Let the British Isles return to their methods of conquest by flag.

Oh yes, because Merry Old England never did anything like that at all.

Some of them. If they demolished it most of it will have been destroyed

Not in every part of the US. They're tearing down over half of the 200 year old main street in a town near me. It's near collapse because no one took care of it, and now it's too expensive to repair so the town has to tear it down. People tried for years to get historic recognition for the individual properties but because the buildings were originally built as a complex and not as single structures they wouldn't grant it because parts of the complex of structures had been modified and modernized.

Maybe you wouldn't get your car stolen, but wouldn't it make it super easy for thieves to steal things from people's cars? Just collect a few different keys and you can open any Ford.

Luckily our councils don't give a flying fuck about the opinion of some random yank about the preservation of our historic buildings older than your entire country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We tend to believe that preserving historic buildings older than your entire country is more valuable than preserving the freedom of cowboy property developers to destroy them without permission.

Great. Nobody gives a flying fucking shit about your ignorant attitude to historical preservation either.

If you cared so much about living in the place you grew up in you should have paid the rent there.

> allow the land to be used for people who are actually living there

What we do over here, because we have more history than a Happy Meal, is preserve significant historic buildings so future generations get the chance to experience them. That's how we go on having more history than a Happy Meal.

Yup. What a sweet deal!

Not even remotely. If it's not a listed historic building you can do what you like with it.

You don't think the £1.5m it'll cost will teach them enough of a lesson?

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Also, stairs count for sqft for 2 floors! So you actually have less space than you even thought!

This is the kind of thing that is very location-dependent.

Their floor-plans are shit, too. Plenty of square-footage, but no actual floor space b/c that footage is divided between 3 levels and full of stairwells. ie - 1200 sq/ft with no room for furniture. But hey, at least they have the curb appeal of medieval tenements. Who wouldn't want in on that?^/s

The American way would be for an oil tycoon to buy the rubble of the English pub and have it rebuilt somewhere in Arizona.

The original parts are going to be reused

Same thing happened in Maida Vale/Kilburn with the Carlton Tavern

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/21/rising-from-the-rubble-london-pub-rebuilt-brick-by-brick-after-bulldozing

Oh, God, it's pedophiles. I was hoping it was gonna be something funny like people giving No Face lap-dances on the train. Why is it always pedophiles?

I had a red 1962 VW Bug in high school, when they were everywhere. I came out of work one day, unlocked my door, and started it up. I reached over to turn on the radio and had a weird deja vu-like disorientation as I realized that it wasn't my aftermarket stereo. Then I started looking around and noticing some other small differences (mine was mostly stock). It only took a few seconds to realize it wasn't my car.

I quickly shut it off, jumped out, and locked it up. I took a nervous look around to see if anyone thought I was stealing their car. Whew, nobody around. I then saw my car (I checked the plate number this time) just a few more spots further down the row in the parking lot. That was certainly an odd feeling. I guess those old VW keys weren't all that unique. 😀

Last I checked, some people isn’t all inclusive so I was never implying it was you.

Just because you fail to see the value in historical buildings doesn’t mean there is not value there, but ultimately that’s not what this case was about. This was about setting a precedent about building owners neglecting their buildings to get around historical designations and demoing buildings without permits and permission.

Take a Tesla, leave a Tesla. Free Little Car Exchange.

By repeatedly voting for them the British people are justifying and supporting their hateful ideology.

My 86 Oldsmobile had two keys, my 72 Mustang originally came with two.

Problem was, once the keys wore down a bit, you could get into any, other Ford with em. Thankfully, the ignition didn’t appear to suffer the same.