Is Suella Braverman saying until a few weeks ago the truth never bothered her? –politicalbetting.com
Is Suella Braverman saying until a few weeks ago the truth never bothered her? – politicalbetting.com
What is anyone meant to think when they see this sort of bizarre comment? You were a “Tory” for decades. You served as a “Tory” Secretary of State. Does that mean that until 2 weeks ago the truth never bothered you either? pic.twitter.com/oKrsmZqFIs
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https://x.com/TomTugendhat/status/2022755330908619078?s=20
I am very hopeful Fareham stays Tory in May and gives her 2 fingers
(You'll all be delighted to know I've made an agreement with a very long term lurker and Westminster village person that if Matt Goodwin loses the by-election I will never use that photo again.)
There's been a big shortening of the Lab GE price in the last few days btw. Not sure why?
Intelligence agencies say deadly toxin in skin of Ecuador dart frogs found in Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/alexei-navalny-poisoning-death-russia-frog-toxin
One last rodeo as Chief of Staff?
Times says he likes the foreign stuff and is not interested.
What could Starmer offer to make him reconsider?
What has caused that change?
RRRRRRRRRRRRRR
For short.
It’s pronounced as if you are a pirate from Devon.
Reform has a handful.
Labour has most.
The dynamic will not exist to disrupt that to the point of crossover.
I'm watching the wimen's freeski big air. It's being led by an American woman called Eileen Gu who is competing for China, who have apparently spent $6m dollars on her and another American.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gu
We are about to get to the Berlusconi stage in UK politics. If we are lucky.
If we aren’t, it will be Argentina for some decades.
What actually happens is it shafts future tenants, because there is nowhere to rent, because it's not worth being a landlord, and definitely not worth building more houses to rent out.
If you don't believe this, look at the council house system. That's got artificially low rents, with the result that councils can't afford to build more. Guess what - council houses turn out to be amazing deals for tenants, but it's virtually impossible to get one, with waiting lists of years, even if you're poor.
Like everybody else at the Brixham Pirate Festival.
https://www.saltwaterescapes.co.uk/whats-on/brixham-pirate-festival/
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-hi5gx-2b0c9324
Snowflakes...
Not only had I never heard of her, I was unaware of her sport until half an hour ago.
Labour seems to be moving from Denial to Something Will Save Us as the May elections approach.
https://x.com/i/status/2022770204116136133
Linked to American Uni offer that she and Tory Party and parts of right wing media have tried to hide
We always go back to the Midlands for a week for some peace and quiet.
I think that will have something to do with it someone was trying to back Rupert Lowe to be next PM at 20/1 six months ago. It was absolutely ludicrous, but the money was there, so I guess it could be the same person or group of people. Maybe even Lowe himself
A reboot of our social housing sector - with controlled rents - is imo one of the best things we could do. A great use of resource with benefits on many levels.
A version of the same problem you highlight btw applies in the private sector too where rents are free market. Houses aren't built unless profit margins are high enough, which in turn bakes in ever higher prices.
Labour Together, the group that helped make Keir Starmer leader, hired lobbyists who falsely suggested reporters were linked to Russia
The group that helped to get Sir Keir Starmer elected as Labour leader hired lobbyists to investigate the personal, political and religious background of a Sunday Times journalist behind an article about secret donations that funded its work.
Labour Together paid £36,000 to Apco, a US public affairs firm, to examine the “backgrounds and motivations” of reporters behind a story before the general election. The aim was to discredit The Sunday Times’s reporting by falsely suggesting its journalists might be part of a Russian conspiracy or had relied on emails hacked by the Kremlin.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-activists-smear-sunday-times-journalists-kd269klb8
I pop up to see my mates
Michael and Andy.
Thats where I get all the dirt from.
It's goid
Timed for the local council elections.
Government spending other people’s money, by regulation, is one of the reasons that house building collapsed in London. So we have a Labour government and Mayor taking about eliminating the requirement to include x% of affordable flats in developments.
Regulations should be simple, direct. And enforced. They are replacing cladding, right now, with.. possibly unsafe cladding.
If the government wants to create cheap housing, it needs to do one of
- Subsidies rents
- Building housing itself and charge below the market rate
- Create a regulatory environment where replacing a window doesn’t consist of 4K for the window and spending 12k on the consultants to do the paperwork. The actual window being made in Poland, and never actually inspected to see if it matches anything in the £12k of paperwork. Could be made of balsa impregnated with napalm for that anyone knows.
Though others may
Then I look'd him in the eyes
And I laugh'd full shrill at the lie he told
And the gnawing fear he would fain disguise.
The irony is that since he arrived on here, Kemi's approval ratings continue to improve and that should be the leason that it is not working
A claim of a university offer for a medical course on a part scholarship at 16.a further claim her UK school was crap.
At that time the alleged university Stamford denied all knowledge, denied the course existed, denied that it would be offered to a 16 year old with O levels.
