What if, and hear me out here, we invented some sort of token that I could use to exchange for my carrots and then any other food I wanted, so I wasn’t limited to swapping just with people who want carrots
This ordinary suburban London 3 bed house in Zone 4 metroland was built in the 1930s for ordinary middle class families. Today it costs almost a million pounds and you’d need to be in the top 0.5% of earners to be able to buy it on a mortgage
We should legalise building these in the UK. I’d much sooner have rented this than a single room in a HMO split between five people and if I were renting this instead, the HMO could have been used as a family home as it was built for
Ralf Schumacher criticises 'childish' Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel's protests
"...it's actually a ridiculous thing that such experienced people who have seen so many accidents make fun of it in that way."
#F1
BREAKING: Chaos has erupted at London Euston station after all trains have been cancelled due to a fault on the line
Our thoughts go out to anyone trying to get home for Christmas
This is like the RAF bombing the M4 because Ainsley Harriot is marching on London with an army of mercenaries battle-hardened in Northern Ireland. Utterly surreal stuff
I get that it’s good to have parliamentarians with life experience but seeing our legislature debating stripping basic rights from people who’ve been adults for *seven years* really shows why we need more MPs in their 20s and 30s
@kimleadbeater
's Graduate Driving License bill will have its second reading on May 17th.
I fully support this bill and
@owe65332
with her petition to push for Graduate Driving Licenses.
You can find the petition below:
“Nine is too young to know your sexuality” say all the Facebook mums who upload photos of their 4 year old daughters playing with a boy and are like “awwwwww looks like our Sally has er first boyfriend xxxx” 🤨
The pub garden angle of this policy is getting the most attention but imo the biggest consequence would be making shisha lounges functionally illegal. For a lot of South Asian young adults who don’t drink, they fill the same niche as pubs. Forcing them to close is bad
I’m not a smoker but this leaked government plans of places to ban smoking is ludicrous.
We need to do everything to save our pubs and restaurants and this certainly won’t help.
My boyfriend’s parents (Hong Kong Chinese Mum and Macau Chinese Dad) used to run one of the best Italian restaurants in Galway. The locals loved it, and loved them. Stop policing who can cook what food!
Early data from Israel showing the vaccine reduces infections (not just symptoms) by a significant amount. Means those who at vaccinated won’t just be protected themselves but will also stop the spread. Fantastic news!
£100k is a ridiculously high individual salary, even for a high flying young professional. And this is besides the point: you wouldn’t have needed to be high earning to buy this house when it was built, a teacher could have afforded it
People in the replies pointing out Starmer’s family home is now worth £500k are missing the point: pebble-dash semis built for working class families *shouldn’t* be so expensive and it’s only very recently that they have become so
Growing up, our pebble-dash semi was everything to my family – it gave us stability and I believe every family deserves the same.
That’s why Labour will get Britain building again, so working people’s aspiration to own their home can be a reality.
Britain: you’re an adult at 18
Also Britain: no full minimum wage until you’re 21, no tax credits or passengers in your car until you’re 25 and no cigs ever, sorry kid I don’t make the rules
Is there any other country in Western Europe with a greater demographic “what if” than Ireland? Without the Great Famine and resultant emigration its population could be ~30 million today which would radically alter European politics
The vast majority of Ireland is smaller than it was in 1841. The total population in 1841 was 8.2 million, now it's 7.2 million, and much more concentrated.
I get London, the M4 corridor and eastern Scotland (more likely oil and whisky than Edinburgh as OP thinks) but what does that bit of Lancashire/Cheshire have that makes its productivity so high?
The Malvinas question is an special colonial situation that must come to an end.
The Res. takes note of the existence of a sovereignty dispute between Argentina and UK.
It invites both governments to engage in negotiations in order to find a peaceful solution to the dispute.
Correcting myself before I get community noted: this house is in South East London, I was unaware ‘metroland’ refers exclusively to areas in North London. But it was built as part of the 1930s housing boom, rest of the tweet still stands
Considerable number of reply guys explaining it’s not about the ramps but the staff - which is a fair point but the account isn’t called “employee burrito”, it’s about the tech
500 square foot one bed flats in this building go for £160,000. The US housing market has its faults but where it works well, it delivers outcomes we could only dream of at present in the UK
1000 people live in this building in Chicago. it has a theater, gym, swimming pool, ice rink, bowling alley, stores, restaurants, and a marina. The 15 minute gulag in a single building
MMR vaccine uptake among 5-year-olds in England is currently at just 85.5%, well below the 95% target that is recommended to stop an outbreak of measles.
85.5% coverage is the lowest rate in a decade.
Suggests private school fees are extremely inelastic (demand for the good doesn’t change much in response to prices) which isn’t surprising as they’ve risen far above inflation over the past decade
🚨 NEW: Eton College says it will pass the entire 20% VAT on fees to parents when Labour introduces it in January
Parents will now have to pay an annual payment of £63,000, up from £53,000
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Boomers are such a huge cohort they can pretty much always get what they want through sheer numbers in democracies. In the 80s when they were working age they voted for low taxes, now they’re retiring they’ve become rent seekers, blocking everything to protect their own assets
I don’t even have the words.
