Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
?/ With the Green Party conference ongoing, we looked at the views of Green members% of members with a favourable view of…Carla Denyer: 85%Zack Polanski: 79%Sian Berry: 78%Adrian Ramsay: 60%Ellie Chowns: 59%Jeremy Corbyn: 83%Ed Davey: 58%Keir Starmer: 18%yougov.co.uk/politics/art…
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I love reading landlord forums and seeing how they think they’re doing everyone a favour. Delulu levels off the charts.
Snake oil meets first contact with reality down in Kent:
"Diane Morton, Reform’s cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services in Kent were already “down to the bare bones”.
“We’ve got more demand than ever before and it’s growing,” she said, stressing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. “We just want more money.” "
Guardian Live blog
This is something that actually unites NFL and rugby - they both have major problems with brain damage to players and haven’t found a way to really fix it
The clash of offensive and defensive lines is the shield wall reincarnated.
There's even a team called the Vikings.
The reason? Polanski is returning to his family name, denied to him due to anti-Semitism. Tommeh changed his name because he's a criminal.
We all know the funding model for local govt is broken.
Honestly the obsession with Reform borders on the deranged here.
Politicians say what they need to get elected then ‘find problems’ and blame others.
No different to any other party.
Small %.
80K members now apparently. How many have just joined to use the party as the new new left-wing vehicle?
We are heading to having two parties of the Radical Left if Corbyn gets his act together and it will be very hard to tell them apart.
The first was when they wrote to the government saying they didn't want restrictions on visas for social care workers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx201znge11o
I wonder if they will become two parties. In cities the Corbynite hard left in the countryside fluffy environmentalists opposing any development
Like I say no different to other parties in that respect.
Saying what they expected their base wanted to hear
I'm joining the exodus to the Greens. Only a threat of Farage winning in a constituency I was voting in and a vote for Labour preventing it would change my mind. Mahmood is indistinguishable from Badenoch and Starmer has reverted to the unthinking Zionist of a year ago. This is no longer a recognisable Labour Party. If Labour sleep with the Angels God help the Angels!
I'm going to start donating today in case I weaken.
ZACK's MY MAN!
The last lot I read about ran some kind of central service renting office space for government departments. As they had pretty much all been sacked landlords were creaming the money in as no one was negotiating with them and the government was still occupying the offices.
It’s a massive issue that urgently needs addressing on a cross party basis. Problem is any attempt to solve it is greeted by immediate opposition for party political advantage and all parties are at fault on that respect
Though like Reform with immigration they do need a full range of policies if serious about government.
I think Polanski will squeeze out "Your Party" fairly quickly. They are simply too factional.
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1975081937346687114
Greta should use hers: Tintin Thunberg
America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling down stairs. I said: ‘It’s not our president. We can’t have it.’ I’m very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs for – like I’m on stairs, like these stairs, I’m very – I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record, just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy. We don’t want that. Need to walk nice and easy. You not have – you don’t have to set any record. Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don’t, don’t bop down the stairs. That’s the one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen – da da da da da da, bop, bop, bop, he’d go down the stairs, wouldn’t hold on. I said, it’s great, I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen and it only takes once, but he did a lousy job as president.
What have landlords to do with it?
(French PM)
Sebastien Lecornu lasted 27 days, which equates to 2.45 Scaramuccis, or about 0.55 Liz Trusses
https://x.com/realBenBloch/status/1975107409174810809
Surely you are too old for student politics?
Sadly, this casts a shadow over her entire period as Germany’s chancellor. I won’t even start talking about Nord Stream here.
https://x.com/markomihkelson/status/1975067451076616553
If there was a housing surplus your point would have some merit but we don’t so it doesn’t.
The 2025-26 Budget had been passed by the previous administration - the Blue Book containing details of all council expenditure was in the public domain but Reform couldn't or wouldn't go through it before the election and identify areas of potential savings apart from the pensions (which Reform think they can manage better than the LPGS).
I do agree the funding model for local Government is broken - the tax base remains the 1991 revaluation for residential properties which is absurd. Property owners now need to contribute a reasonable sum based on the true value of their properties while somebody (and perhaps Reform can have a go) needs to resolve the funding of social care for vulnerable adults AND children as well as dealing with SEN referrals and the cost of temporary housing accommodation (perhaps once the migrants have gone, we can use the hotels to house our actual homeless).
So when Gordon sold the gold, he simply announced to the market beforehand, and crashed the price. Then sold. This actually caused moderately serious difficulties for the ANC government in South Africa - who actually asked why they were being attacked.....
The problem for the Greens is that they can't advocate building more. So they need a squirrel to point to on housing.
I am struggling to reconcile the twin images of Trump as a pathetic old coward and wannabe cosplay dictator, and the reality of nameless people acting out his authoritarian fantasies on the streets of America.
Where is Congress? Where are the Courts? What of the famed checks and balances of the Constitution?