The Tories then made claims of other offers frim other universities in the US UK elsewhere.
The Guardian and some right wing papers covered it.
Badenoch refused to reply or discuss questions. Other events took over.
The Tory line that the offer was made seemed to have held.
However 2 respected journalists, one in the UK one in the US picked up the story.
Futher forensic investigation has revealed a lot more depth, on the American claims, claims of other offers from the UK, claims about her UK school and conduct there and claims that are new about a rather amateurish attempt to cover the original claim up will be fully exposed.
It will be extremely damaging, make her attacks on others for far less serious and continued indiscretions look amateur and open a can of worms she simply won't be able to brush off this time.
We shall see when the allegations are made.
The reality is that if you want to make sure more housing is built, and therefore housing is more affordable, then you need to put in place a raft of measures, each of which might only have a small impact on its own, but which together get you where you want to be.
Here's an entirely non-exhaustive list from me:
1. Repace stamp duty with a small annual land value levy
2. Make getting planning permission (and land use change) a lot easier to get
2a. Have a presumption of 'yes' - a council needs to demonstrate why a development (from an individual home to a block of flats to an estate) should not happen, rather than the other way around
3. Relax some of the rules around 'net zero' in construction - yes we should be building more energy efficient homes... but not at the expense of building too few homes
These attack the problem from multiple angles: they encourage more efficient use of existing housing stock, make the market clear more easily, make it easier to get permission to build, and then make it cheaper to build once you have permission.
And you know what: if there are lots of properties available for rent, then suddenly it is tenants that have power, rather than landlords. They're the ones competing to get you in rather than the other way around.
Labour's dominant figure for the last 30 years forwarding state secrets to American financiers pales into insignificance beside this doesn't it? Will we see 24 hour rolling coverage of the news do you think?
I note that you don't deny the fact that there are very serious questions to answer.
Ms holier than though is about to be challenged.
Let's she what she's made of
Meanwhile the lads wearing the Saudi kit won at the ground where Jewish fans aren't welcome.
I've not been watching folk pratting about in the snow, so can't comment on those activities.
The principled vegetarian who eats meat when he’s peckish
The multi millionaire whose brother died in poverty
What a guy
"Ace Starmer - what a guy!"
Rents are expensive because housing is expensive.
Housing is expensive because we've made permission to build houses very difficult to obtain and insisted on loads of expensive regulations about how houses are built, whilst at the same time importing millions more people all of whom need somewhere to live.
Any solution which doesn't involve making housing cheaper to build, or reducing the number of people chasing it is just pointless tinkering round the edges if you're lucky, or actively making matters worse if you're not.
2 not helpful
2a already the case
3 short term and dumb at a societal and environmental level. Fuel poverty destroys family life. We need to avoid climate catastrophe.
4 allow councils to levy a 10% council tax on unbuilt permissions in land banks. This would put either1.4million homes back into the build phase or drive land value down. Making home building more profitable.
I do recommend Down Cemetery Road instead.
Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/2022771089340850653
Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
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Important news. The first opinion poll conducted since I announced yesterday that Restore Britain would become a national political party has us on 10%.
In this poll, we are ahead of the Lib Dems.
10%. In 24 hours.
I call that a bloody good start.
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2022767014364762165
Scope for an interesting discussion on individuality and creativity. If it goes there.
In the short term, yes, you'd get piles of homes finished to dodge the tax (although this will be limited by the fact there isn't spare building capacity in the country to build 1.4 million extra houses any time soon). Medium to long term, you'd get less houses built and at higher prices.
Buying land and getting planning permission is a slow and expensive activity. Developers don't actually do it for the fun of it, they do it do they've a supply pipeline of more places to build houses, so their workforce can keep building houses at a steady rate (this being by far the cheapest way to do it). The pool of 1.4 million plots with planning and nothing happening now will mostly be a different pool to five years ago.
Developers can also only sell houses on large developments at a given rate without crashing the price and as their margins really aren't that great, so they'd usually be better off not building at-all than building all the houses on a development and crashing the price for which they can sell them.
If you penalise house builders for holding the land required to make their business model work, you're increasing their costs. With increased costs, they'll only be able to make a profit by selling more expensive houses. That means the more marginal, cheaper, houses won't get built. Trebles all round for you, lefty idiots.
1,000 size
https://x.com/i/status/2022770204116136133
Yes that's right that regulation and increased population drives rents and prices higher. But so do other factors - eg the long period of ultra low interest rates, the explosion of btl and other mortgage products, and the lack of social housing.
No silver bullets (to echo rcs) but I do think this last point is important and it's one that's amenable to government action.
I'm genuinely curious, as I think McSweeney tried - and very much failed - to get voters like you back onside. For one if the Blue Labour strategy isn't viable, maybe they should just go for some kind 'National Popular Front' strategy (i.e. try to cannabilise the Greens and max out the left liberal vote as much as possible).
It is meaningless.