Tories pledge to cut £50k from cost of new homes

 

The Conservatives will unveil a plan to reduce the price of a new-build home by £50,000 in a bonfire of red tape.

Senior Tories will use the second day of their annual conference to launch “the biggest deregulation project in a generation” to scrap net zero rules, cut grocery costs and pave the way for a third runway at Heathrow.

Yesterday, in her first speech at the conference, Kemi Badenoch declared her party was “for the future” and revealed a plan modelled on Margaret Thatcher’s years in opposition to bring the Tories back to power.

Today, Andrew Griffith, her shadow chancellor, will announce plans to scrap the Future Homes Standard, which requires developers to include heat pumps or other low-carbon technology in their designs from next year.

He will also pledge to abolish the “Grocery Tax” – a packaging levy that has pushed up food inflation by 0.5 per cent under Labour – and simplify Britain’s tax systems, which he will say have become a “cat’s cradle of complexity”.

Badenoch said she had been inspired by Thatcher to write a 90-page pamphlet on her plan to rebuild the Conservatives, modelled on a similar book published in 1976. She said her party “governed for 18 years after that, because we started with the right foundations” and pledged to “do the same again”.

In the pamphlet, called The Right Way, the Tory leader criticised her more recent predecessors for their approaches to immigration, net zero and post-Brexit trade policy, by “[leaving] the European Union without the economic plan that should have gone with it”.

She also warned that “little ghettos of separatist communities” risked “ruining” Britain and called for the “return of consequences” for criminals.

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                                                      Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989)

Dentons Death

The newest oldes temple

While Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia is frequently celebrated as an architectural marvel, its continued construction deep into the 21st century raises significant social and ethical questions. At its core, pouring endless resources, billions of euros, and well over a century of labor into a colossal religious basilica feels fundamentally out of step with the priorities and realities of modern society.

In an era defined by pressing humanitarian crises—ranging from severe urban housing shortages to widening wealth inequality—the dedication of such immense wealth to a monumental place of worship appears increasingly difficult to justify. Barcelona itself is a city actively grappling with a housing crisis and the negative impacts of gentrification, issues that are exacerbated by the mass tourism the basilica aggressively courts. Today, the structure functions less as a genuine spiritual refuge for the local community and more as a lucrative, highly commercialized tourist trap, blurring the line between religious devotion and capitalist enterprise.

Furthermore, the ideological weight of constructing a towering Catholic megastructure in a modern, democratic society cannot be ignored. Europe has become increasingly secular, yet this monument harks back to an era when the Church dominated both public life and the urban skyline. By continuing to build grander, taller towers today, the project projects an image of institutional vanity and religious dominance that ignores the pluralistic nature of contemporary life.

Rather than serving as a beacon of modern spirituality, the Sagrada Familia can be viewed as a gilded, anachronistic vanity project. It is a staggering misallocation of human and financial capital that is desperately needed elsewhere, building a monument for a past era rather than addressing the urgent needs of the present.