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NEW: The Labour MP Rosie Duffield has called on her party to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which she said amounts to “social cleansing” and is an “anti-feminist and unequal piece of legislation”https://t.co/9EFu7vOQ0U
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Coupled with the UK's chronic housing shortage, the result was that the increased cost was immediately passed on to renters. Bad enough when interest rates were ultra low, but now...
Osborne's policy is essentially a tax on renters. If there is any Osborne era policy that needs scrapping, start there.
Edit - it is now.
Outage Outrage Over
I doubt it makes much difference in Scotland if Labour retain it, Yougov has 59% of Scots backing the 2 child benefit cap
Rosie Duffield isn't exactly "The labour Left".
I expect this is in the "priority when we can afford it" bucket.
I wonder how many years the "I can't find enough f*cking money because the f*cking Conservatives f*cked it all up for fourteen f*cking years" line will hold for convincingly?
Verstappen: "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how i ended up in this situation..."
https://x.com/elmejordelresto/status/1815033197232542109/photo/1
That's rather different to the £1.3bn number in other sources.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87rp0xr3ydo
How it works
You get Child Benefit if you’re responsible for bringing up a child who is:
under 16
under 20 if they stay in approved education or training
Only one person can get Child Benefit for a child.
There’s no limit to how many children you can claim for.
North Korean Military Capabilities & Strategy - Nukes, Numbers & (bad) Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF5SSQA8VPU
If a landlord has a mortgage, its a broken system that its the tenants paying for it from their salary and not the landlord paying for it from their own.
Rent should be at a rate less than mortgage repayments. It is in many countries without a broken housing system.
For the avoidance of doubt this would not affect me personally either way
For benefits recipients the UC is more than generous enough.
I don't think even one of our posters when roaring drunk would have done something like that.
While I get the general idea was to make BTL less profitable, when you have a chronic supply shortage, landlords can more or less charge what they want. This is obvious from the post 2017 spike in rental prices, and again over the last couple of years with interest rates rising significantly.
The idea was to make landlords pay more, but in practice all that has happened is that they have passed their increased costs on to the tenant. Like I say, it's a tax on renters, not on landlords.
I'm not so sure. I think that the rents are ultimately set by the overall demand and supply of housing in an area - not just that for rental properties. If increased costs for landlords mean that some rental properties aren't made available to renters, those properties don't just disappear.
There has been a significant change in housing tenure over the last 10 years, with a 28% increase in the number of households renting. Unless you think that for reasons of flexibility renting has become much more popular, this must be due to some change in housing supply.
When I was searching for my first flat, I was repeatedly matched by cash buyers seeing my city as an investment opportunity. In some cases, it was someone borrowing money from the bank to do the same. Much of the demand for rental properties comes from people like me who, despite having a significant deposit and a good job, simply could not compete with these people.
If you want to fix the system so that renters pay less there's plenty that needs fixing, starting with massively increasing supply.
Tinkering with taxes on those who are trying to get capital gains from their tenants salary isn't a priority.
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What if Biden keeps forgetting he’s agreed to step down
Essentially they're banking on getting re-elected through economic revival and the repair of public services (chiefly the knackered old NHS) going hand in hand. Social Security claimants (except, of course, pensioners) are at the back of the queue and will get scraps from the table only if there are any to spare. In this sense, at least, we're dealing with continuity Conservatism: if you can't afford to live then you're not working hard enough.
The consensus of sensible commentators is that he can't beat Trump. Whether someone else can beat Trump may be open to question, but if one accepts the consensus view it must be worth trying,
But Biden himself is evidently suffering from cognitive impairment and those around him seem to be pushing him to carry on.
He can't realistically be forced to stand down. Can he practically defy opinion to continue?
Whatever the answer is, one has to feel sorry for him.
Tax and benefits can produce hugely poor motivations.
Does he really think that? Hard to tell, when his whole shtick is "saying outrageous stuff because can".
Shows the limits of both cancel culture and editorial standards at the house magazine of the thinking right.
Thems the breaks if you write articles like that.
What the hell were they thinking (a) publishing that in the first place (b) seemingly still having it up online?
I'm not easily shockable but WTF. A mouthful of my complimentary GWR sparkling water ended up on the table.
That will teach me not to look at what is trending on Twix when train-bored. I feel soiled.
On one side, the nationalist right, fearful of immigration and keen to encourage births in the native population. Together with them the socialist left, and some of the traditionalist and religious right who were never comfortable with mothers working.
On the other, the Thatcherites sceptical of benefits spongers, the fiscal hawks wanting to keep a tight austerity grip on spending, and the eco-catastrophists obsessed with overpopulation.
Because you can only know WTF by reading the damn thing.
https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1815016914382409829
Another Spectator style note, judging by Fraser Nelson’s original tweet, is the use of “tho” instead of “though”. No idea why, but it seems to be a thing.
I would reduce it to zero.