‘Furious mob of pensioners besiege town hall council meeting in protest against 60-bed care home and new church they fear will bring noise and pollution to their quiet village’
Counterpoint: a modest family home costing almost £1 million is a very recent (and unwelcome) phenomenon and says more about our current housing crisis than it does about the wealth of its occupants 50 years ago
This myth that
@Keir_Starmer
had a meagre upbringing needs to dispelled once and for all...
He was brought up in a spacious, semi-detached home in rural Surrey.
A neighbouring property on the same row of houses (12 doors away) is currently on the market for £950,000.
It’s incredible how quickly expectations have fallen in regards to housing that a three bed newbuild is now considered to be “executive” rather than just, the norm
@Matt_Severn
@8pauly
There is no evidence of need for 3 and 4 bed exec houses with starting prices heading towards £300k, no. The need locally is for smaller properties and affordable housing. Also, 3000 non affordable houses already have planning permission.
This is creepily sickening. From the literal use of the word “undesirable” to the little Gandalf figure they’re using to make light of this blatant discrimination. Let nobody tell you racism isn’t alive and well in 21st century Britain
@cahalmilmo
@theipaper
@EHRC
Here is the blacklist of Irish surnames produced by Pontins and uploaded to its intranet
It was headed "UNDESIRABLE GUESTS"
I don't get this American take that a dog breed ban is something local governments should handle. Imagine if Ealing council outlawed the Bullies but Hounslow didn't, how could you enforce it besides having dog checkpoints all across West London?
This isn’t a rallying cry to cut inheritance tax, it’s a rallying cry to fix the housing market. Ordinary terrace houses built for working class families shouldn’t cost a million pounds
Here's why you will very likely be paying the death tax (IHT).
The high tax junkies claim that only the really rich will pay IHT, but that's rubbish due to inflation & the increase in house prices.
Own this £1.25m palace in Streatham & you pay the death tax.
Picture thread:
STOP EVERYTHING! Children can't have clean air and healthy lungs because an imaginary Linda living in Epsom would like to drive to her mother's, in Hammersmith and pick up her friend from Charing Cross to go to...a concert in East London. 🙄
Sound of straws being grasped ensues.
Utterly moronic article. House prices were much lower in the 70s, so mortgages were lower too, meaning higher rates results in lower payments. A 5% interest rate now is equivalent to 13% in 1980
Also the idea that somebody in their 30s is a “student politician” is precisely the sort of infantilising rubbish that’s giving us legislation like this
The irony of France, who’ve clung on to far-flung colonial possessions so successfully their longest land border is technically with Brazil, supporting Argentine sovereignty in the Falklands is off the charts
The UK suffered a diplomatic defeat recently when the EU referred to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas
So whose sovereignty do Europeans support?
🇪🇸 52% Argentina / 14% UK
🇮🇹 32% / 21%
🇩🇪 30% / 24%
🇫🇷 27% / 23%
🇸🇪 23% / 28%
🇩🇰 23% / 31%
also
🇺🇸 24% / 35%
@Dannyboultz
We definitely should and our overall step free access is rather poor on the underground - but these mitigating measures aren’t just a Japan thing
400,000 homes is nothing. You could build 400,000 homes at the lowest possible density on London golf courses and you’d still only cover about half of them
A Christmas Carol isn’t an anti-capitalist story, it’s an anti-miseryguts story. The character portrayed as the man Scrooge should have become, Mr. Fezziwig, is the literal embodiment of jolly, whiggish 18th century capitalism
Why does no one talk about the fact that our arts/ culture is dominated by leftists, and this has now resulted in GCSE students effectively being taught that it is the only way to view social and political problems?
This is a problem. The English Literature GCSE syllabus
My one and only Deano take: this man is materially far more comfortable than anyone who knows what this meme is, and largely because of stuff within our control. If we’d stayed in our hometowns and got a sales job you’d be materially better off than renting in London
Maybe a hot take idk but politicians should call spades spades more often. There’s too much allowance given to morons, bad faith actors and general nasty pieces of work these days and we should call out their bollocks
A Magnum is not fucking ice lolly. That’s like saying a Mars Bar is a biscuit. If you asked your mum for an ice lolly and she gave you a magnum you wouldn’t believe your luck
With the UK sweltering this week, it's time for your annual reminder that Britain's favourite ice lollies are...
Magnum - 28%
Fab - 8%
Solero - 8%
Twister - 7%
Feast - 6%
Sir Alec earned 2.25% of the royalties from the first Star Wars movie, but he was one of the few British celebrities in the 70s who wasn’t a tax exile and the top rate of income tax at the time was 75%, so he ended up losing most of his Obi Wan Kenobi money to the exchequer
If this was in the UK the cafe would get its licence to trade revoked by South Tiddingford District Council after a resident in the flat above (who moved in approximately six months ago and knew perfectly well the cafe was there) complained about the noise
A small caucus of younger MPs wouldn’t “run the country” it’s highly unlikely any of them would be PM or cabinet ministers. They would however ensure those being legislated against in bills like this have a voice during readings and committees