it's up to us commenters to back you up.
Totally worth reading, just great internet creativity
FarceOfWill
joined 2 years ago
It's just a total coincidence the costs are the same then? Weird story
Easier to show you the process. It's by council , so each can have different rules, but Southwark has been the council with the most council houses for a long time so it's a good enough example. Basically you need to have lived there a while and not own your own home. Getting to the top of the list is probably harder than getting on it.
And yes the problem is the councils are banned from borrowing to build housing or using proceeds from selling to build more as I understand.
https://www.southwark.gov.uk/finding-a-new-home/looking-for-a-home?chapter=2
It's not campaign costs that are the issue. You're working full time on a campaign, you really have to quit or take six weeks off with your boss being ok with you never coming back.
Many people work jobs where this would be seen as a great thing for the firm, many do not
So how do you stand for election with no income for months on end?
Sounds like the same argument against banning smoking in pubs, which is probably the single greatest health intervention in the last fifty years and now supported by basically everyone.
As you've probably realised from the replies, there's a reason all the urbanists talk about the Netherlands.
Though, any other European country would be an improvement to most of America outside NY. You can actually walk to places
What is that? A car for ants?
The Facebook code that outputs to fediverse using activity pub can put any posts it likes into that feed, because it's not mastodon it's custom and can absolutely inject ads.
Can you still use green light as a news metaphor when you're writing about cars?
The electric cars are powered by gas and coal in the uk. We are a long way from pure renewable electricity and between mining and shipping metals, steel, and tyres they're not quite the perfect green vehicles they're presented as.