I really think Starmer is turning things around - my opinion of him has risen considerably in the last couple of days. He is finally starting to sound like a prime minister in waiting.
He needs to start shifting on our relationship with the EU too. By the time of the election he needs to feel comfortable having a customs union deal in the Lab manifesto. This will be hard and require explaining a reasonably complex situation to people while complete fûckwits like amithemeatshield, Farage and Rex shout lies in their ears about treachery and forced baguetting.
He absolutely does not need to do that Royalty. He already has about 80% of the remain vote. He just needs to ensure the manifesto doesn’t say anything that will stop him rejoining the customs union.
House building is still profitable and can be profitable even at rather lower prices if you encourage developers to stop building £800k executive boxes. It would just be a bit less profitable. The issue is providing the cashflow for developers when lenders don't want to lend.
It's all great in theory but there are also plenty of shire dwelling nimby Labour voters whose MP's will no doubt feel compelled to vote against this.
He should just loosen planning restrictions in constituencies with a Tory MP only. Announce it pre election too so people know what they are voting for.
he's realised that there is no downside for labour in ramming housing through where tories live
ironically if the tories had realised the same they could have built housing more useful than the stuff labour will focus on - primarily in cities
instead they capitulated to mps holding london marginals and allowed theresa villiers and iain duncan-smith to dictate their entire suicidal housing policy
Sailo the issue on renewables is the grid. It can't take much feed in from householders which is also why the inverters are capped at such a low wattage
That's fine though as I don't want to feed anything into the grid. I just want to be allowed to install my own provision without a seven month battle about whether the operation of solar panels will create noise disturbance for the newts in the ancient woodland.
Heh, one of the reasons that Sadiq has got nowhere near his election pledges for new homes in London is the opposition a lot of the time from nimby Labour Councils in London - "it'll spoil the character of the area etc". It is not just the tozzas.
I might be wrong, Guy, because there are a lot of intelligent people with no sense of foresight, such as yourself. The lefties are getting giddy over a leader that lists problems but is unable to articulate how these problems could be resolved in any practical way. And his major announcement is house building. If he wants to solve housing he should look first at demand (illegal immigration), then cost (inflation) rather than supply
he should look first at demand (illegal immigration)
Is there a source proving that illegal immigration is a significant factor in the housing market, other than 'the diseased mind of piechucker from the internet'?
Not sure how they affect the housing market when they're kept in concentration camps but let's just say we gave them all a dwelling along with their sky tv and mobile phones ans starbuckses... we could house them all with a single year's housebuilding? And we shouldn't build more houses because of this?
rather than admit that if immigration is indeed the cause of the problems with the housing market, the Tories must take responsibility as the party of government, the play is to shift blame onto “illegals” and “asylum seekers”
That video of Lee Anderson on the beach of Littlehampton covered in tents and migrants was an absolute disgrace. If only they were furnished with an apartment that removes supply from the working class, maybe I could have my boots polished and truss adjusted rather easier
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bUt cOrByN?!!???
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I really think Starmer is turning things around - my opinion of him has risen considerably in the last couple of days. He is finally starting to sound like a prime minister in waiting.
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He needs to start shifting on our relationship with the EU too. By the time of the election he needs to feel comfortable having a customs union deal in the Lab manifesto. This will be hard and require explaining a reasonably complex situation to people while complete fûckwits like amithemeatshield, Farage and Rex shout lies in their ears about treachery and forced baguetting.
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He’s a winner not a Work Experience
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He absolutely does not need to do that Royalty. He already has about 80% of the remain vote. He just needs to ensure the manifesto doesn’t say anything that will stop him rejoining the customs union.
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the tozzas have demonstr7ed that manifestos r really just 2 b used as lies 2 encourage voters and then discarded at will
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If he’s going to loosen planning restrictions on the green belt, that would be a good thing. He should be able to but I’ll believe it when I see it
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Relaxing planning permission wont suddenly make hiuse building profitable again.
He'll still have to confront falling house prices and monstrously expensive mortgages.
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House building is still profitable and can be profitable even at rather lower prices if you encourage developers to stop building £800k executive boxes. It would just be a bit less profitable. The issue is providing the cashflow for developers when lenders don't want to lend.
It's all great in theory but there are also plenty of shire dwelling nimby Labour voters whose MP's will no doubt feel compelled to vote against this.
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He should just loosen planning restrictions in constituencies with a Tory MP only. Announce it pre election too so people know what they are voting for.
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That also suits me.
While he's at it he also really needs to sort the planning rules on renewable energy for householders.
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I wish there were more detail. Eg could I build a block of 20 luxury flats on my plot (I live in a conservation area)?
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he's realised that there is no downside for labour in ramming housing through where tories live
ironically if the tories had realised the same they could have built housing more useful than the stuff labour will focus on - primarily in cities
instead they capitulated to mps holding london marginals and allowed theresa villiers and iain duncan-smith to dictate their entire suicidal housing policy
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pancakes11 Oct 23 14:04
he's realised that there is no downside for labour in ramming housing through where tories live
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heh!
labour's version of gerrymandering "let's let thousands of people buy their first home in a tory safe seat and flip it for the next 40 years!"
