Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on September 08, 2023, 11:32:50 AM
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The best laid plans...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66749344
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Tangentially related ....
Why aren't housing estate developers not required - where feasible - to put solar panels on the roofs of the dweilings they are building?
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Tangentially related ....
Why aren't housing estate developers not required - where feasible - to put solar panels on the roofs of the dweilings they are building?
Because the Tory government is beholden to the major building companies for significant amounts of funding. Why future proof buildings when you can put up substandard stuff and still charge top whack for it.
How much longer do we have to put up with this nonsense. RAAC. Grenfell. Shit housing stock. Lack of affordable rental properties. Inflated house prices. It is all of a piece. It beggars belief that we cannot work out a way to give our citizens decent housing.
Sorry derail.
On topic it still is all of a piece. That they messed the bidding process up should surely come as no surprise to anyone living on these blighted islands. Ukraine with it's ongoing war has managed to install more onshore (I know not off shore, but still) wind farms than we have. The government as it stands really could not organise the proverbial piss up in a brewery.
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Because the Tory government is beholden to the major building companies for significant amounts of funding. Why future proof buildings when you can put up substandard stuff and still charge top whack for it.
How much longer do we have to put up with this nonsense. RAAC. Grenfell. Shit housing stock. Lack of affordable rental properties. Inflated house prices. It is all of a piece. It beggars belief that we cannot work out a way to give our citizens decent housing.
So what is it, if it is so easy?
On topic it still is all of a piece. That they messed the bidding process up should surely come as no surprise to anyone living on these blighted islands. Ukraine with it's ongoing war has managed to install more onshore (I know not off shore, but still) wind farms than we have. The government as it stands really could not organise the proverbial piss up in a brewery.
How do you know the bidding process was messed up? Seems to me that it just reflects the cost of offshore wind projects relative to the price of electricity. We could pout the price of electricity up, but you know what will happen if we do.
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So what is it, if it is so easy?
Other countries manage it. Perhaps we can take a few lessons from them. But no, below us to consider any foreign ideas for fear that we'll all start eating sauekraut or frogs legs by some unspecified, unidentified cultural osmosis.