Keir Starmer made a good start to his leadership in King's Speech - let's see if it bears fruitDespite recalibrating the planning system not being the bulldozing of archaic restrictions we were hoping for, it's still progressin favour of green-lighting development instead of finding NIMBY excuses to stifle it is a long-overdue breath of fresh air.
While it’s not quite the bulldozing of all those archaic restrictions we were hoping for in order to turbo-charge Commendable too are the new powers for Ofwat to hammer the failing water giants, including banning bonuses for useless, greedy executives and holding them personally criminally liable for violating the environment.For far too long they have been allowed to sit it out, in a final insult to their victims.Some of Keir’s plans trouble us more.The same goes for the constitutional reforms certain to bind Britain hand and foot in a new layer of quangos and red tape.