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re misuse of the term Fascism:We have to redistribute income or wealth or face fascism: that is the choice before us
We have to redistribute income or wealth or face fascism: that is the choice before us
I dictated this yesterday when trying out a new microphone system that we intend to use (the Rode Wireless Pro system). I then transcribed this recording using Descript and realised that it was worth sharing: This has been a disturbing day in world politics. Donald Trump has selected a new...www.taxresearch.org.uk
THE RISE OF FASCISM AND THE NEGLECT OF THE POOR
THE RISE OF FASCISM AND THE NEGLECT OF THE POOR - Social Justice Party
It’s important for us to understand the reasons why the hateful ideology of fascism is gaining ground and also whether that ideology is actually shared by all the people engaging in the apparently mindless violence and public disorder we're witnessing.socialjusticeparty.uk
Extreme Political Ideologies and Their Connection to Poverty
Extreme Political Ideologies and Their Connection to Poverty - BORGEN
Extreme political ideologies such as communism and fascism have a longstanding history with poverty due to their authoritarian and often dictatorial policies.www.borgenmagazine.com
Actually 0.95% as @Woosh has noted, but by how much doesn't necessarily matter as much as whether it is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
More than 700,000 children plunged into poverty since Tories came to power: 'We're going backwards'
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Hundred percent correct. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 has been a disaster on every level. It interferes with the rights of every one of us who owns a property to do with it what we want. Not only does it do that, it prevents the development of vital infrastructure such as power lines, roads, railways and causes huge increases in development costs. It is the reason that building say a nuclear power station here costs about four times as much as it would cost elsewhere and takes twenty years to get through approval and development.Britain’s housing supply issues began in 1947, not 1980
The housebuilding crisis: The UK's 4 million missing homes - Centre for Cities
Compared to other European countries, Britain has a backlog of millions of homes that are missing from the housing market. Building these homes is key to solving the nation's housing crisis.www.centreforcities.org
At least some of the people you mentioned sang Hitler youth songs and they sympathize with the idealogy. Draw your own conclusions.
It makes no difference that some ar se hole in a party misbehaves. A Labour MP is about to be charged for beating up a man in drunken rage in a taxi queue for engaging him in a conversation on the winter fuel payment. That's on him, and not his party.
You are right in the effect of the planning regulations on the development of housing sites. However it is the lack of investment in the public housing that has created this problem since Margaret Thatcher's right to buy scheme and the cut backs in Local Authority funding for housing. The local authorities used to have housing departments with skilled Engineers and Architects who used to design and build local housing estates. They were all made redundant by the Tory policies over 30 years and we are now paying the price for these ill conceived policies.Hundred percent correct. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 has been a disaster on every level. It interferes with the rights of every one of us who owns a property to do with it what we want. Not only does it do that, it prevents the development of vital infrastructure such as power lines, roads, railways and causes huge increases in development costs. It is the reason that building say a nuclear power station here costs about four times as much as it would cost elsewhere and takes twenty years to get through approval and development.
A very good essay was posted on here a few weeks ago. I saved the link and sent t to my friends. It is long, but it comes down very heavily on planning sclerosis as a major reason why the UK is poorer than it should be.
An extract from the above:
"The source of the problem
In 1947, the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) was introduced, part of the postwar reform programme that nationalised nearly every major industry, from steel to man-with-van road haulage companies, and normalised top tax rates at over 90 percent. The TCPA completely removed most of the incentive for councils to give planning permissions by removing their obligation to compensate those whose development rights they restricted. Other reforms at around the same time also redistributed away much of the upside that councils had received from development through local property taxes.
The law also added a requirement to get permission from national government for any development, and to pay to the national government a tax of 100 percent on any value that resulted from permission being granted. Most notoriously, the TCPA instituted the legal powers that were used to create and expand green belts the following decade, prohibiting development on large rings of land around England’s cities.1
Overall, it moved Britain from a system where almost any development was permitted anywhere, to one where development was nearly always prohibited. Despite some minor later liberalisations, like the introduction of permitted development rights in the 1980s, the underlying problem remains. Since the TCPA was introduced in 1947, private housebuilding has never reached Victorian levels, let alone the record progress achieved just before the Second World War."
I've been banging on about this for fifteen years or more. It is a disaster, but it is also under pinned by that 1947 act.
By the way - can you show how any of Farage, Meloni, or Marine le Penn have EVER sung Hitler Youth songs or sympathised with Nazi ideology.
You can post pictures of Mussolini as often as you like Lenny - you still don't understand what Fascism is if you think it exists in Europe outside Putin's Russia, or his satellite states like Belarus.8907707080
"Fascio, Italian for a bundle or sheath, conveying “strength through unity,” the unifying force being the government and its supreme leader. As Mussolini put it: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”"
Almost all of the decline in opportunity that you describe comes down to the massive shortage of housing which has driven up prices. This is caused by planning restrictions and the legal ability of objectors to stop development, and population growth at alarming levels.
