Keir Starmer: I’ll end ‘bashing of London’ and get more homes ‘built at speed’ in city if PM
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-general-election-labour-london-sadiq-khan-housing-crisis-b1160534.html
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Keir Starmer: I’ll end ‘bashing of London’ and get more homes ‘built at speed’ in city if PM
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-general-election-labour-london-sadiq-khan-housing-crisis-b1160534.html
Posted by insomnimax_99
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Bashing London (and it’s populous) is part of my identity. Nobody will take that away from me.
Bad news for the bores who have made hating London a significant part of their personality.
London is great, so are many other UK cities (apart from Slough).
More housing is fine, but if I learnt anything from playing SimCity as a kid we also need more hospitals, doctors surgeries, prisons, etc… They keep building higher, and higher near me, but with no additional infrastructure, or services.
As a northerner when I look at London I think yeah, they need more investment
I’ve been saying this for years, Tories have been deliberately attacking London. Will be good to finally have the mayor, London MPs, councils, and PM all aligned to same party.
‘I’ll end the bashing once I stop bashing Diane Abbot’*
*I vow/pledge/promise etc…
Cute.
What about those of us in the south west who are totally forgotten?
Now now Sir Kier: you’ve got it won, don’t open your trap and attempt to ruin in. Just stay silent like you did when the government were shafting us through covid and not taking energy firms to task and stroll across the finish line like a good little stooge.
Oh for F-
*gestures at the rest of the country*
HELLO??
Bizarre from a Northerners POV. The one place that doesn’t need more investment is London. Whatever issues they think they have are nothing compared to the ghost towns up north.
Investment in London feels like a vicious circle at this point. London generates the wealth which carries the rest of the country, so more money is poured into London to enable it to better generate that wealth, rather than investing in the rest of the UK to give it a chance to improve so it doesn’t need subsidising
Well, if there’s one thing the last few years have taught us, it’s that whacking up new build flats quickly cannot possibly cause any problems for those who end up buying them…
Also the “straight fight between labour and tories” is a huge problem. It’s why our politics and options are so shite. Both options suck.
On past form, you’ll do exactly what you’re told to do.
Stop London bashing? Typical politician promising more than he can deliver.
I think the “bashing” comes from the fact that nationally we hear about everything that London gets, like Crossrail.
So I live in Manchester and my in-laws live in Sheffield. I think there’s some stat that says these two places have the worst connectivity of two industrialised cities in the UK given how close they are (roughly 30 miles). To get between them you have three choices when it comes to driving:
1) The Woodhead, mostly single lane through the Peak District. Takes about two hours from centre to centre.
2) The Snake Pass. Mostly single lane through the Peak District, constantly closed because the road keeps slipping, not open to HGV as a result. Takes two hours from centre to centre.
3) The M62 and M1. You have to basically drive North East to Leeds and then South to Sheffield. Quicker than the first two options but twice the distance.
The trains are a joke. One takes an hour, the other and hour and a half, both expensive.
Meanwhile, London gets Crossrail. A new multi billion pound project, one that keeps getting tv shows made about it during the building process. It gets people from one side of one city to the other a bit quicker.
I know it’s apples and oranges but it’s not hard to see why people are annoyed.
You can no longer quantify the “North” when comparing with London and the south east. Look at the investment in Leeds and Manchester. Private money will flow to where the best returns will be. Always have, always will. Labour are not paying for these homes.
I’d just like to have in East Anglia a faster train to Cambridge and a faster line from Norwich to Ipswich and into London from there
With hybrid working you could have so many more people living an hours journey outside of London with them only needing to be in once a week, but instead it’s all about building houses and flats in London
More homes in London basically translates to more ugly as sin high rise money laundering scams where 90% will be completely unaffordable to the average Joe anyway and owned by offshore companies wanting to hide money in the UK. Articles like this always talk about building more as though that’s the only thing that matters. How about building afforable or decent houses that people actually want to live in? Houses in the last twenty years, for the overwhelming majority, look like they were designed by an architect who graduated with a first in Lego and hates everyone who lives in anything they build.
He needs to get more homes built at speed across the country not just London