Sure. But we need homes. There are always objections, they're always shaped roughly like this, and if we can't build on a *disused airfield* then where the hell is it appropriate to build? Just build some bloody houses!

It's a disused airfield. I think the landscape might possibly have changed already.

Yes. Yes it is.

It's a disused airfield. There is no solution that will make everyone happy - if there were, we'd have done it, politicians love those. Agree we should have more social housing but we still need to push it somewhere, and I'm sorry, but prioritising the view of a disused airfield over homes is sick.

just saying, we're not all bitter, some of us are actually very cool and chill

Homeless families don't sit well with me I'm afraid - perhaps there are better places to build than this, i don't know the site, but every proposal attracts objections shaped roughly like this, made by people whose homes were greenfield too once. I care less about the view than those families.

I wonder if the "choose not to work for 30 years" is leaving out any details about that arrangement.

Not all divorcees.

that's a good day!

also this was a 12 hour day of Doing Various Things and that doesn't feel like a sustainable timescale for Thing Doing if I'm honest?

to be absolutely transparent about this I haven't done enough of the thing

context here

I have quite a lot to do today, I'm afraid, and feel strongly that people are allowed to casually express opinions without an obligation to back them up with peer reviewed citations

On this occasion we may have to agree to differ

We also know that not everyone who uses the phrase means it in that sense or, indeed, accepts "there are trans people" as a factual statement, and therefore there are probably more sensitive and less politically charged ways of discussing these things

It's what he thinks his job is, certainly, but I don't think it's the purpose it was created for