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That alone will win her a landslide.
This is a failing organisation led by an out of touch person, the Queen needs to go lest we do see an outsider end up killing themselves thanks to the rules of the 'firm.'
If this was any other organisation it would be called a failing institution with the police involved.
Edit - And I notice you've gone all Corbynite calling unimpeachable facts 'smears.'
And FPT as I slept well last night. You don't understand how housing occupation works.
The rental sector is far more densely occupied than the Owner Occupied sector, so when you move X people from the rental sector to OO - by whatever mechanism you are using to close down rental - you need a lot more houses.
I posted the stats the other day. These are in the English Housing Survey.
Nearly Half of OO houses are underoccupied - the official stat is 2 or more spare bedrooms.
For rental that is under 10%.
Therefore you are creating a lot of people with nowhere to live - homeless.
And you need to have a policy where you will put the people you are making homeless.
I find 'Gav' Williamson tremendously reassuring & I do hope he stays in place.
It is good to be reminded that the lowliest fool can rise to the very top with a mixture of bluff, fraud & luck.
It is a bracing antidote to those sentimental stories of people who got to the top through merit, intelligence & hard work.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12762748/prince-andrew-splashes-16k-on-private-jet/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/11351404/Air-Miles-Andy-flies-again-Duke-of-York-visited-15-countries-and-clocked-up-67000-miles-in-2014.html
Your taxes and mine pay for that rule breaker to have a great life.
Never have I seen a more pathetic example of narcissism and self indulgence than from these 2 multi millionaires as seems to be the case with this disgraceful interview.
Trashing in public the family who made them (with the exception of the Queen knowing full way if they attacked her that would destroy them), trashing Prince Charles despite all the funds they received from the Duchy of Cornwall. Factually wrong too, as Archie is not the son of an heir to the throne he by definition could not be a prince but he got a title as Earl of Dumbarton which they then renounced when they abandoned their royal duties.
I wish never to see or hear from this pair ever again and may they be exiled from these shores never to set foot here again. They are the 21st century Duke and Duchess of Windsor without the class!
The King (Or Queen) and by extension the royals are an institution as old as England/Britain itself. Markle won't derail it.
Foie Gras is cruel.
And @tlg86 is right about the housing market.
Good morning everyone.
Two days after my AZ/Oxford jab and I am feeling dreadful. Had a real bad night - fever, chills, terrible muscle pains and severe headache.
I knew there were some fever like effects for a day or so. But this has poleaxed me. Anyone else had a bad reaction? How many days does this last?
Also, I noticed last week you said Boris Johnson was a social democrat, so in your head he's as much as a Tory as me!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/27/elliott-johnson-young-tory-destroyed-by-party-he-loved-mark-clarke
That happened on Cameron's watch.
Do you not read anyone else's posts?
As for the idea of using under occupation (2 or more spare bedrooms) as the basis of anything beyond inappropriate use of housing stock I will leave things there especially as thanks to Covid those rooms are probably being used.
Our 5 bedroom house (3 occupied) now has separate working spaces for me (always been the case) and my wife who has only needed them due needing to WFH through covid.
I find it strange that the argument for "we need more houses to bring prices down" sits alongside "make renting more expensive", when the latter is occupied by people less well off than the former. And when many millions of
them do not have the opportunity to buy.
Complex issue. And it won't be moved forward by simplistic policies.
Unfortunately politicians are on the whole useless on this, and make a bigger mess every time tehy stick an oar in.
One thing I would say is to tilt policy towards increasing household size, which is down significantly since even the 1970s/1980s. But there are a lot of other nuances.
But Dave wasn't involved day to day with that in the way that the Queen was involved in a daily basis with Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Duchess of Sussex.
I have been very impressed with LIz Truss and she has enhanced her claim to the top spot
On the Megan interview I have to say it is very damaging to both sides and nobody can be sure how this pans out but I expect it will be extremely divisive
I am more than surprised that they were married 3 days before their lavish wedding ceremony and that was not known at the time of the ceremony
I do expect it ends their connection and titles with the Royal Family and it is certain changes will come about following the Queen's passing
If her main campaign was pushing abolition of the monarchy she would rightly get nowhere given 88% of Tory voters are monarchists
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2015/09/08/monarchy-here-stay
It's like the day after a GE when the winners are unbearably triumphant, as everyone deserves to celebrate - I should think theres a week of headlines and mopping up excitable saliva dribbles from this.
At least there were a few juicy accusations in there to make it worthwhile. And no I dont have a problem viewing it in those terms - with presentation and summary of things not said we are already teased for more to come so it was effective brand management even of sincere issues. It's managed like an entertainment project and can reacted to as such.
However, the logic in the above is, well, lacking.
Many owned houses are under-occupied because people buy family homes and don't necessarily move when the family moves out. For switch from rental to owned for the same housing stock to suddenly leave masses of homeless you need to argue that a family renting a house at full occupancy is, on buying a house, suddenly going to decide they want two houses to ensure spare rooms. Sure, they may desire a bigger house when buying (with an eye on a family/larger family in the future) but as demand won't have dropped they'll be priced into buying what they need.
