Jeevun Sandher MP

On YIMBY Pod this week: James and Martin talk about a new campaign to ban delivery robots – and why it may prefigure a future political realignment. And then we speak to Labour MP Dr Jeevun Sandher about his recent posts on good growth in every postcode, and how Britain’s growth problem isn’t what we think it is. James’s undercover reporting from his tour of the Amazon warehouse is here. Martin’s piece on ‘picky bits’ and national decline is here, and his YouTube channel is here.

I’m a millennial, which means that my financial future will depend less on how hard I work than what I inherit. House prices have risen twice as fast as earnings in my lifetime. The boomers got a worker-based economy, we’re getting a wealth-based one. But while our economy changed, our tax system didn’t – and it’s made us all poorer. Since Thatcher came to power, wealth as a proportion of GDP has doubled; since 2010 alone, dividend payments have done the same.