Will Labour bulldoze our countryside? | The Daily T Podcast

[@tonyjones2838]

If a nurse of care worker from abroad brings in 5 members of family on average then how does that help us. We cannot keep these levels up

[@ChrissyM232]

That’s not the issue it’s people living alone as divorce is so rife. Brits aren’t having babies (except baby Muhammads) so the population increase from outside isn’t a major concern numbers wise

they will not be houses. They will be tall apartment towers. They are doing the same thing in Australia and it is a complete disaster.

[@listener-md]

Oh dear. It doesn’t get any better.

[@twowheeledadventuresuk2739]

In England there are over 430 people per sq km, making England the most densely populated country in Europe. Scotlands population is declining, many Scot’s are moving south for better weather and immigrants don’t want to live there - England is overpopulated, we are screwing it up for future generations

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

No, the Netherlands is 541 per sq km. Monaco is the most densely populated at 25927 per sq km. However, England is super densely populated in the south/south east. Northumberland is 62 people per sq km. London is 5690 per sq km. Kent is 500 per sq km. What we have is disproportionately skewed population density across the country and inadequate infrastructure everywhere.

[@stephenlyon1358]

England has enslaved Scotland.

[@paulpaisley5291]

We don't want them.

[@andybrice2711]

I'm generally quite a globalist. But it seems absurd to me building 1.5m homes whilst refusing to put a limit on the number of visas we issue.

[@organicwest]

Visas are for positions that your own population can't fill. Thanks to Brexit many of those positions were forced to be vacated. This is the absurd bit.

[@garymitchell5899]

​@@organicwestBut then net migration would be zero wouldn't it, as incomers match leavers?

[@andybrice2711]

@@organicwest That's simply not true anymore. We've been issuing hundreds of thousands of dependant visas to economically inactive people every year.

[@organicwest]

@@andybrice2711 So which category of Visa is this then?

[@garymitchell5899]

​@@organicwestDependents visa, he already said

[@duckcensorship7446]

I wonder if they taxed the farmers estates so heavily, so the grieving families of said farmers, would be forced to sell a few acres to property developers? I've heard crazier things before that were actually true, so I wonder.........

[@EDUARDO-bj9wf]

No longer peace in our world

[@andybussa1323]

Was there ever

[@tallthinkev]

Never mind Herts, have a good look at what happening in Cambs and the GCP!

[@ant7936]

As I said elsewhere, building 1.5 million homes in 5 years means completing 822 dwellings EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK for the period. That's 34 completed homes PER HOUR for 5 years! This woman and Government have no understanding whatsoever, of large numbers (perhaps the reason they give away so much money?)

[@stevesmith3990]

Rayner is so out of her depth.

[@duckcensorship7446]

Understatement of the day! 😐

[@malcolmmclagan372]

The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act and subsequent planning restraints should be repealed. There was not a problem until the Attlee's Labour government started meddling with housing and subsequent governments waded in.

[@PerfidiousAlbion1815]

Also we need educated smart skilled people of any origin coming into the country and not the penniless poor folks who then live in hotels paid by the state while the creaking system works out if they can stay. The Australians have the correct strategy. They take a small No of refugees to maintain a commitment to humanitarian support but anyone else has to have money or a job to come into the nation. When are politicians going to wake up to this. We also need to reform rental policy and build council/ social housing, but again no developers are going to do this as they don’t make enough profit… look at all the developments in Hertfordshire that have gone up and are empty still as no one can afford to buy them but the one or two houses there built as Social Housing are lived in… There should be a total ban on Green belt development for housing and total utilisation of vast areas of Brown field sites…but again developers call the tune as they make more profit tearing up fields rather than clearing a site first… until policy gets a grip on commercial development and subsidies to build social housing on brownfield this will not happen, also increased tax on profits on any approved green belt development.. ?

[@osric1730]

Not only that but as long as the housing and rental market is regulated as it it just building more houses won't help much. They'll simply be bought as investment opportunities or car parks for capital, or buy to lets or any of the large number of money making opportunities the way the market is regulated encourages. For this reason building more houses will simply line the pockets of the usual suspects whilst doing very little to alleviate the problem.

[@azar1354]

7:20 Population density is an important criteria when we compare different cities. But "dense country" is rather meaningless. The geography of countries are vastly different and there is still plenty of empty land even in relatively dense countries. The problem in the UK is not a shortage of houses. In many areas we have actually a surplus. One specific problem in the UK cities is low population density comparing to better developed European cities. We need to regenerate those areas, planning laws make it difficult.

