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Chris Howell

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2 months

Its not Starmergeddon its Starmersutra - we are about to get screwed in a hundred different ways.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

This morning. Road gritted. Major cycle route was just sheet ice. In the City with highest UK modal share for cycling. We are so far from taking active travel seriously as a mode of transport.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

Huge majority wasted. Highest tax take in history. Debt through the roof. Public sector hopeless - nothing works. Left allowed to run riot through our institutions. Can’t build homes or infrastructure. Richly deserved by-elections results, we're heading for Tory oblivion.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

9 months

The level of cluelessness here about basic economics would be funny if it wasn't so widely believed and so devastating in its consequences for anyone looking for appropriate housing they can afford.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

9 months

‘It’s a supply obsession’ Rosie Pearson, Co-Founder of Community Planning Alliance, tells #Newsnight that the market can’t deliver the 300,000 homes target that the government has set.

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Chris Howell

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2 years

@RishiSunak I'm a party member in Cambridge. House prices are 12x local incomes. Companies here including multiple tech unicorns are desperate to recruit more people, lack of homes within sustainable commutes is holding us back. More NIMBYing is disastrous - we need more land for housing.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@danwilsoncraw If this was me and a landlord made a false representation to a tenancy deposit service to secure a deduction from the deposit I'd be tempted to just file a police complaint for fraud.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@stianwestlake Most fields in this picture are deeply unremarkable agricultural land 1 mile west of the City Centre and just south of the Uni's West Cambridge site. I doubt there's a better location on the planet for new dense sustainable housing, yet that's currently totally prohibited.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

Interesting psychology here - 'No parking' msg on drive used twice a day highly effective - high usage dedicated cycle lane much more appealing to park on. Vehicle had note from @UKPowerNetworks claiming a right to park anywhere...

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@DanNeidle I hope you will keep going with the SRA complaint - we need to reform how libel is used to stop SLAPP threats trying to hide the truth in cases like this.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

You could supercharge UK science + tech by allowing Cambridge to grow - instead house prices are 12x incomes, a Green Belt forbids development where it is most needed, and sclerotic local Councils fail to deliver on transport, infrastructure or quality

George Freeman FRSA MP

@MPGeorgeFreeman

2 years

The next PM cannot take the UK science + technology sector for granted. As this piece from graphene pioneer Paragraf warns, we face an accelerating brain drain unless the next PM gives the sector the leadership it urgently needs. (Thanks🙏 @Richbonner for your kind words).

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@chriscurtis94 Your landlord has had punishment taxes, government/public vilification, mortgage rates going up from c1% to c6%, and the value of their property might fall 30%. Hero is the wrong word but you probably are lucky he isn't selling up. We simply haven't built nearly enough new homes.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

The purpose of the Green Belt was to prevent urban sprawl - if you have areas with such catastrophic undersupply of housing that significant numbers are living beyond a Green Belt and drive commuting through it, it is obvious those belts needs loosening.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

10 months

@tc1415 Someone needs to organise a pledge for Conservative activists that they will refuse to campaign to help any Conservative candidate who puts NIMBY campaigning ahead of delivering new homes or fixing the economy.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@AnthonyBrowneMP Or you could just ensure the relevant water infrastructure (and transport etc) is built and actually make a historic contribution to the future economic welfare of the country by supporting the growth of Cambridge.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@SpeechUnion It's very hard for individual consumers to change a policy of large corporates that they disagree with. But you can choose not to use their services.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@MrHarryCole Chart shows 18 months of no increase in price of bread while wheat prices go through the roof (probably due to bread costs based on buying forward and wheat price shown being the spot price), bread costs finally start to rise behind the curve, and you think it should now plummet?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@NJ_Timothy You should be thankful for every pumped up man that chooses to travel by bike rather than by car

Driver charged with killing mum in horror Range Rover crash

A MAN has been charged over a horror crash in which the Range Rover he was believed to be driving fell onto train tracks, killing his female passenger. Rida Kazem, 23, was charged with three offenc…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

Seriously @GregHands - its not 'we need to get our message out better' - the problem is the performance of the government. Its beyond baffling why you are so hopeless given the size of the majority, but you're just not delivering efficient well run government.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@Jack_Blanchard_ @g_lanktree Let me guess - these huge concessions involve the terrible outcome of UK consumers getting access to cheaper food?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RachelReevesMP Have I missed something as every announcement seems to be yet another vague aspired outcome, with no indication at all of how you expect to get there? I have literally no idea what principles or policies you will apply to government - please tell me its not just 'Buggin's term'

