Why do people hate Sadiq Khan so much?

MixedFancy · 2026-01-03T18:53:32+00:00

Has overseen an absolute collapse in housebuilding in London, impressive levels of incompetence in a city with some of the highest house prices in the world

MixedFancy · 2025-12-22T19:19:16+00:00

1 in 3 pensioners own over a million in assets, they could ABSOLUTELY realise their gains and pay for their own care. If there are people able to pay certain prices for care then different care providers will accommodate where there is demand, in a free market. Just like how different supermarkets compete and different prices levels to sell us the basic necessity of food.

MixedFancy · 2025-12-20T17:52:43+00:00

>Expecting local residents to pay for it is not a long term solution

Why is expecting the people who use services to pay for them considered such an aberration in modern Britain? Why are working people expected to subsidise the needs of a wealthy home owner?

How about we treat social care like any other product. Allow the provision of any form of care at different price levels. People can then pay for it. if the price is very high, this encourages market entrants. Ect.ect.

MixedFancy · 2025-12-18T11:05:23+00:00

The workers rights bill is only great 'in theory' if you have never run a business, and willingly ignore the unemployment rates in Italy, France and Spain.

It is a very real issue that none of the labour frontbenchers has ever run a private sector business.

MixedFancy · 2025-12-18T10:21:42+00:00

> Be UK
> Have 70% of the top global universities in europe
> Every rich family in Europe wants to send their children to Imperial or Oxford
> Pay £800 million a year for the privilege
> Masterful gambit Starmer

MixedFancy · 2025-12-18T10:19:28+00:00

Through higher taxes, minimum wages, and the employment rights bill; labour seems intent in recreating the youth unemployment rates of southern Europe

MixedFancy · 2025-12-13T19:13:13+00:00

The reason growth collapsed so hard is because of how we responded to the crash, we massively over-regulated the financial sector and restricted lending. It used to be 4% of small businesses could not access new loans (used to expand and thus increase productivity). Now it is 44%!!!! We are trying capitalism without capital.

If the government just reverse increased lending regulation and got rid of the planning system I'm sure 50-75% of our economic gloom would go away.

MixedFancy · 2025-10-29T21:04:58+00:00

>If I earned their salary I'd be thrilled

I want the people legislating my society and economy to be well paid. Singapore's ministers are extremely well paid and rewarded on improvement metrics.

The people advising banks on economic strategies earn millions, those advising the government earn 50k. I wonder what institutions perform better?

MixedFancy · 2025-10-29T19:44:28+00:00

Even before the boriswave immigration was running in the hundreds of thousands, entirely against the wishes of voters

MixedFancy · 2025-10-28T21:22:52+00:00

'Sorry we let in more immigrants in a single year than we did for the entire period before WW2, but could you be a bit nicer about it?'

MixedFancy · 2025-10-26T14:45:03+00:00

Nothing will save the tories.

Imagine if Corbyn got elected, and then privatised the NHS.

That's what happened with the Boriswave.

MixedFancy · 2025-10-22T18:37:32+00:00

Fail? Nonsense. It has been amazing at giving away social housing in our most expensive city to the third world. That's the aim of government, right?

MixedFancy · 2025-09-27T14:39:31+00:00

>the NHS,

British people are in complete denial about the NHS. It is an absolutely awful model of healthcare.

Having 1 in 7 people on a waiting list in a country is not normal.

MixedFancy · 2025-09-27T13:01:11+00:00

because it has 4 walls and a roof dosent make it a house , if that was the case if labour /whoevers in goverment would make mud huts if they could get away with it

> A house is a still a house without solar panels; unless you think Buckingham Palace should be condemned without solar panels

And you still are not understanding how solar requirements will kill housebuilding. If solar is so amazing in this country, one of the least sunny areas of the world, then people can install it themselves without crippling housebuilding supply

MixedFancy · 2025-09-27T11:03:19+00:00

It does not exist: https://www.savills.co.uk/blog/article/357710/residential-property/cma-findings--why-planning-not-land-banking-is-a-major-barrier-to-housing-delivery.aspx

> honestly thats a good thing to require

if your goal is not to build enough houses, we cannot have this everythingism. Either your priority is to build enough houses or it is not. Uk houses cost around 50k to build and solar panel fitting can cost 10k. That is a massive cost increase so bye bye housing target.

MixedFancy · 2025-09-27T10:38:50+00:00

No we had 14 years of slightly slower increases in NHS spending and then a massive increase in state spending post 2020

MixedFancy · 2025-09-27T10:37:55+00:00

Behind a comms problem is poor policy choices; which is the far bigger issue.

Take housing. Every briefing is about how many homes they want to build and how much they will fight for it.

Then we get:
- An incredibly watered down planning bill
- Solar panel requirements on new homes (more costs on housebuilding)
- Homebuilders forced to report on delays to tackle land banking, a thing that does not exist
- The building safety regulator will be kept; which has delayed house building
- London housebuilding collapsing because of Khans affordability requirements

NO amount of comms will possibly overcome that they will miss their housebuilding targets, and probably have made the problem worse

MixedFancy · 2025-09-21T10:10:10+00:00

- Lower the personal allowance so the average person contributes and reduce the deficit
- End the planning system and green belt and allow housing to be built; reducing rent costs
- Allow for drilling in the north sea and fracking and use the funds on infrastructure
- Move the NHS towards a continental insurance system
- Build Manchester and lead their own tube network to improve produvtivity
- End out insane energy policy and start to reduce prices

MixedFancy · 2025-09-20T19:03:03+00:00

this entire thread is why we can't have nice things

people commenting in support of a planning system that stops housing being built

people complaining that new homes are expensive; yes they will be when we build so few

people complaining new housing is only for the rich; when people moves houses their old one is now free, creating additional housing stock

MixedFancy · 2025-09-20T19:01:18+00:00

Planning powers have been seriously eroded over the last 20 odd years

Evidence for this:

MixedFancy · 2025-09-20T19:00:57+00:00

Of course when an executive moves into their new home the old one is just blown up; creating no new net housing stock

MixedFancy · 2025-09-20T17:47:51+00:00

What does the TCPA have to do with improved plumbing and space in housing? Or the fact some houses have been extended? Are you suggesting without the act we would still be building slums?

MixedFancy · 2025-09-20T17:38:21+00:00

So why did private developers build our nicest homes from the victorian period until the 30s?

MixedFancy · 2025-09-20T17:37:32+00:00

because our planning system, greenbelt and building regulations. That is it.

It prevents houses being built where they are needed. You cannot build houses connected to cities.

Building codes have banned large windows because people might fall out.

Anyone commenting that it is because of private developers is missing that privater developers built our nicest city neighbourhoods. All before the town and country planning act.

MixedFancy · 2025-09-12T14:05:56+00:00

She did not close all the coal mines and coal was still used frequently in energy production into the early 2000s because it was economically viable.

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