Everything Your Party is doing seems to be such a headache, I have no idea how it’s so messed up before it’s even really started. The Greens seem so much more clued up with how to build a party that appeals to people right now! Just not sure if they can deliver what we really need either.

The article says about clutter which bugs me, as I've noticed a lot of public spaces lack benches. And I feel whoever looks at this would use as an excuse to provide little. We need more ornamentation in public spaces, otherwise people will create their own! It's why ugly buildings get graffiti!

I really liked walking around Poundbury until any interactions with cars came about, removing them to the sidelines is pretty essential. Lower speed limit and easier to tell where the pavement becomes a road is essential whilst cars are so prevalent.

If anything, accessible design should focus on those with limited mobility and make it much easier for them to get around. I find anything built before the age of cars already is more accessible to me, when ironically things weren't planned out so much.

As an autistic person, I find the cut backs on road maintenance particularly challenging. Roads sound way rougher now & allowing cars to encroach into public spaces isn't good. Really I don't feel there needs to be specific sensory design, just make it walkable, have green spaces and make it pretty

If it doesn't say about street lighting, may as well not bothered. Modern LEDs are awful, extremely harsh on the eyes making visibility at night very difficult whilst somehow too bright right under the light. Car headlights are especially bad. Also anything that doesn't refer to walkable is no good.

They will need the longer 11 coach trains at this rate.

About time Labour stop being afraid of their shadow and delivered bold and radical policies! The country needs it! Especially with housing.

People don't like hearing it, but the same with Cockfosters and Oakwood on the Piccadilly Line. It's why Chase Park a mile or so away is being pushed by Enfield Council. Same with Crews Hill.

It may have been OK if the Tories didn't make councils sell off places at massive discounts and then say you can't use the money to replace the council houses. That's where it became a disaster. Now it requires bold policies to counter, ending right to buy is no longer enough.

Buying back properties needs to be a part of wider programme of building council housing, not constantly reducing the amount of affordable homes being built. All of which needs to be exempt from Right to Buy! This is a good start but a lot more to be done.

Most of our new towns are no more than 100000 and they took decades to build, even one of Britain's most expanded cities, Plymouth is around 260000 and the new areas and city centre took 25+ years to develop. Building somewhere the size of Birmingham from scratch is a megalomaniac pipe dream!

In 10 or 20 years, streets like this will be wonderful, thanks to the shade.

They sure want us to have short memories, don't they? I'll never forget or forgive the Tory coalition of chaos!

No problem. I'm finding Your Party quite perplexing and disappointing at the moment. But it's more the structures being set up and the way they are going about it. I was expecting a broad coalition of the left and unions, federal in nature, rather than one group trying to dominate everything.

Yeah I see the difference now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

It shouldn't matter. I can't remember everything I want to say the way I say it and having it in front of me helps me know when to stop/ say everything I wanted to say. I find it hard to speak in front of people, this just makes it sound like I should not bother.

Exactly! So what if someone is using their phone as a teleprompter. For some of us, it's only way we know we have said everything we actually wanted to say.

Thank god for that! I hope results like this are across the board next May!

Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:

🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.

Brilliant, that cheered me up! I hope it works out for him.
Also learnt from the interview, Andy Burnham and GM has a neuroinclusive code of practice, they need this everywhere! Discrimination in the workplace is still such a massive problem for the disabled and neurodiverse.

www.gmgoodemploymentcharter.co.uk/bee-neuroinc...

Good to see such a positive turn of events, I hope it works well for him, I really do! Also didn't know that Greater Manchester has a neuroinclusive code of practice, hopefully other regions will copy this. I'm university educated and autistic and work is so hard to get, it needs to change!

They have nothing on him, ideas never die!

Surely some of this has to filter into and benefit Hertfordshire, the county sandwiched between London and the Arc.

reform should just stand aside and let the grown ups take charge!

Autistic volunteer 'sacked' after family asked if he could be paid Tom Boyd, who has autism, was a volunteer at a Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme for four years but when his mum Frances asked if he could have paid work he was told he could not continue

What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time benefits are attacked, this is what the disabled face trying work! He may have volunteered but clearly liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation & discrimination from a multi billion pound company!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time the right wing attacks benefits, this is what the disabled have to put up with when they work! He may have volunteered but obviously liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation and discrimination from a multi billion pound company!

It's a growing problem in Britain. Rather annoyingly the government did a consultation on pavement parking 5 years ago and then sat on it, doing nothing! Joke really, as it causes so many issues locally and no one seems willing to fix it! In London and Scotland, it's finable but no where else.

Not isolated to Cornwall, Kent and Derbyshire too, reform's lot are bitterly divided so much infighting. Would be entertaining if people didn't rely on councils for so many services. You'd think a mechanism would exist where competent people take over if the existing councillors are unfit for office