I'm also still waiting for Farage to suffer by association with the Trump madness in America. Hasn't happened yet.
And most of them want to bulldoze over the countryside to build more homes.
Time for a new party.
Jim Gavin (Fianna Fail) has withdrawn from the race, leaving Heather Humphreys (Fine Gael) and Catherine Connolly (Independent Left) as the only two candidates.
Latest poll had Connolly leading Humphreys by 53-47, well within the historical error of Irish Presidential polls (often out by 10pp).
In a debate yesterday lunchtime Gavin could not say whether he owed a former tenant thousands of Euros in overpaid rent. So I guess he wasn't going to win anyway.
Over the last 10 years we've built about 2 million houses, but the number of households renting has increased by 1.3 million. Just building houses isn't enough - you need to do something about tenure too.
Freed from any actual responsibility, the politicians start doing stupid stuff.
A classic is child care. New Labour bought in regulations that made UK child care the most expensive in the developed world. The cost of a nurse place is pretty much that of private school.
So
1) The people who can afford private school send their children to high quality nurseries. This includes most MPs, of course.
2) The people who can afford a big house and have au pair park the kids with the random stranger they fond God Knows where.... and who will live with them for 6 months and move on.
3) The people who can't afford big houses and private schools make impromptu arrangements which are very often illegal and unregulated.
There is no "Oh err. Nursery = Private Skool = EVUL", interestingly. Despite the long known evidence that the early years of a child's development are critical. A child attending a good nursery will have a massive advantage over the kids who rock up in primary school unable to go to the toilet by themselves.
‘Blistering buggery by a baton!’
So they are boxed in - increasing population and can't increase the places for them to live.
Mind you, I met a Green once who had thought it through. Her vision of the future was mega-skyscrapers of small flats. Home working would be mandated for as many as possible to cut down on travel. Food would be provided by the government and delivered en masse. I did check and she had no idea what I was talking about, when I made suggestions about law and order in such an environment.
Whilst being (imv) hopelessly unrealistic about both the realities of winning political power and the economic situation this country is in, it's an interesting listen to understand Polanski's popularity and how the Greens might interact with both Labour and Your Party. (TL;DL a coalition with Labour will be beyond the pale before any election but will almost certainly become palatable if the numbers work after an.election)
https://pca.st/episode/bbc19796-c4f9-447a-a693-998acce42a64
Another day, another policy from the Conservatives which will beg the inevitable question - if it's such a good idea now, why didn't you implement it in the time you were in Government? The commitment to reduce the size of the Civil Service (and we all know there were ways of reducing the headcount without sacking a single individual) has been there since 2016 but instead the Service has added an extra 130,000 roles.
There's also an aim of cutting £23 billion from the welfare budget - now, it's true the welfare side is spiralling out of control - from £64 billion now to £100 billion by 2030 though that may be a function of an ageing population. £23 billion is a big amount - apparently to be funded from cutting off claimants with "lower level mental health issues" (apparently).
Curious the party couldn't support the more modest £5 billion cuts proposed by the Government earlier this year.
I may have heard that somewhere else before...
Two examples:
It would be fascinating to know for what reasons more Greens prefer a deal with the LDs than with Labour.
And why such a large % of them would be happy with in a deal with a party that doesn't exist - far more than with actual real parties.
As much as Reform, Greens deserve close up examination of their agendas.
That is, you can't make a profit from renting a place with large amounts of debt against it.
This has been observed everywhere there is a functional property market (8%+ of properties empty due to lack of demand). This is because prices get set by those who have significant capital in the properties, allowing them to make a return at a lower price.
I rather dislike the '"they're annoying the right sort of people" line of 'thinking' that's becoming ever more popular in political discourse.
An idiot can be right sometimes. The wise can be wrong. And annoying any group of people is not a reason to do anything. It's just throwing more excrement into the cesspit of negativity, of which we already have an overflowing abundance.
I know you're saying this in a lighthearted way, so please don't take it as an attack on yourself. Some people, alas, see it as an end in itself. Such is polarised political division for fundamentalists.
Perhaps this government will make private landlords a 'fair but generous' offer to sell to the local council - at a 40% discount.
That would be shit, wouldn't it?
We all know that rent controls don’t work for a whole number of reasons, although one gets the impression that New York might be about to give the World a refresher course in 2026.
I disagree with the final point from TSE though. Polanski has made clear he sees Farage as his enemy and 99% of Green voters rule out a Coalition with Reform and disapprove of Farage. Over half of Green voters back a coalition with Labour though so on a forced choice in a Labour seat many would cast tactical votes for Labour to beat Reform
We have constructed a system where you can't build properties at the rate of demand/population growth. In law. Which is enforced.
I go back to my farmer friend, who couldn't get the police out to deal with serious theft, damage to buildings etc. He started putting the roof back on an abandoned outbuilding - to create a secure store (massive stone walls).
The fuzz and the planners were round, before he'd got the building materials off the pallets.
McLaren are going to fuck this up.