Also I didn't post it, just posted words to the effect that I wasn't very impressed with it (to put it mildly).
Or was that a dramatic flourish - @Leon will be bereft if he is banned from linking his hero?
No further action over the Verstappen and Hamilton collision #F1 #HungarianGP
Verstappen claimed Hamilton moved under braking.
Stewards say video evidence and telemetry showed Hamilton followed his normal racing line, so didn't move under braking "although it is our determination that the driver of Car 44 could have done more to avoid the collision" #F1
https://x.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1815072610260300131
Or, to put it another way, don't let great be the enemy of good. (I'm sorry, because there's no space for gardens, there's no point in building homes here.)
> Certified to be on general election ballot = 14 states (184 total Electoral Votes)
Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Hawai'i, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah
> Petitions awaiting certification to qualify for ballot = 17 states (218 EVs)
Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington.
> Automatic write-in (write-in votes for RFK Jr will be officially counted and reported) = 3 states (15 EVs)
Alabama, Vermont, Wyoming
source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr._2024_presidential_campaign
SSI - When Kennedy the Younger announced he was running as an Independent for President, yours truly said that I though he'd end up gaining ballot access in all 50 states plus District of Columbia.
So far he's achieved that in 34 states (417 EVs out of 538) leaving 16 states plus DC left, including Arizona, Maine, Virginia, Wisconsin.
RFK Jr may not get the whole hog, but feel sure he'll make the ballot one way or another just about everywhere with only a handful (or perhaps two) of exceptions.
*Betting post*
England are currently 248/3.
OVER/UNDER (435.5)10/11 on Ladbrokes
I feel that England have to play extraordinary to add close to 200 runs to reach 436.
Apologies if am wrong.`
It was quite close but it paid out in the end.
Hope some of you managed to get a bet on.
Those around Biden are clearly part of the problem , telling him what he wants to hear .
Apparently Biden feels betrayed and angry , he needs to stop whining .
On the birth of your third child, you get a 5 bed house in a nice new garden city, that is in one of the areas that the country is trying to “level up”
A free house.
It’s not 640 acres of Norte Mexico, but..
EDIT - Or maybe better yet, the "Wanker"?
The old Low Life column, years back, I was convinced I used to drink in that pub.
Anyway, a decent enough write-up by the Irish Times;
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/07/16/the-spectators-summer-bash-is-the-power-party-of-westminster-and-its-fuel-is-champagne/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/live/cx0092z3n9xt#LiveReporting
(And I highly advise you not to read Lolita.)
Work all your life to make a nice home for potential children - you're screwed. Just have the children - no worries.
I never unnecessarily use my brake. I drive at a sensible enough speed that I normally never need to brake; I use my gears to regulate my speed
When I have clear road in front I never break the speed limit (50 mph for vans on single carriage roads; why it's 60 for these massive, weighty, people-carrying SUVs wtfk), but I corner considerably quicker than the braking morons behind me. I leave them behind at the bends, but they obviously catch me on the straights
When I have a car in front going slower, I just leave a decent gap so I don't have to brake when they inevitably and idiotically do
I like to try to make the braking morons behind think that my brake lights are broken
Just before I returned my last leased car (a Skoda Fabia), it had to go into the the dealer's for a well overdue service. I got a call from them while it was being serviced; they wanted to know who had replaced the brakes. They could see I had original Skoda brake pads and discs, but no record of them being changed
It took quite a while to convince them that I hadn't had them replaced, even though I'd have to have been an idiot to have had it done elsewhere with full service lease contract
They told me that the brakes looked like they'd done twenty thousand miles, but the car had done eighty thousand
Drive like me
A major trench was being dug in the main road, tons of cones, diggers and even a portacabin.
The hole was being contemplated by literally 8 blokes in hi-zi, all armed with the largest size of disposable coffee cup from StarFucks.
One young lad, the runt of the litter, was in the hole, digging by hand. While they made joking comments at his expense.
Lean into the way things roll, rather than fight it.
Much like my idea to make all the technical colleges into unis and grant degrees. So your plumber will have a PhD. Break down the trade vs white collar divide - make every plumber learn some Keats and every Art Historian should learn to weld.
Or the triumph of battery storage. It may not be the best solution, but it’s the one that is happening while tickets have another 20 year enquiry about picking their noses or something.
A rare example of very old being slightly enhanced - to my mind - by very new
You need all sorts of specialist trades at particular points and if there are shortages of those specialisms the projects will be delayed. This is one of the reasons why the lunatic idea of mass building construction needs to be debunked. Between the lack of specialist trades and the lack of buyers at the prices the developers want to charge in order to make a profit the "housing" problem is going to remain a problem.
Unless you have a free plot from somewhere.
The cost of slicing your money budget a little is increasing the time budget from 3-4 years to 6-8 years.
Access needs to be broadened.
(They all 'work' on multiple sites and they all aren't who they say they are)