Britain - The Official Thread

[MatskiMonk]

making more housing stock available

The other way of doing this is to build more social housing, and mandate private developers contribute to that, by either profits, or elbow grease, and a percentage of that are dwellings that are sensible for single occupancy situations.

All the government wants to do, is preserve the ever ballooning national value tied up in property, and promotes debt amongst young people. This needs to be torpedoed, which of course will never happen.

Shelter is one of the most basic human needs. We're a third world country if it becomes your whole life just to keep shelter over your head and food in your stomach.

 

[Dotini]

dwellings that are sensible for single occupancy situations.

In Seattle we have several of these tiny house villages for the homeless.

https://www.seattle.gov/council/issues/past-issues/tiny-house-villages

 

[DG_Silva]

The other way of doing this is to build more social housing, and mandate private developers contribute to that, by either profits, or elbow grease, and a percentage of that are dwellings that are sensible for single occupancy situation.

I agree, that's another solution and I believe that this is a second prong to the attack. However, that's a longer term solution - my suggestion is a shorter term answer to the problem we have.

 

[HenrySwanson]

What's going on here

 

[Tired Tyres]

What's going on here

Early and later day versions of newspapers.

Or in the Times case change due to a quiet word from someone

 

[Liquid]

There is a simple solution to this matter though, and while I know it sounds like communism, it actually makes sense; one person/company/organisation can only own two more properties than they have built, and that properties owned by companies are tied to the directors. This would prevent individuals from buying up extraordinary numbers of houses just to rent them out, making more housing stock available, and reducing the cost as scarcity is no longer an issue.

Politicians are some of the worst buy-to-leech plonkers around. Good luck getting them to ever vote away easy money.

 

[HenrySwanson]

Or in the Times case change due to a quiet word from someone

Stinks like hell:

Mystery surrounds Times exclusive claiming Boris Johnson wanted to give Carrie Symonds a £100,000 role

Why did one of the scoops of the year suddenly disappear from newspapers friendly to the prime minister?

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

The greased piglet squeals on

EDIT: Now something in the Guardian

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[axletramp]

Paul Daniels?

 

[Daz555]

Politicians are some of the worst buy-to-leech plonkers around. Good luck getting them to ever vote away easy money.

I thought the same but in recent years the Tories have introduced a fair few changes that only really hurt small time buy-to-let landlords. The sort of person who is basically just doing it to prop up their crumbling pension.

They have essentially done nothing to curtail industrial scale buying and letting of properties. Safe to assume plenty of our senior leaders are in the pockets of property billionaires and mega corps.

 

[Liquid]

Does anyone else think that the UK is veering towards some sort of general strike? I think there is a limit that a significant section of the public can handle and it is close to being exceeded.

 

[merseyxshore]

Does anyone else think that the UK is veering towards some sort of general strike? I think there is a limit that a significant section of the public can handle and it is close to being exceeded.

I hope so. I've also joined the Don't Pay movement, the public are pledging to stop paying all bills in October if the prices aren't lowered.

 

[Daz555]

Does anyone else think that the UK is veering towards some sort of general strike? I think there is a limit that a significant section of the public can handle and it is close to being exceeded.

It is very possible yes. I also think there is a significant chance of the UK returning to it's late 60s & 70s status of "sick man of Europe".

 

[HenrySwanson]

Of course he dodged the question

Labour must be secretly loving that he hasn't been turfed out

 

[PeterJB]

Of course he dodged the question

Labour must be secretly loving that he hasn't been turfed out

No doubt he'll just launch an enquiry to determine whether or not he did dabble in a bit of classic nepotism, since he seems to have selective memory loss over things he hopes he can do with nobody noticing.

 

[Sprite]

Well the By-elections in Wakefield, Tiverton & Honiton have seen the buffoon Boris loose two seats.

My constituency was taken back by Labour and the other by Lib Debs by quite a margin.

@Liquid I can’t see these strikes causing too much trouble for office staff who would normally feel this quite a bit with their commute. A lot of people are still working from home. Where it is impacting very hard is the already decimated High Street shops.

People just can’t get to town as easily.

Now I’m speaking more for the Wakefield area here because we’re contending with a Bus Strike too which has already being going on for a few weeks at this point. I know busses are running fine in other areas of the country.

