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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 1d

If we had been serious about making Brexit work, we would have hired the Germans to manage it for us...

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 1d

My view on Brexit, at the time and now, was that no matter what the promises of sunlit uplands, our government (of any flavour) would never be able to make it work because none of them have ever been able to manage a piss-up in a brewery.

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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 1d

#RejoinEU
#FBPE

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 1d

There is a malign influence that affects politicians, especially those in power, that stops them doing the right thing. I believe this is the best evidence we have for the existence of Satan...

Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 1d

We all know that Brexit has been an utter disaster. Obviously the tories and reform can't admit that, because it was their idea, but why can't Labour admit it and reverse it? Something to do with power and wanting more, perhaps...?

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 1d

I believe that watching the excellent 70s TV series, The World at War, should be compulsory. The first episode is so today, and it reinforces that idea that if you don't learn from history, you'll repeat it...

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 2d

Every poll, survey and piece of research say the same thing.
Brexit has been a disaster.
To continue with it increasingly damages us. No government should be willingly harming the british people.

www.bestforbritain.org/tory_voters_...

Tory voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy

Ahead of the Conservative Party’s 2025 conference in Manchester, exclusive new polling by YouGov for Best for Britain reveals that people who say they intend to vote Conservative at the next general e...

www.bestforbritain.org

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 2d

Water prices are going up, along with energy, fuel, food, etc. The UK government's response? Allow pubs to stay open longer, so that people with no money can buy drink at inflated prices (£7+ a pint please). Beggars belief...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 2d

Not only is the McSweeney government anti-migrant.

It's not even really working for growth, where that interferes with appeasing and trying (and failing!) to attract the xeno voter.

Idiots.

Glasman McSweeney is pointing Labour in the wrong direction, and must GO.

https://tinyurl.com/52whazc

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

My view is that the government should be encouraging (in every way, shape and form) local authorities to build for-rent-only housing, with rents set at a level people can comfortably afford. You don't need to own a house for it to be a home.

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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 3d

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/suspend-...

Suspend Boris Johnson's taxpayer allowance

I’ve just signed the petition to suspend Boris Johnson’s £115k ex-PM allowance until they’ve finished investigating his dodgy deals. Leaks show he was using his old office for private business, meetin...

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

"We don’t expect official figures on net additional dwellings—the government’s metric for this target—until the autumn. However estimates published so far suggest the government needs to pick up the pace of building to hit its target in the current parliament."

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

Let's hope this happens! There's too much land in private hands.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

Would I oppose help for first time buyers? Yes, because I am fundamentally opposed to home ownership. That's me, I just don't agree with it.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously there are people that can afford these prices, but they tend to be incomers rather than locals. £1200pcm is not a realistic, affordable monthly rent for many locals. Living costs are totally mad in this country, e.g. our water rates are £700 a year, up from £500 last year.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

"This isn’t magic — the shortage stems from decades of underbuilding and right-to-buy; rebuilding social stock needs money and time." Absolutely. This is an issue that has been decades in the making and needs real drive and focus to rectify.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

"Ministers are setting up review work to align rents/prices with local wages and clamp down on exploitative “affordable” definitions." Great!
"Would you trust a proper review to make “affordable” real for local people?" Yes, if that review is honest and open.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

Again, how's this £39bn project going? Please, I'm happy to be proved wrong, but I all I read about this project is that it is stalled due to a lack of skilled labour, planning issues and projected high costs.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

It shouldn't just be about "key workers", it should be for all. Making something available just to key workers is just another way of hiding the fact that they have no solution to tackle the overall housing crisis.

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 3d

"Why defend a system that lets market prices define “affordable”?" - I don't and wouldn't. Prices should reflect what people can actually pay. There was a time when even those on low incomes could afford to at least rent a home of their own. Market forces are continuing to price out a generation.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4d

Thanks to Dave de Santis

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 4d

Will be happy to see 1.5m "affordable" homes, how are they getting along with that? And define affordable - in our area (rural East Anglia) an "affordable" rent is £1200pm and an "affordable" house purchase (2 bed semi) is classed as being £470,000 - almost half a million. Great...

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 4d

Am I against home ownership? Yes, as there are no real checks & balances re affordability and sustainability. Ownership was Thatcher's way of safeguarding votes. Also against land ownership - they're not making land so much these days, so it's a finite resource, why should anyone own it?

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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 4d

I still think a better idea is to keep the Union but rotate the governance of it around the other nations. So let's start by moving the UK capital and parliament to Edinburgh and Cardiff for a period. Not even the English will want a return to Westminster once they see sensible politics in action 😁