Arch-Tory/NIMBY Nicholas Clarke on Twitter @drmagwai
And what you fail to mention is that lvt only works properly when all land is already developed. Do we want the UK to become a mega city?
This is the sort of baseless crap that we have to deal with.
I remember that Sobers (I think it was him) once advanced the argument that LVT would only work for an agricultural economy, also without justification or explanation.
As per usual, we are presented with two baseless arguments which cancel each other out.
Let's take a breath and do facts and logic:
1. Most of the UK by surface area is 'developed'. Up to one-tenth is actually built on (incl. roads, reservoirs, back gardens etc) and most of the rest has been 'developed' or adapted for farming and some bits have been kept close to pristine for tourism, leisure, wildlife etc.
2. Even if both arguments, taken in isolation had some validity (which they don't), then it would be quite easy to split up the UK (or any similar country) into two regions - the urban bits (where LVT would work properly, even by Nimby Clarke's own admission) and the remaining rural area (where LVT would work fine by Sobers' admission).
3. The UK is not going to become a mega city any time soon - with or without LVT - it would require a twenty-fold increase in population to about one billion to make it worthwhile. So that is the stupidest rhetorical question of the day.
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