“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

Inevitably

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/14/luciana-berger-given-key-labour-role-after-quitting-over-antisemitism

Reform UK - the party for whom two arms are not enough.

I and my fellow Prospective Parliamentary Candidates in the Reform UK party do not have the ability to take action on illegal immigration at the moment. But when you vote us all in as MPs, watch this space! This government should hang their heads in shame! pic.twitter.com/kvWnGNEq7M

— Reform PPC Central Suffolk & North Ipswich (@michael_hallatt) January 14, 2024

Two arms for crossing and looking serious, one spare for a salute*

*salute to be specified at a later date

"working class seafarers" sounds like a decemberists song

Mick Lynch uses the same term when talking about the salty seadogs who are members of the RMT, but obv Mason is just doing his usual fuckwitted sophistry here.

Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!

— Harry Quilter-Pinner (@harry_qp) January 16, 2024

Evelyn Waugh characters clowning on rtb now

I almost feel a sense of relief when I see sweary kids playing in the middle of the road and telling their parents to fuck off. Some of these RtB snobs think they are middle class now! And the private renter next door feels he is entitled to live in silence. I told him to go rent a croft in the Outer Hebrides if wants silence and never darken my doorstep again with frivolous complaints. I'm glad the cunt is paying double social rent because he's a fucking tool.

I don't know who this Quilty lad is but he knows fuck all about how housing costs are paid thru the benefits system

(clue, it's hardly ever thru Housing Benefit)

he seems to think housing benefit will actually pay double social rent rate, it should cover it all though. It's not the tenants fault successive UK govts have enabled or done nothing to arrest a social housing crisis that was in the making since 1980.

I think without jumping to conclusions this isn't a lad who knows much about people living around the breadline

xxxp fucked up what he did to that girl fleeing her abusive stepfather

lol exactly

There is a 2BR in my LA building that is always let to three international students for around £650/week, so I looked it up on Zoopla and it was bought up (likely RTB) before their records started, so the landlord is probably mortgage-free. Council tenants pay around £180/week for the same flat.

Granted, the flat is in Central London but that’s some markup.

media coverage of the royal family in full extremely normal mode

When you have no means of getting a car, affording a wife/husband/kid and a house.

For people under 50 today's YouGov poll is:

Lab 60%
Con 10%
Green 10%
LD 9%
Reform 5%
SNP 3%

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 18, 2024

LOL, that can't be real?

OK, apparently it is. Among 18-24 year olds, support for the Tories sits at 4%! Crazy times.

Posh people just not breeding enough

they're breeding but their kids are super-weird and hate their parents and themselves (source: saltburn)

OK, apparently it is. Among 18-24 year olds, support for the Tories sits at 4%! Crazy times.

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 bookmarkflaglink

They better be given a house, a job that pays, a car and a pension to look forward.

But guess what? Labour won't give you those things either, so it doesn't matter.

yeah, thanks UK electorate for belatedly falling out with the tory party, but mostly not falling with their policies and economic model.

Hasn't the polling by age group been similar for quite a long while, its just of a question of when it starts to matter? (I thought guaranteed for next election not this one but other factors maybe shifting the more important senior votes too)

as to why it looks like its changing an election early I mean

Never in a million years has support for the Tories been at 10% for the under fifties. I'd surprised if it's ever been that for any age range tbh.

xp- Covid a factor mebbe?

yeah, thanks UK electorate for belatedly falling out with the tory party, but mostly not falling with their policies and economic model.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:40 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yah I wanna give the government a boot for my mortgage going up doesn't mean I care about povs and homelesses, Sir Keir understands that

For those asking the numbers for people over 50 are:

Lab: 35%
Con: 30%
Reform: 18%
LD: 8%
Green: 4%
SNP: 2%

The swing against the Tories is actually bigger for older people. It's just coming from a much higher starting point.

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 18, 2024

This seems quite significant, Labour have a 5 point lead with over 50s, that has to be new

Never in a million years has support for the Tories been at 10% for the under fifties. I'd surprised if it's ever been that for any age range tbh.

The yougov site is horrible to navigate but I got as far back as August 2022 and the Tories had marginally lower support for the under fifties in that poll than this one. Was that pre-Truss?

I apologise, I read the figures wrong. Confusingly they have voting intention and who would you vote for tomorrow as different things, with different numbers

jan 2024
18-24 tories 4%
25-49 tories 10%

aug 2022
18-24 tories 6%
25-49 tories 16%

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/TheTimes_VI_Immigration_Cons_240117_W.pdf

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/TheTimesVI_220901_W.pdf

Just before Truss. They were surely even lower after the debacle of her premiership, lettuce and all!

I scrolled back as far as September 2020 before giving up. The big drop was between September 2020 and August 2022, though with that being a larger timeframe maybe its just been a consistent continual gradual glide down with no particular drop off point. The yougov site is too painful to engage with any further though

Imagine voting for this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEI5HNXXAAAEycw?format=jpg&name=medium

*boke*

tbf their both about the size of Action Man

also swivel-eyed cunts like Action Man

Tonight we counted the votes for the Cazenove ward by-election. Ian Sharer was duly elected to represent the residents of Cazenove with 1,623 votes. Turnout was 31.92% More information about the election and result will be available on our website: https://t.co/7XMaiEIbqG pic.twitter.com/khxJxfFbDr

— Hackney Council (@hackneycouncil) January 19, 2024

That’s a rhetorical question

See what happens when mark s moves out of Hackney?

oh right this is the one where the Labour candidate was a frothing transphobe

the "one"

Ah!

Tory vote up 47.4%!

How much of this is down to the candidate himself rather than the party? He's been a councillor there for 16 of the last 22 years according to google

a rare Lib Dem turning out to be a Tory

(xp) Bit of both. Labour's vote down 13%.

luckily there are no other Labour candidates who are outspoken poisonous bigots so things should be fine going forward

This is what reporters are up against: Man City and their lawyer Simon Cliff, lobbying government, and the general public (and fans) being told fuck-all about anything the comes of that. Chapeau, Russell. https://t.co/ib3lQNApf6

— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) January 21, 2024

(Baroness) Nicky Morgan, "The two state solution has to be one of the only ways out of the current situation."

Er, yeah, thanks for that one.