Of course we can't do anything about this in the short term, but long term we should be doing everything we can to fix property pricing. It's such a stranglehold on both citizens and businesses.
People can't afford to go out and spend because it's all servicing a mortgage or rent, which goes to wealthy landlords or banks, rather than circulating locally/improving government tax intake.
Businesses have to hike prices to pay for exorbitant rent rates, which further reinforces people not being able to go out and spend.
The government spends several billion per year on housing benefits, which has went from a benefit to help the few who fell through the cracks and needed a bit of assistance, to huge numbers of people completely reliant on it else they can't afford to house themselves. And who gets the money? That's right. Landlords.
We obviously can't snap our fingers and have more houses overnight, but I hope the upcoming planning reforms and mandatory building targets actually bear fruit.
I'm a home owner by the skin of my teeth (I worked 84 hour weeks, saved relentlessly - destroying my social life, and moved to the North East where housing is cheap), but I'm fine taking a hit in house value if it's for the good of the nation. Fuck the people who pulled the ladders up after them.
Why jump through all these hoops, and lessen the security of your browser in the process, just to do something that is being fully stripped out soon anyway?
Just install Firefox. It's not like you can't import your bookmarks and such.
The effect of this would be extremely minimal. Almost all empty homes in the UK are homes that are temporarily empty pending sale or between renters. Having empty homes is actually extremely normal, you can't really not have empty homes, as people are always moving.
With rare exceptions, empty homes aren't just sitting there empty for years, like this article implies. The landlords would much rather rent them out and make money.
The UK has far fewer empty empty homes than anywhere else in the developed world. Our housing stock isn't enough.
There's no other option but to build more. I hope Labour's plans can help with that, but who knows. And it'd need to be sustained.
NIMBYism is killing this country. We have the smallest available housing stock in Europe by some margin. Labour are right to be trying to make a dent in the issue.
No, the majority are not questionable. Every single one of those are unambiguously left wing moves.
People are falling victim to the anything to the right of me [socialist] is right wing.
Labour are objectively a centre-left party, and I just gave evidence of that. Saying "well all of that is left wing... but it doesn't count!" isn't a legitimate argument.
They would not be defending this person if they were a man.
Having lower expectations of women isn't progressive, it isn't feminist. It's infantising. It's misogyny of lower expectations. "Oh you can't expect women to understand the difference between right and wrong."
A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.
Reading into this, it seems like there's actually a lot going on right now when it comes to sorting out our decaying (ha) dentistry services.
Good.
If this gets well and truly sorted, this will be a visible, tangible thing people can point to and say they've done well there.
People can't really conceptualise the less visible things like "wages have gone up by 2% more than inflation this year", "inflation has dropped by 0.3%", "infrastructure investment has been raised by X%!"
We're bad at understanding numbers like that and visualising what impact they will make on our lives over a longer period of time.
The difference between "I've not been able to get a dentist appointment for 4 years" and "I can trivially have one booked every 6 months" is something that everyone will notice and appreciate.
Japan has been living in the year 2000 since the 80s.