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EXCL: The Green party is considering a new policy to ban circumcision, The Spectator can reveal.

Interesting policy when the leader is Jewish.

Only a small amount of circumcisions globally are Jews. Less than one in ten.

It’s non consensual, irreversible, genital mutilation. They’ve got a point

If people want their forskin lopped off make an informed decision as an adult.

A circumcisor is a pretty poor living too. The basic pay is poor. But you make it up with the tips.

It's an oldie, but it's a goodie.

It’s a gag I’ve been telling since I was a teenager. I’m 60.

Proposed amendment to the Triple Lock:

Continue with the highest of 2.5% annually, inflation and earnings, but rather than continuing to calculate the highest of those on an annual basis, freeze the date against which these are baselined to 6th April 2025 (the latest calculated lock date).

Triple lock.protected, but no longer such an escalator.

That’s not a bad idea as a political solution. Still mad compared to just fixing to CPI like other benefits.

For me the perfect policy would be making landlords ineligible for the State Pension. Your retired lifestyle should not rely on milking young people dry, and anyone with more than one house is minted anyway.

That would simply result in a stampede to sell second homes..

Crashing house prices for first time buyers

"milking young people dry"?

Do you think rents are high because all landlords are grasping greedy bastards or because there are not enough houses for the population?

I think it’s because there are so many young people on decent salaries who can pay that high rent but can’t build the capital to compete with investors.

I was repeatedly outbid by cash buying pensioners when I bought my first flat, some going 25% over home report. If we make housing a rubbish investment then demand, and therefore price, will crater in places like Edinburgh.

Telegraph guy was proposing bringing back MIRAS for first time buyers for their first ten years of mortgage the other day. And some thinktank proposed young people cutting their state pension in exchange for a deposit for house when young.

Interesting ideas but again supply is the issue.

Labour have failed in spades to build their target house building. It has been dismal.

Supply is an issue, but not the only one. We’ve built millions of homes over the last 30 years but the number being rented out has grown even faster.

Labour’s target was to increase the housing stock by 6% , which would have decreased prices by about 3% on current price elasticity. To put that in perspective, house prices have increased by 26% in the last 10 years.

https://x.com/hoffman_noa/status/2065070141004452214

EXCL: The Green party is considering a new policy to ban circumcision, The Spectator can reveal.

Interesting policy when the leader is Jewish.

Only a small amount of circumcisions globally are Jews. Less than one in ten.

It’s non consensual, irreversible, genital mutilation. They’ve got a point

If people want their forskin lopped off make an informed decision as an adult.

A circumcisor is a pretty poor living too. The basic pay is poor. But you make it up with the tips.

Trying to remember the joke about the man buying a bag made from an elephant foreskin. Complained about it being small and the shopkeeper said “yes but when you rub it”. Apologies.