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My absolutely favourite thing is young people whose dream it is to buy what was once an ordinary working class terrace but is now £1.3 mil probably. I say this as that person.
Any other young people feel they have no secure future in the UK? Unless your sole & unattainable aspiration is to become a City trader or a landlord, there is nothing here for us. The pie can keep growing but no young person not born into wealth has any way of owning a piece.
Policies that force teachers to go back to work, crowd out beaches, push shift workers into the central line, tell shielding people everything is fine = 🤫
A protest for a black man murdered = 😤
Something that won’t get enough attention in a winter lockdown: women will not have the freedom to follow encouragement of outdoor activities if they can only do it after a workday. It is now dark and unsafe. A rather rancid gender gap will be very obvious - to women, anyway.
Trying to find food or drink after 12am in London is *absurd* by the way. Going theatre then trying to do anything sociable in one of the world’s busiest cities should not be this difficult. So many questions to be asked.
The discussion about whether young people should forego really basic fun things like access to TV shows they like and a cheap holiday a year just to gain secure shelter really is such an indictment on the basic quality of life we expect in 2022.
A bit obsessed with this because young people don’t actually have front rooms - the landlord chucked a divan in there and rented it out for £900 a month
Genuinely astounded at how many punishments these people have in their heads for a generation that has only ever known crises and austerity, had homeownership taken from them, have little access to functional public services, and as he himself points out are heavily indebted.
"You could say to young people: 'Right we'll knock a bit off your student loan debt if you come and take part.'"
Sir David Lidington expresses the need for both 'a stick' and 'a carrot' to draw young people into conscription, and makes some suggestions himself.
Utterly heartbroken thinking about the women of Afghanistan and reports of female students saying goodbye to their teachers for the last time. I cannot even comprehend hard won freedoms vanishing overnight. The UK has a duty to provide refugee and student visa support.
The sexism and disdain for young people (after two years of compliance for the elderly population!) in the replies is incredibly tedious and boring. Hope they had a great night doing something that is also definitely legal.
if anyone is arguing that the right response is for a return to microwave-selling, scratch at the surface centrism they haven’t actually knocked on a single door in red wall seats. The collapse of our support there stretches back decades, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.
Being a woman is just a continuous lack of surprise and complete numbness to the feeling that news notifications like the Noel Clarke story just won’t ever stop.
As an XL bully owner, it’s horrible to see these attacks going on because I know what lovely peaceful dogs I own! It’s just mad to see all these MPs rallying together to get them banned… yet don’t give paedos the same energy?!
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Swinson’s stubbornness is constitutionally absurd, and her fantasising about shoving a backbencher into the role is going to land us with no deal, making her entire party’s modern contribution to British politics a decade of austerity and economic catastrophe. Congrats.
“When a government collapses, the leader of the main opposition party is called upon to form a government.”
Jeremy Corbyn says he is “disappointed” with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson for refusing to back him as an emergency prime minister to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
Men sharing stats that they’re more likely to get attacked is not just grim, but proves their blissful ignorance. Stats that will never reflect the times we are followed home, called a bitch, catcalled, groped, intimidated - all the near-misses that make our lives terrifying.
It’s actually incredible how the national guidelines that have kept us all locked down for 8 weeks have in a single day been torn down, now even by our Health Secretary, to protect one man.
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
The bf told the little kid in the flat that if he was good he could say hi to our cats. Lad came knocking today saying he got a gold star at school and could he pet the cat 🥺
I’ll have over 50k of debt because I received a full maintenance loan and needed fee loans, whilst my rich Durham pals needed no such loans and come out debt-free. I earn a good amount now. I was still given more debt because my parents were poor.
Your regular reminder that, whatever its merits as a policy, abolishing tuition fees is of no help to the half of young people who don't attend university, is of no help to low earning graduates, and is a big giveaway to the highest earnings graduates.
You can’t be pro-levelling up and aggressively anti-WFH. You want young professionals to have opportunities in their home town? You can’t be an obsessive Luddite.
I couldn’t think of a more terrifying person to owe a substantial debt to than my landlord. Landlords by and large evidently do not act with compassion nor are legally obliged to. They possess manifold the power of their tenant and are granted every possible benefit of the doubt.
71% of Britons would be supportive if a family member said they were transgender or non-binary
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🇮🇹 78%
🇸🇪 73%
🇬🇧 71%
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It's obviously common knowledge but I just helped with a Universal Credit application and words don't do justice to how long, complex, and incredibly difficult it is - and I'm computer literate.
@OwenJones84
I was, up to this point, of the assumption I was more than walking genitalia. Glad to see the real feminists have corrected me and I am indeed the sum of my ability to have babies.
It’s worth pointing out that a generation of us were told student finance was not bad debt and would not affect credit decisions. It does - by taking a LOT from your take home and spending potential, not only does it harm saving, but lenders DO view you with real scepticism.
We did an affordability check as a professional couple and didn’t pass for a *FTB scheme new build flat in Debden* due to the sheer lack of FTB lenders on the market. The broker asked “if there’s anything you can do about your student loan repayments”. Smacked right in the teeth.
