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Toby Lloyd

@tobylloyd.bsky.social

Policy wonk, former spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.

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Toby Lloyd@tobylloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

The OBR's recent report on investment has this startling chart, but not the data behind it. Do the green lines turn negative in the 1980s due to the New Towns Development Corporations paying off their debts, council house sales under the Right to Buy, or something else? obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

Bar chart showing public sector net investment in the UK since 1948.
Toby Lloyd@tobylloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

This. Obsessive parochialism is the mark of the true Londoner. And real Londoners don’t just not get the tube, they don’t even live in places on the tube map. Also, the real divide is not the Thames but the Fleet: west London is basically Buckinghamshire.

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's a tradition as old as time, Toby. It means nothing at all. In any case, we can all unite in agreeing that west London is the absolute worst, barely London at all.

Toby Lloyd@tobylloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? A million pounds of public spending isn’t enough to count as loose change (equivalent to about 1p out of every £12,200).

Toby Lloyd@tobylloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky has finally - and suddenly - achieved the critical mass of interesting/smart/informed contributors needed to provide me with my preferred diet of digestible geekery. Thanks Elon!

Thomas I-G@thomasig.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Treasury’s stifling fiscal rules are a huge barrier to long-term growth, it forces successive govts to choose between short-term political goals and meaningful projects which have a lasting benefit well beyond any political cycle - the former often comes out on top. An excellent read from Conor

Nearly Legal@nearlylegal.co.uk · 2y ago

OK, it might just be the former 'legal twitter' crew moving here en bloc and reassembling, but my impression is of a serious shift of (intermittently) serious people to this place over the last few days. Including some deliberately giving up big followings. This is qualitatively new.

Toby Lloyd@tobylloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nice piece. The importance of local government is always underplayed in our national story. And I never thought I’d see the words ‘Stockport Municipal Reform Jug’ used together.

Victorian Commons@victoriancommons.bsky.social · 2y ago

With #LocalElections taking place tomorrow, here’s a reminder of our blog on the new system of local government elections created by the 1835 Municipal Reform Act, which transformed the way in which local town councils were chosen. Find out more here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/1...

Dave Thompson 🇨🇦@davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 3y ago

This is exactly what we need to be doing, right now - for greater housing + transportation affordability, regional livability, food security, wilderness preservation, energy security, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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