Successive governments have kept pushing this back, but sooner or later someone's going to have to bite the bullet and spend it if Westminster is to continue to be the home of Parliament.
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Successive governments have kept pushing this back, but sooner or later someone's going to have to bite the bullet and spend it if Westminster is to continue to be the home of Parliament.
~£15bn over 19 years with a full decant ought be more than tolerable. Constitutionally, Parliament is comprised of its people, not the place, and can convene in any location — as it and earlier Parliaments did in earlier history.
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Successive governments have kept pushing this back, but sooner or later someone's going to have to bite the bullet and spend it if Westminster is to continue to be the home of Parliament.
~£15bn over 19 years with a full decant ought be more than tolerable. Constitutionally, Parliament is comprised of its people, not the place, and can convene in any location — as it and earlier Parliaments did in earlier history.
I think it'd genuinely be worth considering having the decant location be outside London. Perhaps Birmingham, Britain's second city, or York or Manchester or somewhere up north would be a good idea.
I'd think even a new building might be warranted, and maybe rotating Parliament's location every two Parliaments might be a good idea.
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I think it'd genuinely be worth considering having the decant location be outside London. Perhaps Birmingham, Britain's second city, or York or Manchester or somewhere up north would be a good idea.
I'd think even a new building might be warranted, and maybe rotating Parliament's location every two Parliaments might be a good idea.
@rhys Weren't the government also planning to build some new cities as part of trying to help solve some of the housing crisis the country has been in? That would be a great excuse to build a new facility able to suitably gather parlement, I haven't read the guardian article yet but that sounds like a hell of a lot of money and if the building is still in use and work is happening around business as usual I can only see that cost going up.