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Kier promises to build desolate red brick towns.... He needs to sort illegal immigration or it is just tax revenue being burned
Secondly he needs to sort UK energy
He will do neither and it is why he will not make it to office
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labour's version of gerrymandering "let's let thousands of people buy their first home in a tory safe seat and flip it for the next 40 years!"
pretty much. if labour can deliver four bedrooms and a dog to millennials they will be in power for the next 30 years.
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Sailo the issue on renewables is the grid. It can't take much feed in from householders which is also why the inverters are capped at such a low wattage
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Is someone keeping a note of these?
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That's fine though as I don't want to feed anything into the grid. I just want to be allowed to install my own provision without a seven month battle about whether the operation of solar panels will create noise disturbance for the newts in the ancient woodland.
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"He will do neither and it is why he will not make it to office"
I have saved this to enjoy next year
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Heh, one of the reasons that Sadiq has got nowhere near his election pledges for new homes in London is the opposition a lot of the time from nimby Labour Councils in London - "it'll spoil the character of the area etc". It is not just the tozzas.
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yes, hence why labour are pledging to build new towns in tozza constituencies.
and the tozzas are morons for not ramming through hundreds of thousands of new homes in cities, where the only cost would be annoying labour councils
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In his GB News interview he used the expression “in terms”. I love that legal speak.
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Guy is just the sort of voter to whom Sir Beer appeals. Maybe everyone will get a night at The Savoy?
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Erm they sing the red flag at conference? Didnt the vicar wisely abolish this?
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I might be wrong, Guy, because there are a lot of intelligent people with no sense of foresight, such as yourself. The lefties are getting giddy over a leader that lists problems but is unable to articulate how these problems could be resolved in any practical way. And his major announcement is house building. If he wants to solve housing he should look first at demand (illegal immigration), then cost (inflation) rather than supply
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Anyone who can listen to the Red Flag without feeling at least of admiration for the nobility of the Left has no heart or no brain.
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I say that irrespective of one's politics.
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* at least a twinge
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Yes but it’s the fact it smacks of unelectability.
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Same with Jerusalem, that other staple of the Labour conference.
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George Galloway could turn up on the podium in a Chairman Mao suit singing Les Marsailles and they'd still be elected.
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Kinnock could recreate his Sheffield Rally moment and it wouldn't move the needle.
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Jerusalem. Christ.
Blake and Parry spinning in their graves. Severally.
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illegal immigration is a drop in the ocean in comparison to legal immigration, which the tories have been more than happy with
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Is there a source proving that illegal immigration is a significant factor in the housing market, other than 'the diseased mind of piechucker from the internet'?
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The number of asylum seekers awaiting decision are mas o menos equal to the number of new dwellings completed in 2022
a drop in the ocean
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Not sure how they affect the housing market when they're kept in concentration camps but let's just say we gave them all a dwelling along with their sky tv and mobile phones ans starbuckses... we could house them all with a single year's housebuilding? And we shouldn't build more houses because of this?
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Another well informed lefty
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are asylum seekers awaiting decision big participants in the housing market, you utter clown?
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if they were, would that be an answer to my comment at 20:46? you utter clown?
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Read the AASC issued by the Home Office. The answer to your idiotic question is within
Chimp and his thought leadership....
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M8 they're all stuck in shipping containers.
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PS asylum seekers awaiting decision are not “illegal immigrants” are they
you really are a total idiot
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why don’t you tell me
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could you ponder this in your hour of #thoughtleadership
how do you think they got here? With a visa or without?
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it’s instructive though isn’t it
rather than admit that if immigration is indeed the cause of the problems with the housing market, the Tories must take responsibility as the party of government, the play is to shift blame onto “illegals” and “asylum seekers”
only a true dolt could fall for this stuff
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there is a legal right to seek asylum
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I'm not a tory I'm just aiding your failing #thoughtleadership
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lol of course you’re not you fooking melon
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Memoirs of Chimp
the key to #thoughtleadership is an open mind and thirst for knowledge
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you’ve decided to retreat into babbling nonsense then. good move
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That thirst for knowledge, did you have it at St Martins College?
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Memoirs of Chimp
That video of Lee Anderson on the beach of Littlehampton covered in tents and migrants was an absolute disgrace. If only they were furnished with an apartment that removes supply from the working class, maybe I could have my boots polished and truss adjusted rather easier
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I see the right wing have nothing left to offer the debate but goading and petulant whataboutery. Sad to see.
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MAKE MADGE MEGA MEGA MAKE MADGE META MASSIVE
What Donny said on european matters. Everyone knows that with a twenty year madge guaranteed, we will rejoin under LAB. No need to say it.
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IF YOU WANT A N****R FOR A NEIGHBOUR VOTE LABOUR!!
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I got that one and it wasn't racist.
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I don't get it.
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Who liked brexits post? Bet it wasnt on a lol i get the joke basis either.
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Very guilty heh at crypto's savoy jab at Guy.
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