Echoing a stupid comment also used a lot by the US rightwingers.
“People may feel that we’ve done the right thing through introducing this regulation, but on the other side of that, think about all the human suffering of not having a home, not being able to have children, and being stuck in your parents’ home in your childhood bedroom. So there is a balance,” said Dudley.
“You know… sadly… everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right?”
He also said: “You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen.”
Average YIMBY TBH
YIMBY? Yacht In My Back Yard?
This is easily one of the least offensive quotes ever issued by a reform member
Out of context yeah, but the context is he’s trying to claim that fire regulations are hempering building development and should be scrapped. Any inevitable deaths that result in that are just “unfortunate” but ultimately unavoidable as doing otherwise would increase the cost of building development.
Presumably this is where we are supposed to get our violins out to mourn the poor poor building developers.
it’s a typical free market supply n demand argument, if those pesky pc bureaucrats with their red tape fetish would all fuck off and die then the housing market would be rosy. of course it’s bollocks. and certainly it’s insensitive to say everyone dies in the context of people who’ve died. but everyone does die. i’m not interested in defending him but to get sacked for the offensiveness of that when they have lucy connolly speaking at their conference is just bizarre
