Homes deceit
WHO could fault the building firms protesting that archaic planning rules are blocking new homes for young people and threatening 800,000 jobs? Actually, many would.
Millions oppose just such development.
Oh, they’re all for it in principle. Just not within miles of their own property.
These NIMBYs comprise a huge voting bloc — and politicians know it.
As Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak cops the flak for perpetuating a system which stops enough homes being built, inflating prices and rents. But politicians of all stripes deserve the blame.
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All over Britain they harvest NIMBY votes by championing campaigns to scupper development on their patches.
Then they all troop back to Westminster to whine about house prices and rents.
Labour promise a building revolution, but their MPs are as guilty as any.
It is not just selfish cynicism. It is repulsive hypocrisy.
Docs’ shame
ANYONE refusing to believe a doctor would callously prolong patients’ suffering to extract a vast pay rise need doubt no more.
The threats by two leading figures from the hard-left BMA union amount to sickening, indefensible blackmail.
This union represents senior doctors — averaging £128,000 a year but striking this month for 35 per cent more, supposedly to reverse pay erosion since 2008.
One dissenting colleague has bravely admitted consultants are too wealthy to justify walkouts.
But the BMA is far less squeamish, weaponising 7.4million on the NHS’s mountainous waiting lists.
Dr Shanu Datta says of the Tories: “There’s 7.4million reasons why they should talk to us.” Colleague Dr Mike Henley adds: “We have to use leverage.”
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The Hippocratic Oath commits medics to “do no harm” to the sick.
The BMA’s greed and politically driven obstinacy puts them in direct breach of it.
Had our fill
YOU would think that fuel profiteers would cut prices now they have been busted.
That the supermarkets might be chastened by the damning CMA probe and the threat of a PumpWatch regulator.
But no. Petrol and diesel remain 5p-6p a litre above where they should be, given falling wholesale prices.
No10 must end this rip-off . . . now.
Braking point
HOW do council penpushers sleep at night after a day dishing out fines for minor or even non-existent traffic offences?
One driver’s car was lifted up, fresh double-yellows painted under it and a ticket then slapped on his windscreen.
He did nothing wrong. London’s Lambeth Council randomly punished him.
You win again, icy-hearted jobsworths.
