Shouldn’t that be “Labour’s Anas Sarmer”? on that bus. Remember what happened to “Jo Swinson’s Liberal Democrats” when she put her name before party? Here’s hoping.

Additionally, just out of interest. Under the Tory govt in 2015 - with around 1 in 5 MPs being landlords - minimum space rules were “updated”… by slashing them. Older Parker-Morris standards gave families far more room. The new NDSS made tiny flats the norm, not the exception.

A 1-bed “should” be 39–50m², that’s tiny for long-term living. Loads of flats come in below those already-minimal standards. Folk feel lucky to own a home, but they’re just not designed for a healthy, liveable life. The problem is the standard itself & builder’s obsession with hi-density profit.

Straight out of the Trump playbook - turning politics into a zero-sum culture war where the goal isn’t to improve lives, but to scapegoat the people you’ve decided are the root of the problem as the enemy.

That’s the problem - they believe they are “God‘s chosen people” and therefore they can do no wrong.

The two-child cap was just the excuse. What really blew the fuse was they refused to bow to Starmer, his ego (and his sponsor’s) absolutely cannot stand open defiance.

‘Wankers’ is good enough.

"If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison - myself included."

- Steve Bannon at the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) on 5 Nov 2025

Rachel Reeves’ career tells its own story: 5 yrs in junior-mid economist roles at the BoE (unpromoted), then a sideways step into a less senior job at HBOS (why?). If she’d genuinely excelled, she would’ve risen - not stalled. The pattern looks less like expertise and more like over-sold experience.