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

The key HS2 question is not should we complete it, but why are the costs so eye-watering? Politicians and civil servants have spectacularly failed to control costs, the public deserve radical transparency - publish everything: invoices, payments, all estimated costs to completion

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Before any kind of sustainable plan for Cambridge we need a local government reorganisation to scrap the mess of local authorities covering the greater Cambridge area and new unitary authorities for the County.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@MattWWoolwich This sounds like some awful not very funny sitcom. You couldn't parody this stuff.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

3 years

@tomhfh Absolutely spot on - I've always thought it a particularly cruel irony that having taken more than half of your earnings, the state uses a lot of that cash to create a regulatory environment that makes everything you choose to buy much more expensive, especially housing.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

All Tory MPs need to be locked into a conference centre this weekend without booze or twitter and not allowed to leave until they have all agreed one candidate and a broad policy direction they can all accept without immediately ringing their journalist mate to complain.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

10 months

This is a current view from the Nature Reserve. The development will have no significant impact on the Nature Reserve, all the ludicrous opposition has done is imposed £'000s of costs on an education charity and delayed vital housing improvements.

Friends of Paradise Nature Reserve

@FriendsOfPNR

10 months

A sad day. Queens’ College has won its appeal to build student blocks next to Paradise. We thank all those who have been helping us campaign against this scheme, especially those 240 who contributed to the recent crowdfunder. More updates shortly.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Cambridge has already seen big growth - and it’s been hugely positive. More growth will be great if done well with top quality buildings, and infrastructure levies delivering transport and other amenities. There is an opportunity to create the best small city on the planet.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RachelReevesMP Bank of England economists - are they the people who were asked to keep inflation to 2% but didn't know what it takes to keep it below 10%?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

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@ToirdhealbhachS @LukeDyks Hello from Southern Cambs. We have dozens of globally significant technology companies changing the world, have seen billions in inward investment, adding billions of economic value. But a fraction of the potential due to a development ban from the 1960s

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

A college just wants to build on land it owns, doubtless to usual incredibly high standards. Happens to be next to a nature reserve and some of the most entitled NIMBY neighbours imaginable. How do we ever get anything built?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@CharlotteCGill The UK population has increased by over 8 million in 20 years, and politicians from all parties have no will to reduce net immigration, but NIMBY all day long to ban new homes in the places they are most needed. The only surprise is that anyone is surprised at the results of this

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@DuncanStott MPs complaining about quality of life if we build more homes really need to get out more and speak to young people about their current housing situation and the probability of it improving in any time period relevant to them wanting to start a family.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@Mr_John_Oxley If you are older than about 40 under our current system campaigning for significant infrastructure is like old men planting acorns. You’re mostly doing it for future generations.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

Much more exciting than a penalty shootout - its my response to the @GreaterCambs Making Connections aka Congestion Charge for Cambridge consultation @dave4labour @Ezy_Ryder @CamSci84 @NOCCC2022 @snifftheair

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@CharlotteCGill A demographic divide in the population splits those with student grants, houses bought in their 20s, cheap imports and final salary pensions and those with student loans, rising rents and punishment level taxes. As ever older people miss the cut, the tipping point is coming.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@AlexKokcharov 'How do you live with yourself supporting a regime of murderous genocidal gangsters?' maybe.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Ambulance on emergency call held up earlier by van parked in Hills Road bus lane - also causing chaos for buses. Sure it’s more hassle to park safely and legally but this is really unacceptable

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Stolen bikes in Cambridge Facebook group is reporting that in the last few days, 2 children have been mugged for bikes including 1 at knifepoint, and a flat's communal bike store raided overnight with a dozen bikes stolen. Needs another step up from @CambsCops

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@triggerpod They refer to their Ts and Cs which lead here - … - do they think you are on this list, or have they applied some secret test? My guess is this will end up being another case for @SpeechUnion

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

People don't take decisions like this <2 weeks after being re-elected lightly. Whatever is going on within Cambridge Labour, democracy would be better served if the issues at stake were aired publicly before the election not privately just after.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Why do people think this kind of parking particularly on a road like Hills Road is a reasonable thing to do…

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@UKPowerNetworks It looked like a non-emergency visit to a connection for some new build flats this morning. Even if on an emergency call, there were lots of better places to park that didn't put more vulnerable road users at risk.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Many people in Cambridge support the growth of the City - its time for us to fight for it.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

The Cambs local authorities have spent 6 years planning but failing to build a few cycle routes they've called Greenways. Pathetic lack of delivery so far, now feeling the full weight of the entitled Cambridge NIMBY brigade. When does this nonsense stop?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@rcolvile Cambridge's local government arrangements are deeply shambolic, and the most appropriate sites for development are forbidden for development due to the Green Belt - quality growth is throttled by lack of homes, transport and other infrastructure. So much lost potential its tragic

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RachelReevesMP What level of pay rise does Labour think should be given to striking public sector workers? How much higher than the independent pay review bodies are recommending?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

Why do all the housing interventions seem to involve keeping house prices high and advantaging first time buyers at the expense of everyone else looking for a more suitable home instead of just building more homes and helping everyone?

Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

11 months

Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt is drawing up new package to help first time buyers in the Autumn Statement Hunt is expected to extend the 95% mortgage guarantee for another year Treasury is also looking at a new ISA product to help people save up a deposit

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@UKLabour And if you're stuck in your first home, a small flat, and want a home to start a family - this policy will make that home more expensive for you...

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@arlloyd @whippletom Or just scrap the Cambridge Green Belt, put proper infrastructure levies on new development and let Cambridge reach its potential. We’re lucky enough to have a globally significant knowledge based cluster - ludicrous to think they can be magicked into existence anywhere.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@SimonMagus I reckon if you just made up some new animal species and told Cllrs there was a colony of them half a mile from some proposed new homes that were critically endangered by the noise from heat pumps, a lot of them would believe you.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@JonathanEley The number of people who put most or all their net wealth in one asset class is remarkable. Also the risks of: Losing job, tenant losing job, interest rates rising and house prices falling are very much not independent risks that you'd be very unlucky if they all happened at once

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

@JohnSpringford He was a junior investment banker at Goldman who worked on railway stocks. His experience at analysing the numbers on this will literally be better than almost anyone. And the civil service have proved catastrophically hopeless at controlling costs.

What did Rishi Sunak do before he entered politics?

New PM worked for Goldman Sachs and in hedge funds before entering politics in 2015

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@MikeDiplockre Comparing housebuilding (350k pa) in the 1930s with the last 20 years (often under 150k pa) is all the more remarkable if you factor in population growth. c270k pa in the 1920s, c450k pa since 2000. The extent of our failure to build enough in the last 20 years is mindboggling.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@rcolvile I guess if you spend most of your time in a postmodernist emoted 'my lived experience is my truth' kind of world, occasional interactions with the reality based community must be a bit grating.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Lots of Cambridge streets need to replace a tiny amount of car parking with cycle parking - maybe move from 100% car to 95% car, 5% cycle parking. The skip in this photo would be top of my list, but most streets in the De Freville area a close second

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@TypeForVictory We've just had 14 years of interest rates on the floor. HMG could have borrowed long term at 1-1.5% and revolutionised our infrastructure. They managed to borrow £2.5 trillion but somehow we still have no infrastructure and no housing, and now interest rates are through the roof.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@Sam_in_Cam @CB1_Development Careful there, you'll be suggesting that what was delivered didn't quite match what was promised, which itself wasn't all that exciting. It is genuinely tragic the extent to which the opportunity in Cambridge has been squandered by those charged with its development.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@nickmacpherson2 What moral hazard? What signs were missed that SMEs should have spotted? Should SMEs only deposit in too big to fail A+ rated banks? If well capitalised, why not guarantee deposits? Is UK bank regulation worthless and every SME should employ an expert banking credit risk analyst?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

This is a huge response to a public consultation. How much more efficient would it have been to have local election candidates promoting their plans before an election and just getting on with it if they were elected instead of hiding plans until elected:

24,000 respond to GCP consultation on bus improvements funded by road charging

The consultation received almost 24,000 responses.

www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@rcolvile The Cambridge Green Belt is largely unchanged since 1965. Since then we've added a biomedical campus that will employ up to 30,000, 6 unicorns, AstraZenica HQ, over 1,000 tech businesses, and one University (and expanded the other one), and still the Green Belt is deemed sacred.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@BarristerSecret On (b), presumably its 'Jolyon Standing', as in 'I'm very important, its a terribly important issue and I've done lots of crowdfunding so I must have standing on this.'

