This is it. As a Market Researcher I can see this. My job is collecting data manipulated via the questions so that another Quango can suck more money out of a project by discussing the findings. It's obscene. ๐ญ
Westminster has built a country where we spend more money on the planning paperwork for a single road than it costs other nations to build an entire mountain tunnel.
This isn't a system accidentally strangled by red tape: it is a highly lucrative industry. A vast priesthood of consultants and lawyers is making a fortune they have no interest in the work being done.
It is corruption by bureaucracy, and working-class communities are footing the bill for projects that never even see a spade in the ground.
The absolute paralysis of modern Britain was laid bare in a recent parliamentary committee. A single witness gave them the truth with both barrels, exposing the administrative vampires sucking public money dry while the work goes undone. The details are an insult to every community waiting for homes, decent transport, and cheaper energy.
Take the Lower Thames Crossing. The planning application alone has swallowed more than a quarter of a billion pounds. For that exact same amount, Norway actually constructed the worldโs longest road tunnel. We spent it on paper, and we have not even turned a sod of earth.
This is a permission state eating itself alive.
Look at HS2, the most expensive railway line on earth. Part of the reason it cost so much is that we are spending ยฃ121 million on a specific "bat tunnel" to protect a few hundred bats living in a nearby wood, a wood the line does not even pass through.
Look at Hinkley Point C, the most expensive nuclear power station in human history. For eight years, developers locked in a multi-million-pound wrangle with regulators over installing an underwater "fish disco", an acoustic deterrent to stop fish swimming into the pipes. 20 years ago, we built nuclear fleets at a fraction of the cost. Today, we sacrifice national infrastructure to the gods of endless compliance.
The final absurdity is the plan to reopen just 3.3 miles of an existing railway line between Bristol and Portishead, a route already built but closed during the Beeching cuts. The planning application is 80,000 pages long. Over one thousand of those pages are about bats.
We have created a system that trades in paper while the real economy rots. The working class pay the price for this institutional cowardice. They pay for it in soaring energy bills, missing homes, broken transport links, and a country that cannot build the future it keeps promising.
Protecting the environment is vital, but drowning ourselves in paper is not environmentalism. A system that takes 80,000 pages to clear three miles of existing track is broken. It is not governance: it is managed decline with a clipboard.
It's the bureaucratic vampires drinking the country's wealth...
Catherine McKinnell MP. The "mum at the station" anecdote. How wonderfully convenient. How perfectly timed. How completely made up.
This is X, Catherine. Not Facebook. We don't do "heartwarming" here. We do facts. And the fact is: every Labour MP suddenly has a "mum at the station" story in the last 24 hours. What are the odds? Did you all share the same mum?
"Excited for her younger son to have more quality time" by banning him from communicating with his friends? By giving the state control over his digital ID? By pushing him to VPNs and darker corners of the internet where you can't track him?
That's not quality time. That's surveillance time. That's "we couldn't be bothered parenting so we outsourced it to the state" time.
Keep your saccharine stories for your constituency Facebook page. On X, we see the digital ID agenda behind the smile. We see the tracking behind the "protection." We see the votes you're hemorrhaging behind the "mum at the station."
The government isn't taking action to support parents. It's taking action to control children. And the only person excited about that is you, Catherine. Because it gives you something to tweet about while the country burns.
Stay in your lane. The platform for made-up feel-good stories is three clicks that way. This is X. We deal in truth here.
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Carney admits on tape: When voters blocked his ESG plans, "We" Central Bankers acted like "Regulators" going around the voters through the BACK DOOR!
Manipulating fossil fuel prices by withholding lending.
Now he's PM!๐
This man describes exactly what is happening in the UK, and what is slowly spreading almost everywhere in the world.
The thought police will probably put him in jail for pointing it out.
@linmeitalks I would make it my life's mission if any of my family had been harmed. I am grateful I have won the lottery of life by being born into a civilised society. BUT to keep it that way when you know the extent of what you would do, what Country would willingly let these people in.
Peter Mandelson's protege, Wes Streeting, is talking complete garbage. The catastrophic error wasn't leaving the EU, it was continuing with a catastrophic neoliberal economic agenda. Being outside the EU frees the UK from state aid rules and enables the govt to intervene in the economy to make it work for the many not the few.