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You'd think that a misleading header on this page that promotes misinformation would be altered or updated? (Fancy reading something Lee Cain says and believing it and then printing it.) Some people obviously believe what they want to believe.


Kemi Badenoch

@KemiBadenoch
This is bullshit.

What I ACTUALLY said is we "cannot have another left-wing government. But I'm afraid that Reform has quite a lot of left-wing ideas. They want more benefits. They want nationalisation”
I then said.
On "deals, non-aggression pacts and so on....I'm just saying no. It's just no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/2065076212855124166

It's almost as if the press try to spin things. How unfair! That is the politicians job surely?

The party leaders are all at least a tad pathetic for something or other.

The press? Last week or so, from memory, someone on here was hounded for days by a group of people for an interpretation of something a Sky reporter said over pretty trivial stuff.

Today, a header goes up that is as incredulously factually wrong as you can get, that then gets lapped up as the truth by a load of people who like to think they know (and are) better.

Indeed and I was hounded over it but not a word today about Lee Cain's misinterpretation of this interview

https://x.com/LoftusSteve/status/2065056435201872349

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.

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?

You'd think that a misleading header on this page that promotes misinformation would be altered or updated? (Fancy reading something Lee Cain says and believing it and then printing it.) Some people obviously believe what they want to believe.


Kemi Badenoch

@KemiBadenoch
This is bullshit.

What I ACTUALLY said is we "cannot have another left-wing government. But I'm afraid that Reform has quite a lot of left-wing ideas. They want more benefits. They want nationalisation”
I then said.
On "deals, non-aggression pacts and so on....I'm just saying no. It's just no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/2065076212855124166

Tim Shipman appears to strongly dispute Badenoch's after the fact interpretation of the interview. He seems unusually annoyed given he's a very Tory sympathetic journalist wishing for the Tory "house journal"

https://bsky.app/profile/lauraphillips.bsky.social/post/3mnzjagjvas2z

Yeah I never know if Shipman is impartial or not

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.