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@philritz1 Well the lockdowns & working from home or on furlough complacent elite have put paid to the jobs bit for working class & self employed rather effectively, and take a look at the high st not many shops left apart from £1 stores & charity shops

@philritz1 So atm, with vast well to do people working in the suburbs instead of commuting, this is going to destroy thousands of jobs permanently & turn cites into ghost towns no jobs = no money to spend in centres. VERY ill conceived like everything planners come up with who have never

@philritz1 lived in the last hi rise dystopian damp infected piss stench lift utopia they came up with. And corporates have abandoned cities already for their out of town shop centres, knowing there's no money/access to centres; lockodwns will kill off much what is left: the Labour council

@philritz1 Newport spent 30 yrs trying to lure Debenhams in now they are gone & they destroyed hundreds indigenous businesses to make way for them vast cost. It is an absolute shit hole the place; and it used to be a lovely marketplace town, organic not planned. Same London eg Kensington

@philritz1 High st was wonderful thousands small biz fashion market/Hyper Hyper now corporate sterile cultural life. You CANNOT plan cities without understanding culture of those who live & visit it that bring it to life. WTF is Walthamstow without dog track & adjoining club it's dead?

@philritz1 Destruction communities for investor boom with sterile at best & misery at worst always the result of planners who don't consider the unique nature of those who live in them. You don't go to Marrakesh to see a globalist identikit city you go for the souk; and eg

@philritz1 they actually make the gorgeous artisanla leather products right there in the depths of the souk, and the livestock they are from local and fed people to boot. NOTHING greener rather than all that mass tat synthetic made in China with coal non durable spivvery from WEF mob

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