The Conservative Party

[Vic]

Dorries 1st decision in office - allow a Grade 2 listed building to be demolished. However you try and pull down a statue of a slaver and she will be on you like a ton of bricks.

Dorman Long tower demolished in overnight explosion

Historic England's protection of the 1950s Redcar building was quashed by the culture secretary.

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Good riddance. A thing of beauty it was not.

It took Historic England years to decide to list one of Britain's best brutalist buildings (Preston bus station) so I've no problem with this decision.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Dorries 1st decision in office - allow a Grade 2 listed building to be demolished. However you try and pull down a statue of a slaver and she will be on you like a ton of bricks.

Dorman Long tower demolished in overnight explosion

Historic England's protection of the 1950s Redcar building was quashed by the culture secretary.

www.bbc.co.uk

Functional piece of architecture without it's function becomes just a decaying eyesore. If the land was being turned over for development into residential and the building had more charm I could see an argument for repurposing it as a central meeting place with local offices (assuming this was technically possible) bar or gym or combination but the land is just being changed from one industrial use to another.

Industrial buildings easily become deathtraps when not properly maintained, can't see the rationale of saddling the onerous costs and liability on companies involved in renewable energy or cash strapped local government for this building.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Functional piece of architecture without it's function becomes just a decaying eyesore. If the land was being turned over for development into residential and the building had more charm I could see an argument for repurposing it as a central meeting place with local offices (assuming this was technically possible) bar or gym or combination but the land is just being changed from one industrial use to another.

Industrial buildings easily become deathtraps when not properly maintained, can't see the rationale of saddling the onerous costs and liability on companies involved in renewable energy or cash strapped local government for this building.

Yeah - lets knock down the Palace of Westminster - its in a poor state of repair and we will incur onerous costs refurbishing it - moved them lock stock and barrel to a new site outside Coventry where the M1 and M6 meet - use the land for some luxury flats.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yeah - lets knock down the Palace of Westminster - its in a poor state of repair and we will incur onerous costs refurbishing it - moved them lock stock and barrel to a new site outside Coventry where the M1 and M6 meet - use the land for some luxury flats.

It’d make less toffs want to be politicians. They only know Coventry from Lady Godiva history lessons.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[bluethrunthru]

Liz Truss' final international trade deal?

British gangs and international rivals join forces to increase cocaine sales

Analysis by National Crime Agency finds more than 1,700 UK criminal groups involved in drug supply

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[Vic]

Yeah - lets knock down the Palace of Westminster - its in a poor state of repair and we will incur onerous costs refurbishing it - moved them lock stock and barrel to a new site outside Coventry where the M1 and M6 meet - use the land for some luxury flats.

Daft post. If it wasn't still functional there would be no need for a new site to fulfil its function. I take it that it's irony and you equate a concrete lump with the HoP.

Or it's a Clarkie, a dying tradition.

 

[Vic]

So...

Tories going to bail out or nationalise?...

Gas suppliers?
Fertiliser manufacturers?

No CO2 for stunning animals... just as well abbatoirs don't need so much CO2 as they're short of staff after Brexit.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

So...

Tories going to bail out or nationalise?...

Gas suppliers?
Fertiliser manufacturers?

No CO2 for stunning animals... just as well abbatoirs don't need so much CO2 as they're short of staff after Brexit.

No Vets either..... my neighbour has a small holding raising lambs ... now has a 160+ miles round trip to an abattoir with no guarantee that it will be open next week .

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Yeah - lets knock down the Palace of Westminster - its in a poor state of repair and we will incur onerous costs refurbishing it - moved them lock stock and barrel to a new site outside Coventry where the M1 and M6 meet - use the land for some luxury flats.

I'd prefer they turned it into a museum and hold only occasional sessions there.

I much prefer the in the round parliament format than the shite adversarial two benches that encourages the heckling.

It’s hardly fit for purpose if you can't fit in all MPs without standing in the aisles.

Not really a valid comparison to a disused lump of rotting concrete built in the 1950s though.

 

[Vic]

Is this (Brexit apart) the first time that a government department has been named after a vacuous political slogan?

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has become the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Probably reflects the financial gerrymandering of cutting grants to councils and direct funding bids "won" by Tory marginal seats.

 

[BobKowalski]

So...

Tories going to bail out or nationalise?...

Gas suppliers?
Fertiliser manufacturers?

