They are also failing to bring local communities with them. Development must be attractive to win support for the new homes we need.
The proposal is criticised for hitting the vulnerable and breaking an election pledge. Local transport schemes are also being hit.
The need to reform the Conservative Councillors Association is ignored.
If the capital grows, as it has done, so should its boundaries. We cannot stick our head in the sand to the changing needs of our great cities.
It is a relic of an out-of-date fashion for the big and artificial rather than the small, local and rooted.