For me, knocking down poor-quality 1 or 2 story Victorian terraces would transform London Housing: but crucially we need gentle density nice-looking well-built mansion blocks to replace them, with nice courtyards where kids can play. Ensuring build & architectural quality is the missing ingredient.

Yes, but its not paranoia, people really are out to get him.

Traditional measure of 4* salary for mortgage and 1* saved for the deposit, on £100k salary means: no house for you of any sort at all

It is, in that how can your top 5% of earners not expect a house with space for 3 kids and an office? Vauxhall isn't Mayfair or Belgravia!

There are people on this site saying guys earning £80k are rich, when, they cannot afford a basic house or decent flat of sufficient size for a family.

If people are getting hung up on 5-bed, look, its £1m+++ for a tiny wrecked victorian terrace with a patio garden about 2-by-3m 3 bed in my part of London, by no means top tier London either, an area better than Vauxhall if less central.

One of the great tweets from blessed memory: ‘the Uk is a strange land where people think £100k is a very high salary but also £1m is a normal price for a family home’

He says how annoying the transit was, while not following the transit signs, and seemingly unaware the transit concept doesn't exist at US airports forcing everyone to go through customs even if you're transiting.

Of course they have noticed, hence the hysterical pile on

Tho Milei - he did score $40bn. Maybe $100bn. What's Starmer got?

Because a. its a govt function for all young adults, not just those in state schools, and for new arrived residents. And b. For councils specifically because they are the main point of govt contact at a local level, responsible for communities in a way central gov is not.

Grumpy... I think its possible to argue councils should all along have had information for newly of age citizens. Treating young adults with courtesy and respect, seems wise. And it doesn't cost much, unlike free bus passes, say.

His successor might be worse if Starmer does influence the choice of the next DG.

Or as likely as not treating the LDs and Greens as the apostate enemy, but potential allies in a govt.

This is client-state level subservience. Shocking interference in our internal affairs, whether the programme was right or wrong.

Demolishing the west way flyover in Hammersmith remains the one single thing that would fairly easily transform west London for the better.
So naturally we're at the concepts of a plan stage.

This framing that's its "anxiety": people want a functional criminal justice system that, if you need it, brings a shoplifter to court immediately after arrest - not in 3-4 years (which isn't fair on an accused). Will the govt be of any use if I need it?

"Quietly"?! Apart from the large advertisements in Westminster station so that ministers see it?