China makes ~30% of the world’s goods, dominates EVs, solar, and batteries; leads in rare earths, shipbuilding, steel, aluminium, 5G, electronics. Backed by $3.3trn FX reserves & largest banking system. There are people alive today in China who lived through famines.

Madness. Labour has made an ass of the law.

The time it takes to allow ourselves as a society to say yes, and give others a chance to object- aka planning permission.

Anyone who thinks Britain is fine, sounds like they belong in the video below. The problems however aren’t free speech, high taxes, theft, a lack of equality, or immigration. They are symptoms of a failing economic model. Marx was right about this- economics is the base layer

I did not see the Andrew Neil Fraser Nelson "it's all fine" story arc coming. Thrilling.

“Myth of a stagnant decade?” It’s waaay worse than almost anyone appreciates Andrew Neil

Everything is fine!

Don’t worry, after Reform supporters get “remigration”, Britain’s elites can go back to shitting on the working classes and calling them oiks and undeserving.

1. NIMBY 2. NIMBY 3. NIMBY 4. More public services made impossible because of NIMBYism 5. NIMBY

This is why our economy is broken. Old people who vote Tory just want to stop, block, and halt everything. And then they wonder why we can’t collect the bins more. We need a new British city free of this NIMBY crap.

It isn’t knowledge, it was mentality. They didn’t believe the future would be better. The golden age was always behind them. They actually had toy steam engines. But why systematically improve things if the past was best.

It’s funny how LibDems love the sound of LFG until I get to the bit about building houses, nuclear power plants, and generally actually solving the problems. 100% luxury belief party.

Shiv Malik Conservative YIMBY 🧢 Definitely down to build a city or 2!

France, Germany & other W European countries have more motorways than us, and (unlike us) keep building more. No wonder growth here is low. #InfrastructureMatters #BuildBabyBuild My substack is free to read: timleunig.substack.com/p/build-more-m… The Labour Party Rachel Reeves Heidi Alexander MP