There is something very British about expecting so little. The core of the argument against the strikers’ conditions, beyond inconvenience, is ‘I’m getting paid below the standard I need to live, so they should too’. It’s I’m alright Jack, except, Jack, babe, you’re not alright.
WATCH: Conservative MP Mark Field shoves a protestor against a pillar then grabs her by her neck and shoves her out of the Mansion House dinner after climate change protestors interrupted the banquet.
Millionaire residents of Soho quietly destroying an important part of a city economy that serves predominantly young people and provided jobs to young people now decimated post-COVID and there are some spicy takes on this from people thinking they’re actually progressive.
Trying to find food or drink after 12am in London is *absurd* by the way. Going theatre then trying to do anything sociable in one of the world’s busiest cities should not be this difficult. So many questions to be asked.
Voting intention among 18-24 year olds
Lab - 38%
Lib Dem - 18%
Con - 16%
Green - 15%
Brexit Party - 5%
Voting intention among 70+ year olds
Con - 58%
Brexit Party - 14%
Lib Dem - 14%
Lab - 9%
Green - 2%
(Fieldwork 17-28 Oct)
Something pretty amazing seeing the St George’s flag adorned with anti-racist messages on the Rashford mural. Somewhere, the EDL are crying, and that’s beautiful.
if the goal was to salt bae the leader into a yassification so intense it’s strangely boosted his likability, it’s succeeded - and I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence
10/10/2023: A protester invades the stage and pours glitter over Keir Starmer at the start of the Leader's Speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
Regardless of whether you agree with triple lock or not, waking up to the government ripping up leasehold reform and then committing to protecting pensions at all costs is so laughably on the nose that, as a young voter, if you don’t laugh you’d have a breakdown instead.
Remember not to trust conservatives pointing at protests and 'worrying' about a second wave when they were cheering for working class people to stop being work-shy and get themselves back on the tube. This isn't about caring for your health.
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@SadiqKhan
you said that "London is well prepared for a nuclear attack."
This is what would happen if one of Russia's 5,000 nuclear bombs lands on London.
"London, Slough, Watford, & Essex a would be destroyed. Estimated fatalities are 2,792,630 & injuries is 2,756,780."
“How can you be so selfish?”
Desperate pleas from a woman on the A12 this morning, as she tries to make it to see her 81-year-old mother in Canterbury, who has been rushed to hospital in an ambulance.
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@rachaelvenables
3% conviction rate for rapists. Accused men going through the judicial system really do not need your cheerleading. Women, meanwhile, need to apparently move in packs of 20 to get anywhere near said conviction.
of all the hot takes, the idea that Corbyn is too frail is probably the most hilarious. that man doesn’t drink, smoke and eats food from an allotment. I’m 24 and he will 100% outlive me.
This is actually a really important and under-explored point about the cost of living crisis. Being told to cut back (or entirely cut out) not just on necessities but on very basic socialising is a really horrible and unhealthy vision for a modern society.
It really hurts as an FSM kid, knowing how hard your parent/s worked, repeatedly seeing the ‘parents are responsible for feeding their kids’ trope. The endemic ignorance of the causes of poverty & in-work poverty amongst those with colossal power makes me feel deeply hopeless.
20,000 students should have been able to vote in Labour Students’ most recent election. Just 500 people got to. We had to climb over at least 5 technocratic hurdles to get a vote. It is not controversial or radical to say that is absurd & it is right our student wing is reformed.
it kinda sucks that, today, being a woman in pro-democratic / left politics feels slightly sacrificial. basically, screw abusive men, screw assange, and screw the fact he's being prosecuted for exposing the US and Sweden hasn't even been *kept in the loop*. take women seriously.
Exhausted by our country’s obsession with Osbornomic framing. Universal childcare comes with a price tag and feeds back into the economy so eventually that price tag is paid by growth. No universal childcare comes with an even bigger price tag and just adds to individual debt.
Labour's unfunded spending pledges add up to more than £20bn a year,
@theipaper
analysis suggests - equivalent of a 3p rise in income tax.
And IFS's Paul Johnson casts doubt on the party's ability to meet capital spending promises without pushing up debt.
it's been said before, but it's astonishing the difference in skill between the Brexit Party -the ingenuity is in its simplicity - and Change UK, who still can't choose between 50 different names for themselves, none of which clarify what they are. Managerialist centrism is dead.
The absolutely most soul-destroying part of Don’t Tell the Bride is at the end after Dave the lad, a completely incompetent human disaster, has organised a gazebo on a pig farm and everyone is like “I can’t believe he’s done such a good job!”
Just a reminder those workplace guidelines a) were denounced by trade unions, and b) are non-binding. There is nothing to stop bad employers from putting workers at risk. This broadcast shirks leadership to an unregulated market.
This went under the radar but I can’t stop thinking about how young workers in April are all about to face a huge, disproportionate and wealth-transferring cost crisis after two years of making huge sacrifices. Just odious.
NEWS: Govt to FREEZE student loan repayment threshold (plan 2 & 3) at £27,295/yr income - effectively INCREASING what people pay each year, and what most repay in total.
This April it should've risen by average earnings of 4.6% to around £28,550 for the tax year... cont