Again if you find yourself wondering about things like Judicial review because politicians and some right wing journos say this is the reason we can’t get things done, just remember this is complete bollix and the real reason is lobbyists, lobbyists, lobbyists and politicians who become lobbyists.

Again if you find yourself wondering about things like Judicial review because politicians and some right wing journos say this is the reason we can’t get things done, just remember this is complete bollix and the real reason is lobbyists, lobbyists, lobbyists and politicians who become lobbyists.

We had an opertunity to place a Berlin style license agreement on short term lets, you can’t put a property on the site or similar, without the number being approved by local council. Placing the onus on the landlord and Airbnb to self police. Under intense lobbying from Airbnb this idea was dropped

Also illegal under current RPZ rules which have stood for 9 years and are about to run out.

Exactly, so many people in the orbit of power have no idea what the majority of the population goes through. Delusional stuff.

What’s worse is they’re the types FFFG listen to, their think tanks recommendations around housing were copied verbatim and are now policy. 2 brothers living in large mansions managed to get policy changed to reduce apartment sizes and have no communal spaces or balconies.

Also mentioning the Collison brothers article from last week is a major alarm for me now.

This. Everytime. Blaming high wages & free healthcare in the 50’s for why Argentina is the way it is today? & leaves out, the military coup, right wing death squads, masses of people being disappeared and the IMF fucking then over like 3 times. And we’re next cos, what? FFFG are now left now, what?