news & politics:discussion

[lost]

Anyone know what Michael Gove is going to do to mandatory house building targets?

[kaosmark2]

26 minutes ago, lost said:

Anyone know what Michael Gove is going to do to mandatory house building targets?

Buy them a fishery.

[Guest]

So it looks like Sunak can’t get much through Parliament at all with his party being so ungovernable. What’s the point if he can’t get things like this through?

[steviewevie]

loads of strikes.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

loads of strikes.

Good on them, they should be getting paid more. 

[Neil]

13 hours ago, fraybentos1 said:

 

What's the excuse for this? Presumably Labour's huge lead in the polls would evaporate if starmer didn't say that asylum seekers should be GPS tracked

no point gps taagging people without enough old bill to chase them down.

[Neil]

12 hours ago, Ozanne said:

Oh dear.

there's no many pensioners who are first time buyers. 😛 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Neil said:

there's no many pensioners who are first time buyers. 😛 

Well yes but Sunak folding on this isn’t going to help the housing crises. 

[lost]

The 20% falls in house prices that some are forecasting should help the housing crisis.

[fraybentos1]

2 minutes ago, lost said:

The 20% falls in house prices that some are forecasting should help the housing crisis.

I think it will be more than 20% by now the way things are going, they dropped over a percent last month and that was mainly pre budget chaos.

Could see a drop of a third.

[Guest]

We need more houses and NIMBYISM isn’t helping with that. 

[fred quimby]

1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

We need more houses and NIMBYISM isn’t helping with that. 

Exactly, let's get rid of local approval and give it to the tory central office and their Developer mates

[steviewevie]

well...if not going to build more houses just have to hope either the economy crashes or loads of people die before they become affordable for first time buyers...

[fraybentos1]

House prices are already coming down. The main reason they shot up was cheap credit. Plus a couple ludicrous policies such as help to buy and stamp duty holiday.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

well...if not going to build more houses just have to hope either the economy crashes or loads of people die before they become affordable for first time buyers...

The Tories don’t care about the housing crises because this way they can force people into rental accommodation paying over the odds in rent. 

[Crazyfool01]

Seems a while since the last u -turn ..... now we have wind 

[Neil]

9 hours ago, lost said:

The 20% falls in house prices that some are forecasting should help the housing crisis.

not round here where houses go for £50k above asking price.

[Guest]

This one keeps on unraveling. 

[Guest]

 

[steviewevie]

Sunak u-turns on onshore wind farms now. Good news I guess.

[gizmoman]

14 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

What is the point of twitter having a limit on the number of characters in a tweet if it can be then extended into a multi tweet diatribe? Even more relevant. What is the point in having an account on here if all you can do is post other peoples opinions? Get some arguments of your own. This is efestivals, if I wanted to view tweets I could be on twitter, but I don't.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, gizmoman said:

What is the point of twitter having a limit on the number of characters in a tweet if it can be then extended into a multi tweet diatribe? Even more relevant. What is the point in having an account on here if all you can do is post other peoples opinions? Get some arguments of your own. This is efestivals, if I wanted to view tweets I could be on twitter, but I don't.

Someone’s in a bad mood this evening, why don’t you go back to posting Covid conspiracy theory nonsense again. 

[gizmoman]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

Someone’s in a bad mood this evening, why don’t you go back to posting Covid conspiracy theory nonsense again. 

I can't, there's no covid thead, sorry to intrude, I'll leave you and Stevie to dominate as usual.

[Guest]

 

[steviewevie]

7 hours ago, gizmoman said:

What is the point of twitter having a limit on the number of characters in a tweet if it can be then extended into a multi tweet diatribe? Even more relevant. What is the point in having an account on here if all you can do is post other peoples opinions? Get some arguments of your own. This is efestivals, if I wanted to view tweets I could be on twitter, but I don't.

I mean...twitter threads are a feature of twitter, they could have a link to an article in there, or a thread. I think people don't mind threads, I think they're a good thing, you don't have to click on them, bring it up with Elon maybe? And as for opinions, this is Peston saying what he thinks is behind the govt strategy, and Peston talks to people and knows stuff that we don't, so a more informed opinion, and is interesting.  Don't you post youtube videos of people from GB news or a Corbyn interview and expect people to watch them?