General Discussion
Hedging your bets there Burneside? I do not accept your characterisation or your logic, however I would agree that an out-of-touch Tory party leadership conducted a disastrous Remain campaign (on the back of a dismal pre-referendum EU negotiation display by David Cameron) which emphasised more the negative aspects of leaving, rather than the positive reasons to remain. The Remain ...
Don't forget: clocks go forward 1 hour on the 26th March - then back 30 years on the 29th.
A hard Brexit was not something that many of the 52% would have wanted either, Lynne. And while Nigel Farage may have called for a fresh referendum when he thought the country was about to vote to remain in the EU (by a similarly narrow margin, as it transpired, to the vote to leave) most of the public going on the march on Saturday will be hoping more to influence the considerations of ...
The result is one thing, burneside. The deal (or no deal) is another.
It's far more than a symbolic jesture, Burneside - it's an opportunity for 'the 48%' (and the disaffected amongst 'the 52%') to demonstrate against the most negative aspects of leaving the EU, the broken pledges of the Leave campaign and the inherent risk to the Union of our four nations. We may be leaving the EU, but I know I would not rest if I did not make every effort to press to ...
I hope you're right Lynne. While no hair shirt can be uncomfortable enough for our most ardent chest-beating Brexiteers, the subtext to the ongoing battle between Scotland's FM and our PM, Lady T, is that our nation's leader will need come up with something better than a hard Brexit, if she does not want Scotland to walk. Can Theresa May be as bad a gambler - or negotiator - as David ...
Put it like this b.o., if the result of the vote across the Channel yesterday does not mark a downward trend in "the wrong sort of populism" in a wider Europe (and in that I include Great Britain), then I'm a Dutchman. Given that Brexit will, perversely, have had a hand in the effecting of such a trend, then perhaps it would be worth raising a glass. Your boozer or mine?
Hoping to whip up some Dutch courage, b.o.liking?
Looks like last summer's much-heralded government starter homes plans are now headed for the shredder. Is it any wonder that we do not have the new housing we need when policy changes (whether welcome or not) which significantly affect the delivery cycle come along at such regular intervals? "Housing market broken, ministers say ahead of White Paper..." ...
Few would disagree with the ethos of this EO Policy HM2, however the various DHC band qualifications are quite clear: Unless there is an emergency housing need (as detailed above) - without a Devon connection an applicant would be placed in Band D, Low Housing Need. But as you point out, while this scheme does not provide Affordable Housing, it does not look like a bad development ...