No CO2 for stunning animals... just as well abbatoirs don't need so much CO2 as they're short of staff after Brexit.

Not sure, but either way it’s going to cost billions.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Is this (Brexit apart) that a government department has been named after a vacuous political slogan?

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has become the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Probably reflects the financial gerrymandering of cutting grants to councils and direct funding bids "won" by Tory marginal seats.

I wish I knew what ‘levelling up’ actually meant. How will we know if we have been ‘levelled up’?

Boston has been given £25m and it is to be spent on a walkway From the railway station (which nobody uses) into town. Our town has many, many empty shops (a quick count last week - we had 12 empty shops in 75m along Strait Bargate) and yet this new ‘walkway’ will include a row of shops. Yet our A & E is the same size it was 20 years ago and they have closed the A & E at Grantham, Skegness and Spalding added to which there has been a huge increase in the population over the last 20 years. So what will this £25m do for us?

 

[Manc in London]

Is this (Brexit apart) that a government department has been named after a vacuous political slogan?

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has become the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Probably reflects the financial gerrymandering of cutting grants to councils and direct funding bids "won" by Tory marginal seats.

The pompous Michael Gove heading up a department with a crappy, meaningless slogan. A great fit, to be fair.

 

[Manc in London]

I wish I knew what ‘levelling up’ actually meant. How will we know if we have been ‘levelled up’?

Boston has been given £25m and it is to be spent on a walkway From the railway station (which nobody uses) into town. Our town has many, many empty shops (a quick count last week - we had 12 empty shops in 75m along Strait Bargate) and yet this new ‘walkway’ will include a row of shops. Yet our A & E is the same size it was 20 years ago and they have closed the A & E at Grantham, Skegness and Spalding added to which there has been a huge increase in the population over the last 20 years. So what will this £25m do for us?

I am not sure about the application process for the funding but would expect the Council submitted a bid based on a proposal (i.e. a walkway). Out of all the things they could have bid for they asked for a walkway. Goodness me.

Interesting to know how the Council, in the bid document, explained how this would 'level-up'. There are some many other things they could have done. I am guessing a clueless senior councillor came up with that. It's the kind of thing in which officers have to no say in.

 

[ballbag]

Corrupt

33k emails from one account? I'm surprised whoever hosts his emails hadn't blocked his email acct or at least trigerred max defers for that type of shit long before he was fired. That's more than most domains get blocked for spam in this game.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I am not sure about the application process for the funding but would expect the Council submitted a bid based on a proposal (i.e. a walkway). Out of all the things they could have bid for they asked for a walkway. Goodness me.

Interesting to know how the Council, in the bid document, explained how this would 'level-up'. There are some many other things they could have done. I am guessing a clueless senior councillor came up with that. It's the kind of thing in which officers have to no say in.

On the basis it includes a stairwell. :)

 

[Vic]

I wish I knew what ‘levelling up’ actually meant. How will we know if we have been ‘levelled up’?

Boston has been given £25m and it is to be spent on a walkway From the railway station (which nobody uses) into town. Our town has many, many empty shops (a quick count last week - we had 12 empty shops in 75m along Strait Bargate) and yet this new ‘walkway’ will include a row of shops. Yet our A & E is the same size it was 20 years ago and they have closed the A & E at Grantham, Skegness and Spalding added to which there has been a huge increase in the population over the last 20 years. So what will this £25m do for us?

I can't find anything online about a £25m walkway...

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Did I read somewhere that the EU countries were not seeing the same huge price rises that we are? They are making a lot of noise about the lack of CO2 again the EU are not having the same problem. Perhaps one of our EU supporters can give us first hand info.

EU has problems we have crises.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Did I read somewhere that the EU countries were not seeing the same huge price rises that we are? They are making a lot of noise about the lack of CO2 again the EU are not having the same problem. Perhaps one of our EU supporters can give us first hand info.

EU has problems we have crises.

First rumblings I’ve heard over here about the shortage of HGV drivers. The age profile of drivers is a problem and we need to attract younger people into the haulage business, perhaps with higher wages.
This may lead to inflation.
As you see from this article we need another 4,000 immediately.
There is no mention of Brexit in the article, however it does point out the fact the UK are changing the rules around driving tests and road time which our government are resisting, saying it’ll make the roads less safe.

Truckers say lack of respect a key issue in staff shortages

Road freight firms say a lack of respect for the essential role of lorry drivers is to blame for a growing crisis in driver recruitment.

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