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RachelReevesMP Wait until you discover what the NHS is paying for all those PFI deals Gordon Brown encouraged to hide debt off the government's books.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@S_Hammond Absolutely right, the last thing we want is more homes when net immigration to the UK exceeded half a million last year and the average house price is * checks notes * £797k

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@cambscc You put in non-LTN1/20 compliant barriers and ignore desire lines. I've complained to my County Councillor who contacted officers - no response. Who decided the right thing is more barriers and why? Who paid? Where is the accountability? This is ridiculous. @alexbeckett

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@DannyJDavidson Or from Cambridge: Cllr from ruling party sues own Council trying to overturn the Council's scandalous decision to ***checks notes*** sell posh alcohol in a new Co-op store, loses, and is now crowd funding to pay his legal bill.

Cambridge councillor Richard Robertson left facing £34,500 legal bill for helping Mill Road...

Cllr Richard Robertson lost legal action relating to street-drinking.

www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Buy-to-let landlords wrongly take loads of abuse just for running a business providing housing for people. But they shouldn't be protected from bad business decisions and house price falls - lets build millions and crash prices. Reliably wrong Rachel OTOH:

Rachel Reeves

@RachelReevesMP

1 year

The Tory mortgage bombshell is causing huge harm to families. Now they risk a snowball effect, with buy-to-let properties excluded from the mortgage charter. Labour would make sure all mortgages holders are protected - including buy-to-let.

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Chris Howell

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1 year

@UKLabour ROFL - Labour controlled @camcitco developed the old City depot and had complete control of the site - new homes there were actively marketed to buyers from Hong Kong

Cambridge City Council promotes homes on its land to overseas buyers

The move has been slammed by the Liberal Democrat opposition for ‘stoking up the cost of housing from which local people suffer’.

www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@PhilRodgers This is what the Victorians managed - from By Afterbrunel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@kaifgaming786 @MartinSLewis 1) Would benefit if want or need to 'trade up' 2) Actually care about the impact on society of the current supply/affordability crisis 3) Falls mostly a problem for people trading down who have already seen enormous rises.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@HolstaT If its like big 4 accountancy training, they spend 2-3 years working long hours doing grunt work whilst being exposed to a lot of proprietary knowledge about how large organisations work or don't work and the language they use so quickly get to information asymmetry with clients.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@peterwalker99 @jonburkeUK Nah - JSO don’t discuss politics - they take direct action to force production of fossil fuels to stop - if you do that whilst being a luxury consumer of fossil fuels yourself a charge of ´hypocrisy’ is absolutely fair.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@SimonClarkeMP Please try explaining that to your colleagues in southern Cambridgeshire like @ab4scambs who represents some of the most appropriate locations on earth for desperately needed new homes and remains a massive NIMBY

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

9 months

@TriciaHPH Nonsense. Food distribution is done by highly profit motivated supermarkets who distribute copious amounts of all types of food at very low margins. The only reason that housing doesn't work like this is that government decides how much is allowed and legally prohibits supply.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@christiancalgie In a country run by NIMBYs. If that number is close to being true, it explains what has been happening to the market price of housing to rent or buy and points to catastrophe for housing conditions in the very near future.

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Chris Howell

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9 months

She thinks 300,000 new homes a year is too many, when we have had net immigration of 1.4m in the last 2 years alone. Its like when Blackadder tries to teach Baldrick to count beans.

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Chris Howell

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2 years

@tomhfh To put that into perspective, every single mile of HS2 will cost on average about £270-£280m more than a mile of high speed line built in Europe.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@AntBreach We can but dream of a supply situation such that developers have to compete for customers with features like 'nature friendly'

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

The new Conservative candidate for South Cambs off to a flying start in the NIMBY stakes. Already opposed two major public transport projects and a major upgrade to water infrastructure. Depressingly predictable. ps you still won't out-NIMBY the Lib Dems.

Chris Carter-Chapman

@Chris4SCambs

1 year

Great to meet with @SaveHoneyHill1 and hear about the excellent work they’re doing to stop a crime against our local environment. I'll be supporting them in defeating plans for the demolition of a fully-functioning sewage works and the resulting loss of beautiful green belt land.

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Chris Howell

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1 year

@anthonypainter @snifftheair @KevinPrice57 @CambridgeLabour We've just had an election where every candidate you spoke to opposed congestion charging plans, there was a debate within the ruling Labour party completely hidden from the electorate until a week after polls closed, and the GCP are still pushing ahead with congestion charging.

