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Because no one wants to go into construction for some reason and a lot of apprentices quit so there’s no economic case for it. Hence bussing in a load of Eastern Europeans. So there’s a lot of competition for workers among sites. There’s been shortages in construction for ages and not much done...

Oh totally. I’m no fan of big builders, but they follow the economics and planning legislation. Mostly that means flats for one and two beds plus family homes. People buying homes generally don’t want terraces is the belief I think. And they’re probably right. Also trouble with single people...

Country continually making attacks on this countries infrastructure, aiming to destabilise our democracy and economy, and literally killing people with impunity on our soil while saying how awful we are “is not a threat”. Man this thread just keeps on giving.

That’s not true. They build as fast as they can get parts and labour. There’s two entirely separate departments. One spends all day looking for strategic land, the other tries to find staff and materials to build out. They’re not leaving money on the table in case house prices go up. And you can...

Yeah it definitely happens, see my comments about the work remotely abroad stuff and everyone claiming Brexit meant it couldn’t happen. But equally making trade harder will obvious exacerbate issues and make it harder for firms on the edge. All without any clear benefit.

Yeah that’s the conspiracy theory but the fact is land buyers will keep buying plots where they find them, the reason it increased over the pandemic was shortage of labour making it harder to build. I’ve talked to people at places like Taylor Wimpey and Barratt about exactly this and they think...

Political parties do things all the time. Whether I agree with them all is a different matter.

There’s no evidence of land banking really. Developers build as fast as they can in general, the bottle neck is usually labour in my experience. Flood plains are planning law, though I agree, but there’s lots of non flood zone stuff to build on. If you look at this it’s very clear the private...

23,201 for QPR I think. Can’t see is beating that.

Both legal and illegal immigration has gone up. And both because of Brexit. Illegal because we no longer have a deal with mainland Europe and legal because we’ve opened up to other countries as they said they would. Not that immigration causes any of these problems, they’re all linked to...

It’s not rocket science. Build more houses and use the state to build them. Private developers have pretty consistently completed something like 400k/year for decades. Clearly there’s no much more capacity there. The drop came when local authorities stopped building, so start that up again...

Well to be pedantic, they’re only in power because of Brexit. Any normal time and half these jokers wouldn’t be anywhere near cabinet.

But France is in the EU? And the NHS has declined since we left? All of these related to immigration which IIRC has gone up post Brexit.

I may have. I thought you were saying because you’d travelled to Europe concerns about goods import issues weren’t valid. Why has this poor management just so happened to coincide with us leaving the EU? I mean it’s hardly surprising that you leave a customs Union and supply chains suffer.

Do you import a lot when you’re travelling?

I haven’t read it.

Grendels approach to geopolitics.

🎶 Just the two of us 🎶

Seems like a lot of this stuff Brexit isn’t the cause but isn’t exactly helping either.

I’ll be honest, I’ve had no issues getting vegetables recently…