Planning is a Sin

Deranged ideologues at the High Court have thrown out the Government's "vacant building credit", a faith-based affordable-housing policy designed to make housing more affordable for developers to kick people out of. Dreamed up during the coalition and nodded through by the vacant Deputy Conservatives in November last year, the policy would have slashed the red tape surrounding arbitrary evictions and thereby facilitated the activities of large-scale cowboy outfits attempting to fill the country's crying need for corporate follies and vagrant proles. A second policy, which the vicious Stakhanovites at the High Court also overturned, provided social security for deprived luxury housing developers while removing the power of local authorities to claw back profits and waste them on the unworthy. The legal challenge was brought by two local authorities, one Labour and one Conservative; so it would appear that the peril of crypto-socialist entryism is even more widespread than has been prophesied by the Ascended Incarnation of the Reverend Blair. The Government will appeal the ruling, on the grounds that localism is far too important to be left to the locals.