There is the area of houses of multiple occupancy - students, single young workers - where these groups would be unlikely to buy together (although that does happen). These groups are not generally going to want to commit to ownership and will remain in the rental sector and/or one buyer with subletting/lodging.
You cannot however be a republican and be a Tory.
My wife and I had our second Pfizer vaccinations yesterday and became listless quite quickly but after a night's sleep feeling better but the arm is quite sore
It’s fine then wanting to say private vows. Expecting ++Cantab to officiate is a little pretentious
You have accepted and amplified that.
Shame on you
For me, the explosive revelations are that the family had “concerns” about the colour of their child’s skin. I hadn’t expected that. It is horrific.
It is great when you have kids and your parents dote on them 24/7.
#168HoursWorthOfFreeChildcareAWeek
You do come out with extraordinary rubbish at times
If that was not enough, the royal family was implicitly accused of racism when Meghan said that someone in the family had a conversation with Meghan about the colour of Archie’s skin.
As someone with mixed race children experience tells me that whoever brought up the skin colour of the kids has a bad heart.
I'd focus on the suicidal angle if making genuine criticism - it's more personal, not as implausible as implied nazi motivation, and harder to dismiss. Also Andrew as a focus. Those are weak points, not 'she a naziiiiiiiii'
https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1368853117870223360?s=20
https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1368854076205764610?s=20
But it has been presented in a particularly wounding and damaging way. Almost as if it was designed to attract ratings.
Out on my bike this morning. Zillions of children alone and in family groups heading to school.
Great sight.
It is very clever not to say who it was. Could be anyone, possibly very senior, so tars the lot and sets up a sequel. I'd have assumed phillip making a poor joke.
A friend of mine (who has had Covid) had the same reaction to you but it passed after about 12 hours. He had a terrible night.
Everyone else I know (including me) has had mild flu like symptoms for a day.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1368753624688566272?s=20
It seems to me that, much like Diana, Meghan offered an opportunity for the Royal Family to reach out and become relevant to many more people in the UK. I'm loosely republican (in principle, but not really bothered either way) so not too bothered about the fallout on that level, but it's sad to see a family fighting and particularly in public. The failures will harm both the Royal Family and Harry and Meghan, I expect.
Good morning, everyone.
Meghan: "While I was pregnant"
Harry: "Before we married"
And add the spin that "Archie wasn't a Prince because of his skin colour" (untrue) and it starts to look far from accidental.
That does not look good at all and makes the institution and its sycophantic admirers look cruel.
Discretion would have been the better part of valour, not saying anything at all until she spoke rather than building it up with all sorts of character assassination attempts first that magnify and play into what she has now said.
I'm lucky in the respect that my parents are wonderful and own a decent home, I think if they lived in a small semi detached house I wouldn't have moved back in as it just wouldn't be practicable.
This seems to sum things up as well and is my viewpoint
https://twitter.com/garius/status/1368852137321631744
Once the Queen has gone a Republic or a very slimed down Family is the future. Sadly the latter was already in progress until Charles and William scared away the most useful part of it.
The principle that a home being contributed to by the state being the size of accommodation needed for the household it is being funded for seems appropriate.
There are obvs wrinkles at the edges, and perhaps on the implementation, but the basic principle seems sound.
The weird thing I found with the 'Bedroom Tax' was that it was aiui essentially bringing PRS in the Social Sector HB into line with what had existed for years in the PRS, and all those bodies (Shelter and so on) yammering about how evil it all was appeared to care far more for the politics than the actual people - otherwise they would have said something about HB in the PRS years earlier. As far as I am aware they did not - though open to correction as it is some time ago.
@HYUFD was, because he is a man of great sense, insight and acuity, a remainer. Hence his worldview is that the UK is better inside the EU than outside it. As he is also a man of great probity, principle, and integrity, he does not of course change his mind on a whim to satisfy political expediency.
Hence his view is still that the UK is better off as an EU member.
Hence, and I say this with great regret given his position in the local Conservative Party, he is not a Tory.
It was a blessing. There are rules about weddings, especially when using an Archbishop’s Licence (I happy to know the rules as we had to get a special licence from ++Cantab for our wedding)
And how does a rental home with 1 family in it becoming a owner occupied home with 1 family in it change the dynamics of the rental market. Demand for rental housing drops by 1 house, supply of rental housing also drops by 1 house - in a market with x million rental properties the impact is always zero.
Now I shall go back to blocking it all out.
nuttermonarchistarchivist in The Times each year). Hundreds and hundreds overall.When some institution or other gets a visit from a member of the Royal Family it is a matter of huge anticipation and excitement.
Meanwhile, there are not that many working royals.
Not sure what slimming down ou are expecting, save to get rid of Sandringham/Balmoral perhaps saving a few quid.
"In their own hearts" is a good sumamry.