Anger is brewing at Defra Secretary Steve Reed over his decision to approve plans for a new reservoir in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. All while blocking homes in his own constituency…
Reed wrote to Sadiq Khan in July to ask the mayor to call in an application for 237 homes (35% of which were going to be “affordable housing“) in his constituency in Streatham. Reed claimed “many of my constituents” believed the proposal to be “out of proportion” with other buildings. A classic NIMBY argument…
A petition from the Campaign to Protect Rural England has got 4,466 signatures as the organisation last week launched legal action to judicially review Reed’s approval of a reservoir in far away Abingdon. Happy to develop in constituencies other than his own – there’s a word for that one…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”