@merseyxshore I’m not sure that’s going to work well. The energy providers will just follow their debt path and if that doesn’t work will just switch your Smart Meter to Pay As You Go, then no payment will return no energy.

I do think prices need to come down heck my own monthly Direct Debit has gone from £100 split between both fuels to £180 with a sizeable split favouring gas due to our draughty house not being efficient.

The huge costs are not just the kWh price but the Daily Standing Charge and the Price Cap hasn’t helped either. Personally I don’t see a change in costs for some time to come. At the earliest I’d say this time next year.

 

[Touring Mars]

I reckon if Boris believes that Rwanda is such a smashing place, he might consider staying there now.

 

[Dotini]

Does anyone else think that the UK is veering towards some sort of general strike? I think there is a limit that a significant section of the public can handle and it is close to being exceeded.

Social unrest of some kind seems in the wind due to crazy inflation in energy costs.

 

[Sprite]

I reckon if Boris believes that Rwanda is such a smashing place, he might consider staying there now.

Don’t get my hopes up.

 

[Scaff]

The huge costs are not just the kWh price but the Daily Standing Charge and the Price Cap hasn’t helped either. Personally I don’t see a change in costs for some time to come. At the earliest I’d say this time next year.

Given that the fuel price cap is due to rise again in October it's going to get worse again.

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[Moglet]

I'm already preparing my monthly outgoings for the October rise, our combined fuel payment is due to go from £245 a month to about £350 😞 Luckily I'll have paid off 2 outstanding debts by then and the company I work for is basing this year's salaries on the cost of living increases so I won't notice it as much but it's still a kick in the teeth.

 

[Sprite]

Given that the fuel price cap is due to rise again in October it's going to get worse again.

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Yeh, it’s a real pain.

I work in the energy sector and it’s a move we hate of OFGEM for making.

 

[PeterJB]

Well the By-elections in Wakefield, Tiverton & Honiton have seen the buffoon Boris loose two seats.

My constituency was taken back by Labour and the other by Lib Debs by quite a margin.

Wakefield's not so much of a surprise. Tiverton & Honiton is a fair new constituency but pretty much all of them in the South West could go either way with the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.

These results are a sign of things to come. The Red Wall is gonna come right back up as Sir Keir tries to moderate the Labour party's image and Boris refuses to do anything productive with his huge majority; refuses to make any genuine concessions regarding Partygate and keeps using deflection tactics in the hope his new-ish supporters will forget about it; and continues down the path of high taxation, high spending without the discernible results you would expect from that strategy.

 

[Liquid]

 

[merseyxshore]

Mick Lynch is an absolute hero.

 

[Daz555]

Abortion is legal in NI but the rules are different.

England, Scotland and Wales - up to 24 weeks with a valid reason and agreed by two medical professionals.
Northern Ireland - up to 12 weeks for any reason and up to 24 weeks for a selection of permitted medical reasons.

The significant issue in NI is gaining access to abortion services - they are still almost non-existent despite promises that change would happen this year.

 

[UKMikey]

Mick Lynch is an absolute hero.

He seems to be focussed on getting the job done for his union members.

‘I don’t want to be an icon’: Mick Lynch on winning the rail strike PR battle

Public support has soared for the plain-speaking RMT leader who is leading the fight to protect his members’ living standards

www.theguardian.com

 

[Liquid]

The significant issue in NI is gaining access to abortion services - they are still almost non-existent despite promises that change would happen this year.

Which is the point.

This, of course, coming from Northern "We don't want to be any different to the rest of the UK" Ireland; except for the specific cases where Northern Ireland insists on being different so it can persecute minorities, gays and women.

 

[merseyxshore]

He seems to be focussed on getting the job done for his union members.

‘I don’t want to be an icon’: Mick Lynch on winning the rail strike PR battle

Public support has soared for the plain-speaking RMT leader who is leading the fight to protect his members’ living standards

www.theguardian.com

Despite him not wanting attention etc I really hope he does get into politics. He has absolutely decimated any journalist or Tory MP (and by necessary extension senior Labour MPs I suppose) in his way thus far, and remained calm and collected throughout. Even on all the usual right wing outlets the comments are almost blanket positive in favour of him. He makes Starmer look like a cardboard cutout.

Now let's have a general strike.

 

[Famine]

He makes Starmer look like a cardboard cutout.

That sounds like an improvement though.