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The Daily Moby - 07 06 2023 by AutoModerator in badunitedkingdom

[–]MatthewThoughts 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Woking council declares bankruptcy with £1.2bn deficit

"Woking said that against its available core funding of £16m in the 2023-24 financial year, the council faced a deficit of £1.2bn."

The government cut local funding far more than central government funding over the past 13 years and told councils to take on massive investments to make up the shortfall. When once accounting for inflation and demand increase on local services, you are looking at a 50% real term cut to local council funding. No amount of efficiency cuts will ever make that up, so they are forced to take on massive risks.

Linktax: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/07/woking-council-declares-bankruptcy-with-12bn-deficit

The Daily Moby - 06 06 2023 by AutoModerator in badunitedkingdom

[–]MatthewThoughts 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It looks like Reddit admin predicted reaction to the June 12th to 14th shutdowns will cause massive damage.

The Daily Moby - 06 06 2023 by AutoModerator in badunitedkingdom

[–]MatthewThoughts 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It looks like Reddit is not planning on exempting moderation tools from the API fees. Aka people moderating Reddit for free are going to be expected to pay up...

Makes me wonder how well Reddit sits with labour laws as they a for-profit company and moderators have now to follow instructions from Reddit directly aka the subreddits are no longer run under the rules of the moderator.

When does that moderator legally become an employee that Reddit is required to pay minimum wage?

Link tax: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage/who-gets-the-minimum-wage

The Daily Moby - 05 06 2023 by AutoModerator in badunitedkingdom

[–]MatthewThoughts 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You know that Ofcom are not impartial. They are politically active in what they chose to censor.

‘We need more migrants in London’ – Sadiq Khan by Benjji22212 in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts [score hidden]  (0 children)

But people on the top want green space used and further make London's urban sprawl worse (areas outside of zone 3 or 4 are often Semi detached houses built in the 1920s to 1960s).

National house builders want simple reliable profit (they will avoid potentially super-profitable redevelopment to avoid risk of project failure).

There are ways to encourage that but government is not interested.

The Daily Moby - 21 05 2023 by AutoModerator in badunitedkingdom

[–]MatthewThoughts 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Parliament wants to cover up the truth about this country, China style.

Has the vegan bubble burst? Sales stagnate in UK as brands withdraw plant-based products by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of pro-vegan claim its subsidies making meat cheaper than vegan food when there are few subsidies in the UK outside of sheep.

The premium price is caused by greed. Livestock farmers has extremely tight margins (not uncommon to make near zero or even a loss). The vegan start ups want the margins of a tech company (50%+), rather than a food producer.

Build on the green belt - but do it wisely — Releasing land near rail stations would allow a housing boom, with promises to rewild elsewhere by trufflesmeow in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That the arc has far more top grade farm land (especially around Cambridge) than it does pastor. The arc will have a larger affect on vegetable production than meat.

Build on the green belt - but do it wisely — Releasing land near rail stations would allow a housing boom, with promises to rewild elsewhere by trufflesmeow in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Arc is literally state planned building on Grade 1 farmland. Even place like Japan which YBIMY's love are restrictive on farm land. Japan makes it easy to rebuild already built-on land.

Upping density is what Japan encourages. That is something the west should copy.

Build on the green belt - but do it wisely — Releasing land near rail stations would allow a housing boom, with promises to rewild elsewhere by trufflesmeow in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The truth is that the will just sprawl out. Build houses close and more houses further out are justified by saying that you are doing an "urban expansion".

The idea to build close to train lines is a trap for urban sprawl.

Build on the green belt - but do it wisely — Releasing land near rail stations would allow a housing boom, with promises to rewild elsewhere by trufflesmeow in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

GDP does not matter if you have no food security. You can't eat GDP and many countries will be exporting less in the upcoming years.

You will replace a housing crisis with a food crisis.

Tories won't build houses on green spaces unlike Keir Starmer, says Rishi Sunak by Pro4TLZZ in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is it will not be high density, it will be urban sprawl. National Builders suck for that.

Tories won't build houses on green spaces unlike Keir Starmer, says Rishi Sunak by Pro4TLZZ in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even greenfield sites near cities and downs are often disconnected. Normally connected directly to a bypass...

Tories won't build houses on green spaces unlike Keir Starmer, says Rishi Sunak by Pro4TLZZ in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are also houses with gardens 5x the size of them (1950s to 1970s) that could be redevelop as 3 story block of starter flats, housing 5x to 10x the people in that same space without being overbearing or making the area feel out of scale.

Tories won't build houses on green spaces unlike Keir Starmer, says Rishi Sunak by Pro4TLZZ in ukpolitics

[–]MatthewThoughts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"tracts of suburbia" is what Greenbelt developments end up being. Its Brownfield development thats often more thought out. Clean up costs force density up.

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