17T21:58:00.000+00:002007-11-17T21:58:00.000+00:00Ah, Peter, always so sane and wise.I think I need ...Ah, Peter, always so sane and wise.<BR/><BR/>I think I need some more of your super-calm, bigger-shoe worldly wisdom.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe just an evening in the Marine Hotel. <BR/><BR/>Sigh.<BR/><BR/>ThomasThe Creatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05637444084451209530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-25588847123174380252007-11-17T21:05:00.000+00:002007-11-17T21:05:00.000+00:00Calm down Thomas, you'll make yourself poorly and ...Calm down Thomas, you'll make yourself poorly and you don't want to have to go to hospital, do you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-75841169147994507652007-11-17T18:55:00.000+00:002007-11-17T18:55:00.000+00:00But Mark, she is a perfect product of NuLab. So by...But Mark, she is a perfect product of NuLab. So by definition she is a card-carrying member of the let's-see-how-best-can-we screw-this-up-at-maximum cost-to-the-taxpayer club of clods who currently constitute our government.<BR/><BR/>That's what they do!<BR/><BR/>Just think of her husband, incontestably the single most vile product of the NuLab school of dysfunctional government.<BR/><BR/>Lamp post, piano wire anyone?<BR/><BR/>There are, seriously, moments when despair seems too hopeful.<BR/><BR/>I need more drink.<BR/><BR/>ThomasThe Creatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05637444084451209530noreply@blogger.com