What do they mean “land ‘identified and proven’ as a ‘viable location’ for sustainable housing”? Where’s the Local Plan and is this land identified for housing or not? I can’t believe the endless shilly-shallying in this country, about building homes for people!

As someone who lives in an affluent area I was somewhat surprised at the high profile of (lack of) public transport in this. I don’t drive so I’m considered at best an environmental eccentric and at worst a public transport nutcase.. sounds like I’m not alone.

Some good housing news, at last!

This ..

A really good speech, and about time!

What a disgrace. This won’t please either right-wing loonies who want to “just send them back where they came from” nor anti-racists who want refugees to be treated humanely. No one wants to stop using hotels and end up spending more on an alternative, except apparently our government!

This is absolutely unbelievable - they’re moving asylum seekers to more expensive accommodation because “the public don’t want them in hotels”, I think we seem to have completely lost the plot!

statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP

What is actually wrong with people, that they attack NHS staff?

Rejoining would be great, however an aim is not a promise & neither is the Lib Dem’s view that we should do so when the time is right. Both parties appear to acknowledge that steaming in without taking people with us will just result in leaving again in a few years & that would be disastrous

Maybe the good people of Kent need to “undeclare” Council Tax

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

Tbf I don’t feel moved to take this up as sex discrimination

Mark Cockerton “Vote for me and I’ll get Gary Neville sacked from Sky, stop immigrants from eating our swans and make the National Trust take the tampon machine out of one of their male toilets. No need to worry about anything else.”

Privatised rail companies haven’t given a better service anywhere in the world, and increased passenger and freight demand mean our railway is creaking at the seams. The next vital step it seems to me needs to be continuing to reopen & build railway lines, hopefully at a faster pace than currently!

A good article and some interesting research methods too

“It seems that what we are really interested in build, baby, building is the profit margin on developer balance sheets. Plus ça change”

The announcement of the 12 New Towns only a few days ago, is already being swamped by negative comments. What is it about this country that everyone hates housing except the one they live in (and maybe the other one or two they rent out)?

Brexit shitshow latest: “The poll adds to the mounting pile of evidence that….dogma about regulatory alignment has always been more of an elite obsession” People want lower bills and less hassle and don’t care about Farage’s ego or agreeing with EU rules. Who knew? www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

Isle of Wight Councillors appear to think they’ll beat Reform by sinking into the same gutter it sprang from. I suggest they think again ..

It’s well on its way at least, catching up fast with Reform

So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?

Good news for one of our deprived and dilapidated coastal towns

“His speech outlined the contest between a “silent majority” of moderate, compassionate patriots who actually like their home country, and Faragist fanatics who hate modern Britain and would twist and fold it into Trump’s America”

Only in this country could the King be prevented from setting something up that would benefit the Nation, by the organisation tasked with looking after a former royal residence- for the benefit of (you guessed it) - the Nation >> comments

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

So .. POTUS affirms that London is ruled by Shariah Law & a former Tory Minister says we should be deporting LEGAL migrants (one helluva oxymoron). Has the world really gone mad or am I dreaming?

I think this is worth unpicking. If he’s not legally in the UK then a Landlord is unlikely to have signed a Tenancy Agreement. So the fact he’s a “migrant” is irrelevant. Many retirement living tenants no longer work.. (see comments)

When they are talking about Freedom of Speech they are talking about THEIR freedom of speech. And you can't speak freely because that is impeding their lies from being heard. Capiche?

There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there. This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.

Last time I checked: no one is stopping you eating a bacon sandwich, flying a flag from an appropriately constructed flagpole, or for that matter wearing a flag because you think it makes you look like a superhero- oh and “they” haven’t cancelled Christmas

Apparently marching behind a rascist criminal, attacking the police and obeying an American is being patriotic; who knew?

Today I learned that patriotism is listening to Americans and bowing to Elon Musk. Basically becoming America's bitch. I don't want that, do you?

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Every decent politician should be ‘disturbed’ by Tommy Robinson’s fascist march in London and Musk’s calls for violence on our streets. Every decent politician should stop claiming this horror is an expression of ‘free speech’. It’s vicious, racist incitement. DO something about it.

Apparently they’re ordinary folk who just want to fly the flag and be patriotic; nothing to do with racism or violence. Apparently.

Credit where it's due. BBC reporting on Farage tax and property questions. Openly references hypocrisy accusations. It's not hard, the man has plenty of areas to probe. And is very brittle when questioned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?

This is how traditionally flags are raised - in the open and in genuine celebration. Not strung up wonkily in the middle of the night with a political message plastered across the middle

A bunch of utter lunatics

Now this is a tax return that I would be very, very keen on seeing. Do feel free to give it a share. www.change.org/p/urge-nigel...

His plan for Brexit was "blue passports and fish." You'd have to be thicker than a whale sandwich rammed in a submarine door to vote for this absurd human being. Tragically, such people exist.

Absolutely disgusting

Maybe the Tapestry isn’t the best argument against racism, depicting as it does an invading force. It does remind us though that the idea that only “our own” should live here is a nonsense when we are descendants of the Norman French & many other tribes & nationalities who have come to our shores

Interesting that Farage and the Mail claim Britain is North Korea and not the UK as a whole. Do they think N Ireland has some distinct advantages because its close neighbour is in the EU??

I’m unsure as to how encouraging the US to make an enemy of the UK helps his Clacton constituents. Perhaps they could ask him to explain?

Blimey “If anything, Osman’s already sugared original has been further sweetened in its transit to the screen” - how could anything be more stereotypical and insulting to older people than that utter trash that masqueraded as a novel??

Just listening to last week’s R4 Broadcasting House (this week’s not yet available on listen again). Unbiased debate on asylum imv - until the end “we asked Labour, Conservatives & Reform for comment & they all declined”. When did Reform become the third party, what’s happened to the Lib Dems?