[@petracam9359]

That seems to be the plan...

[@andybussa1323]

Whos the houses for

[@PaulMiller-h2l]

Abdul, Burdeep, Cardeen, Dingu, Enko, Fatima, Gurdup, Hoten, Jacob, Mohammed , Nardeen,

[@misteroz]

12:30 Absolutely, there’s an awful lot of residential development opportunity in the hollowed-out centres of post war ‘crap towns’ - Stevenage, Basildon, etc.

[@mikefletcher6595]

The first thing that needs sorting out is mass migration good for the economy? I thought the telegraph had recently done an article which looked into the data given by the OBR which stated that overall mass migration was bad for the economy and that all this talk of needed it to grow was just nonsense. If that is true then we don’t need any new houses because our birth rate is about 1.4, which means we have a declining population, and thus extra housing in essence is only needed to support migration. Yes we do need people to work in the NHS and care sectors, plus some other key roles, but not at the 1 million net migration figures we’ve been seeing. Meanwhile our food security is at less that 60%, we don’t even grow enough potatoes to feed the UKs needs, and that’s not gonna improve now the government has shafted genuine farmers. Our roads are bursting at the seems, if we reach the projected 2050 population figure of 75 million then we won’t need electric cars, more electric push-bikes as every road will be completely jammed. Why is it so difficult to comprehend that England is bursting at the seems and we are just fudging the place up, in 200 years from now it will have sunk into the sea under the weight of concrete upon it while everyone was virtue signalling about the environment

[@carltaylor6452]

and the eco-zealots and the no borders activists - and their friends in the media - are the same people!

[@MrLph427]

I live in the countryside, always have my 47 years, we are dreadfully under utilising our countryside with respect to creating new towns and villages. The east of the UK and the south-west of the UK are mostly open farmland with motorways travelling through some of it. Placing a new town near a motorway junction on new villages surrounding Infrastructure junctions of motorways for instance would be a great boom for the whole country. I for one would vote for that.

[@professormcclaine5738]

It's green for a reason 🙄

[@nioengland]

Quality over Quantity.. No Soviet style Dreary Mess This is England

[@TheFIGHTERTC]

my small town in Warwickshire is getting new estates built all around us plus the carnage of hs2 work. Its a nightmare! traffic is becoming so bad as the infrastructure cannot handle it. Also we have had no extra shops/ doctor surgeries built so u cannot get an appointments

[@ChrissyM232]

Do we actually have enough builders or will we be importing these?

[@JonathanPercival-smith]

It won't happen. We got Vinnie Jones on our side!!!

[@prideofdurham4776]

The question put to Rayner was WHERE she replied HOW and WHY , getting the usual dig at the Tories.Interviewer also bloody useless

[@marktombling8433]

If we need homes we need homes . Will poeple afford them

[@lbewl7374]

Angela seems to have gained a lot of weight since the Tories were removed. She seems far too comfortable for someome that should be desperately trying to not get sacked since lmost the e ntire U.K. hates her and thinks she's a braindead "head-for-head" hire.

[@stewartmcintosh1073]

Tony Blair did the scale up our young generation he brought in migrants from Eastern Europe

[@mattwardman]

It's weird that the T is framing this as being around "Green Belt." Green Belt in general reflects the situation in the 1950s, when it was eatablished. Much of the country does not even have Green Belt. and these areas need to be in the debate too.

[@garymitchell5899]

Brown field development is already allowed and encouraged so there's no need to debate it. The green belt still exists in places and there's a legitimate debate about that, but if an area isn't green belt any longer then so what?

[@mattharrison5220]

I can't wait until the aspiration for building meets headlong the restrictions of available labour in all trades, the ongoing (and much needed) developments arising from Grenfell and the Building Safety Act (requiring a workforce able to demonstrate "competence"..) houses, schools and hospitals will all need tradesmen and they are not available!

[@organicwest]

Brexit kicked the trades out of the country and the wages to enter the trades isn't worth effort. These people fail to mention the developments that have been sitting ready to go except for the NIMBY councilors dragging their feet.

[@davidlove1944]

​@organicwest I know a few subbies who were going to take apprentice's on then reeves did her budget no surprise no apprentice's

[@organicwest]

Shocking Housing is built on the ground. Small country large population so yeah countryside will need to go. Happens everywhere people, get used to it.