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Chris Howell

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1 year

@christiancalgie This would all be true if we had a functioning market. You just need to remember attempts to play renters off against homeowners are all designed to distract from the real problem - the failure to increase housing supply in line with increases in demand.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

This is what happens when you should have built 4m more homes and decide that attacking and piling regulation on landlords is a good substitute policy

Renters compete with 20 others in battle to find a home

Requests to view each rental property have more than tripled in four years as competition rises.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

@snifftheair Yep - claiming procedural irregularities on a decision that had an unprecedented amount of scrutiny, consultation and public awareness because you don't like the outcome will cost taxpayers thousands of pounds that could have been spent fixing potholes. Shame on them.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@PhilRodgers @thomasforth For quite a lot of high wealth people in Cambridge driving round in a large luxury SUV doesn't signal high status, it signals naff and anti-social. School run in the Electric Bakfiets on the other hand...

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Its taken nearly 4 months, but @cambscc have finally admitted that @CamConservancy did not have permission and broke the law by shutting the towpath

Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

. @CambsCC Was this an approved closure of a public right of way on the NCN11/Haling Way near Cambridge today - its an important active travel route and there were no notices warning of the closure or signposted diversions? @camcycle

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

Reading a planning application - a proposed mitigation for not providing car parking is provision of 'travel packs to first occupiers to promote non-car travel'. Completely mindbogglingly preposterous to think this action achieves anything - its complete nonsense.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

@snifftheair Big turnout in the rain - as you'd expect given the high levels of local support.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RachelReevesMP You have 2 policies: Freezing fuel duty to encourage more driving and holding down the energy price cap to avoid the need for energy efficiency, both at massive cost. Rapid expansion of renewables began in 2010. 'First' 'Green' and 'Chancellor' all doing some heavy lifting here.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

This field, with unremarkable fields beyond lies exactly 1km from both the New Cavendish Laboratory in West Cambridge, and Kings College Chapel in Central Cambridge, where house prices are 12x average incomes. Best site in the world for new homes, totally forbidden by Government.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Pro-congestion charge people are all 'everything's terrible, something must be done' so they support plans that are utterly inconsequential in improving sustainable transport and reducing pollution whilst hammering low wage workers. Terrible policy making.

Markus Gehring 🇪🇺

@M__Gehring

1 year

Define terrible - our air quality is way below the WHO air quality guidelines annual safe levels for NO2 of 10μg/m3 and these levels have been violated every year even during the pandemic. Simply untrue that our air is not terrible.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

. @CambsCC Was this an approved closure of a public right of way on the NCN11/Haling Way near Cambridge today - its an important active travel route and there were no notices warning of the closure or signposted diversions? @camcycle

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@surplustakes Indeed - in Cambridge the Conservatives could be making the case for quality growth to create the best small city on the planet - instead they are going arch-NIMBY which I predict won't prevent complete electoral annihilation anyway.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@DanNeidle If income goes above £100k a lot of people just avoid the supertax rate from personal allowance withdrawal by increasing pension contributions (or making additional charity donations). Government marginal tax take drops from 40%+ to zero.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@Wera_Hobhouse You are seriously misguided if you think the government has an intense focus on nuclear energy - they might actually have delivered some of it. And I don't think you know what sunk costs are (or sink costs for that matter).

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

10 months

@tc1415 Is there even a list anywhere so people know who to help and who not to help? Joy Morrissey, Theresa Villiers probably top of my villains list, Simon Clarke top of the heroes list.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@Ezy_Ryder @C_residentsgrp @SandieBlickem @ClareFKing @AnnaBailey_Ely @dave4labour @glenysmw @CambsCC @GreaterCambs @camcycle Correct. Still very keen on more cycling and less traffic congestion, not opposed to road pricing in principle, but this proposal is dire - hidden from voters last May, pitifully unambitious for public transport, bureaucratic and will cause real hardship for many.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

@MRJKilcoyne The calibre of most MPs and the bias against people with a science or technology background getting selected makes parliament profoundly incompetent for making these kind of decisions. The civil service wanted to pay a head of cybersecurity £50-60k. Its idiotic and tragic.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@botzarelli @MWHoyle19 @DuncanStott People who think the government can just persuade Microsoft, Amazon, Apple etc to move their UK R+D facilities to some random place in the north don't understand network effects impact on knowledge based industry. Cambridge could deliver so much more if allowed to grow faster.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RachelReevesMP You're going to tax oil and gas companies on their global profits? Interesting. Can't see that having an impact on investment in energy supply at all. Definitely a 'ready for government' policy that one.

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

11 months

@JamesInCity Any thoughts on this @LibHousing ?

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Stop demonising cyclists - everyone benefits if more of us get on our bike

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Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

2 years

@RhysBenjamin @GeneralBoles Not if you still aren't able to buy enough sq ft to bring up a family because there simply aren't enough homes available, and you can't afford the repayments when interest rates are no longer on the floor.

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