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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 55m

Pleasure to talk about the pros and cons of abolishing stamp duty on #r4today just now - glad @danneidle.bsky.social was also on to talk about the solutions with a lot more gravitas than I would have managed

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 22h

Hollow laughter

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 1d

There are good reasons to scrap stamp duty but you need to make up the revenue somewhere - eg replace it and council tax with an annual tax based on proportion of home's value

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, the last time we had zero stamp duty and no replacement was during the pandemic, and house prices surged, pricing more people out of home ownership

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

lol abolishing stamp duty is a policy that will prove hugely popular with the wonk set before absolutely blowing up the moment they announce what would replace it - or, alternatively, how they'd fund the lost revenue

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 2d

The press should be doorstepping the people who funded these repeated complaints and lawsuits. Make them explain themselves

Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints

Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

www.bbc.com

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 2d

Outstanding craft, reminds me of the good old days

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 4d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 3d

Kickass Moon right now lads

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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 6d

As part of Renters’ Rights Awareness Week, we’re giving away copies of acclaimed books with a housing connection! 📚🏡

Support our work and try your luck by entering our prize draw! 👇

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rentersrig...

Help us fight for a better deal for renters

When you're a renter, knowledge is power. We're giving away the latest books about housing to promote and fund our renters rights webinars

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing opportunity to win one of the year's hottest books on housing (or renter ally Sally Rooney's latest in paperback) AND help GR raise awareness of renters' rights at the same time

Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 6d

As part of Renters’ Rights Awareness Week, we’re giving away copies of acclaimed books with a housing connection! 📚🏡

Support our work and try your luck by entering our prize draw! 👇

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rentersrig...

Help us fight for a better deal for renters

When you're a renter, knowledge is power. We're giving away the latest books about housing to promote and fund our renters rights webinars

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 6d

Good letter in the FT from the other day (though I would argue that someone who inherits a property with an assured shorthold tenant in it and, rightly, doesn't evict them just because they can, also counts as an accidental landlord)

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 7d

good advert for Weetabix that

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 8d

As @stephenkb.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, Britain is less a "papers please society" and more "the British state expects you to randomly have middle class friends in regulated professions by default" society

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 8d

"oh, we can't use the random family friend who has a passport anymore? we're back to the list of listed professions only? but you also can't *only* know them professionally?"

yeah well sorry my wife doesn't hang out with an OBE and a goddamn funeral director at the weekends you shower of clowns

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 8d

Googling a clue is alright, right?

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Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 8d

Always worth reading DF and he may have a point here but trotting out this tired trope just wound me up www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

PM’s Blue Labour act won’t win the red wall

Politics of Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney are mismatched — that’s why efforts to win back working-class voters are so confused

www.thetimes.com

Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 8d

Unhelpful to define working class to include a lot of retired home owners, and not a lot of folk who work for a living and have to rent.

Eg Danny Finkelstein today was like "Labour has a big electoral coalition if it wants one, but it's not my definition of working class so that's bad"

Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 8d

Interestingly it *is* very much working people, if you define them as "people of working age who draw their income from employment". Even Corbyn in 2019 won the plurality of people of working age. In 2024 more people of working age with an income over £100k voted Labour than Tory.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 8d

"Has anyone seen Jim, I'm waiting for his copy"

"Bad news, there's just been a downpour and we're right by a borderline UNESCO heritage zone"

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 9d

Must be a way of reinstating allowance while bumping up the rate to cancel it out - and still bring in money because more people will work more hours/go for promotions (and maybe help with the NHS too, because a lot of these people are doctors)

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think that we should hand people at the £100k threshold a tax cut because I like upsetting socially conscious librarians who give £5 a month to Labour, but because I think we're losing out on tax revenue and economic activity because people avoid taking on work to take them over it!

Labour’s unpopularity problem

It incorrectly equates internal party discomfort with policies that anyone else likes and might aid the economy

www.ft.com

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Renters' Reform Coalition @rentersreformco.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social for meeting with us today.

Along with @generationrent.bsky.social, we discussed the end of Section 21 evictions and the pathway to securing decent standards for rented homes. 🏡

A photo of Ben Twomey from Generation Rent, left, Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook MP, centre, and Niamh Evans from Renters' Reform Coalition, right. All are dressed in suits and smiling at the camera.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 9d

Hope the updated Decent Homes Standard fixes this. We didn't respond to the social housing stuff in the consultation - but made an exception for this travesty

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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 9d

"Some of the places aren't fit for dogs".

Anyone can be affected by the renting crisis, but migrant communities struggle against the worst conditions in the UK. We met with newcomers to Lewisham to find out more about their experiences.

Read more 👇

www.generationrent.org/2025/09/30/s...

Stories from the Margins: How Lewisham’s migrant people are fighting for a place to call home - Generation Rent

Generation Rent met with migrant people seeking to make a home in Lewisham. We found exploitation and a system working against them.

www.generationrent.org

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 10d

Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...

English councils’ temporary accommodation bill rises to £2.8bn

Councils in England spent a record £2.8bn on temporary accommodation last year, with the annual bill rising by 25% as the homelessness crisis deepens.

www.insidehousing.co.uk

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 10d

At a climate event at #Lab25 - @generationrent.bsky.social CEO @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social asks what can be done to encourage renters to apply for grants they're eligible for, without seeing energy savings cancelled out by a rent rise or even being evicted to sell the property. Luke Murphy MP responds

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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 11d

Our Deputy CEO @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social set out the case for limits on rent hikes at @rentersreformco.bsky.social's Labour Conference event.

They would:

➡️ Reduce homelessness
➡️ Boost local economies
➡️ Allow renters to save
➡️ Incentivise renters to apply for energy efficiency improvements

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 11d

Will "raising a couple of kids" count?

CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 11d

“Ms Mahmood said she wants to tighten rules around claiming Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in the UK.

Under her plan, migrants must show they are integrated and ‘contribute’ to the UK through things like volunteering for charities or local projects”

www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...

Home Secretary to ‘reset’ laws so migrants must prove they ‘contribute’ to UK

SHABANA Mahmood today vows to “reset” laws so migrants must prove their social worth before being allowed to settle in Britain. In her first big interview since being made Home Secretary, she pledg…

www.thesun.co.uk

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