there is an enormous amount of building that has gone on in London for years. Drive in on the A2 and you will see new housing. Check the population – but also levels of recent immigration when the census comes out. Remember 1million people were given visas last year, overseas students were allowed to bring dependents. 35K of Channel migrants so far this year, filling ordinary hotels so that now places are being sought in country hotels. See Mark Steyn on GB News.
We have been infantilised to such an extent that we think we can have everything with little effort and no comeback.
polidori redux
1 year ago
The first step is to stop importing people, because I see no shortage of house building.
Cassander Antipatru
1 year ago
As others have said, we can’t build enough houses whilst importing 1 million or so people a year. I suspect as well that a lot of the opposition to loosening up planning laws is downstream of this. People instinctively recognise that no new housing will be enough, and that we’ll have to keep building and building until their hometowns get swallowed up in urban sprawl and completely change their character. It’s not surprising if they put their feet down and say, “Sod off.”
hayden eastwood
1 year ago
The irony is that if the Tory’s had got a grip of migration there would be no housing crisis eating them alive.
With an average of 400 000 (known) migrants arriving each year, over the last 10 years, the Tory’s have presided over demands on housing, schooling, health care and infrastructure stemming from 4 million new people, most of whom have settled in London and the South East.
By failing on the central thing that got them voted in, they have created numerous other problems that they are unable to fix.
It goes without saying that iIn week 0 of her tenure, Truss announced she would increase migration.
They are very, very stupid.
Last edited 1 year ago by hayden eastwood
Ian Stewart
1 year ago
After today’s events, the tories are done for a decade or so. Maybe even forever – that other Unherd article about FPTP never giving new parties a chance? Watch that space, the Tories may be about to evaporate.
The SDP taking a chunk of Liberal and Labour votes would be a good start …
Albireo Double
1 year ago
The Conservatives face extinction in London?
That would be their dream come true. They face extinction everywhere. And although I have always supported them, in the interests of humanity, I think that total extinction is the only kind way for them, now.
They need to be replaced by something better. A great deal better.
there is an enormous amount of building that has gone on in London for years. Drive in on the A2 and you will see new housing. Check the population – but also levels of recent immigration when the census comes out. Remember 1million people were given visas last year, overseas students were allowed to bring dependents. 35K of Channel migrants so far this year, filling ordinary hotels so that now places are being sought in country hotels. See Mark Steyn on GB News.
We have been infantilised to such an extent that we think we can have everything with little effort and no comeback.
The first step is to stop importing people, because I see no shortage of house building.
As others have said, we can’t build enough houses whilst importing 1 million or so people a year. I suspect as well that a lot of the opposition to loosening up planning laws is downstream of this. People instinctively recognise that no new housing will be enough, and that we’ll have to keep building and building until their hometowns get swallowed up in urban sprawl and completely change their character. It’s not surprising if they put their feet down and say, “Sod off.”
The irony is that if the Tory’s had got a grip of migration there would be no housing crisis eating them alive.
With an average of 400 000 (known) migrants arriving each year, over the last 10 years, the Tory’s have presided over demands on housing, schooling, health care and infrastructure stemming from 4 million new people, most of whom have settled in London and the South East.
By failing on the central thing that got them voted in, they have created numerous other problems that they are unable to fix.
It goes without saying that iIn week 0 of her tenure, Truss announced she would increase migration.
They are very, very stupid.
After today’s events, the tories are done for a decade or so. Maybe even forever – that other Unherd article about FPTP never giving new parties a chance? Watch that space, the Tories may be about to evaporate.
The SDP taking a chunk of Liberal and Labour votes would be a good start …
The Conservatives face extinction in London?
That would be their dream come true. They face extinction everywhere. And although I have always supported them, in the interests of humanity, I think that total extinction is the only kind way for them, now.
They need to be replaced by something better. A great deal better.