Socially Distant Phil

@FinanceTiger They, the government have killed the market, pathetic lenders pulling deals from the market for no reason, they’ve got us by the balls and just want to keep squeezing, no one wants 1 bed flats, they want 2 beds at least so they can share costs, so we will end up back in 1930’s

🚨 The UK property market is incredibly challenging. Personally, I’ve never ever seen it like this!First-time buyers can’t afford it and retirees can’t downsize. Leaseholders are trapped too and begging to be freed. It almost seems the Prime Minister doesn’t care. Why ? 🤔

@juliandc We bought a new build in 2023, the site contains 123 houses that took 3 years to complete, ours didn’t qualify for developer installation of panels but the last phase did, so those who bought last got a set of panels, nice ones mounted in line with the tiles.

@Junkcom It’s a v good point. One wonders if they will with new regs requiring solar. Or perhaps not 🫤

Excellent solar day. 24.85kWh from my 14 year old 4kW system. Good. Didn’t bother the grid between 6:30am to 7pm. Heated h/w & EVs for free. What’s not to like 👍

@dailybritainonx Nope, not for me, blown it with the ridiculous house building program, none of the parties, especially the greens look any better at the moment, greens with crazy policies, Reform likely to make the NHS privatised with a US style system that would perpetuate sickness

She grew up in Stockport, left school at 16 pregnant, worked as a carer, became a union organiser and rose to be Deputy Prime Minister. She is the bookmakers' 6/4 favourite to be the next Labour leader. She is ferociously effective at PMQs, has genuine roots in working-class communities, and connects with voters that Starmer visibly struggles with. Is she the future Labour needs?

@stuey_beef Yes, definitely feels like a strange myopic country where on the one hand we lose heritage companies like Denby this week and on the other hand pay out £4 billion quid of the people money to deal with illegal migration, and I cannot get an appointment for NHS dentists

It genuinely feels like we now live in two different countries. In one Britain, people drag themselves to work, pay eye‑watering taxes, National Insurance, council tax, energy bills, travel costs – and still stare at their bank balance wondering how they’re going to afford new shoes for the kids. In the other Britain, a growing army are parked on benefits with rising sickness and disability claims, pulling in combined payments that can beat a full‑time wage and then stacking extra perks, from cut‑price bills to leisure and lifestyle discounts, on top. The same government that says it is “cash‑strapped” and “tough choices” for services somehow finds endless billions for a welfare system its own Prime Minister now calls “unsustainable, indefensible and unfair” – but the only people expected to swallow it are the workers footing the bill. We pay. They benefit. That’s the deal. And it is ripping any sense of basic solidarity to shreds.

@TheNorfolkLion Blame the people who leave their rubbish in overflowing bins, common sense would say take it home like normal people, it’s not more bins you need, it common sense an discipline

They blame everyone else but themselves for why there’s rubbish everywhere and why they live in a shithole. It’s a cultural thing.

@juliandc That’s impressive, I don’t have that much roof space and the one I do have is not ideal for placement, it’s interesting to me how developers don’t think about that when designing new builds, have a roof that faces the correct way

@Junkcom 16 in total. Two strings of 8 on an SMA Sunnyboy 4000-TL20 inverter.

@DesmondSwayne Where does the money come from to pay your MP pension?

Many 10s, 20s & 30s already believe the Government simply won't have the money left to pay them a state pension We must do right by our children and grandchildren and return state pensions to normal growth, so they still have a viable state to inherit telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions…

@BMM1882 Australia has a different take, something like this would be a start than trying to integrate unknown people into communities

It’s increasingly difficult to keep track of crimes committed by illegal migrants - the news is so saturated with stories that it’s hard to follow. Even the BBC, our national public service broadcaster, which has long seemed reluctant to investigate these matters, has begun reporting on the serious problems associated with our immigration crisis. We all know that rapes and sexual assaults committed by asylum seekers living in hotels have become alarmingly frequent. In a single week before Christmas last year alone, sixteen such cases were recorded. Sixteen rapes. One week. All committed by asylum seekers living in hotels. I’m currently reading some of the several posts I’ve just retweeted, and one question keeps coming to mind: why are any of these men here? Why do our political class (and those who run cover for them, including large sections of the legacy media) take no issue with the presence of such sadistic, depraved, low-IQ, third world savages - including, it seems, the literal Mouth of Sauron - into our beloved Britain? Here are screenshots of some of those posts, since I can’t quote tweet them all. The Somali murderer. The Egyptian/Iranian gang rapists, one of whom is a murderer on the run from his homeland, all three now appealing their deportation at the taxpayer’s expense. The Iraqi Grindr rapist. When does it end?

@DanielJHannan Yes it is the definition of something strange, however as we left the EU we forfeited the right to use the Dublin agreement, returning those who come here to their original port of origin and countries that were part of that agreement

We must be mad, literally mad. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

@blaiklockBP Looks like a petition to me, not law

Muslims who use their living rooms as places to pray are EXEMPT FROM COUNCIL TAX Another Muslim wheeze. How many houses does this cover ?

@ANDIBABY8 Apparently it’s only three months, one year would be completely unworkable

Under the new renters rights act. If you give notice because you want to sell, and the sale falls through - you cannot rent it again for a year. How is this going to help the housing shortage? Landlords pay tax on rental income too. I see another black hole appearing!

@Fox_Claire @cllranderson Asylum, from what exactly were they running from, just awful

Every aspect of this story is stomach-churning. Two of perptrators met on a small boat, and 3rd teamed up with them in Asylum hotel. Details of the rape itself are bad enough; their attitudes to rape victim, whose abuse was filmed, just so gross.

@NiohBerg The crazy thing about these cases is why Egyptian nationals would feel the need to bypass legitimate routes into the UK, and then we find out one of them was convicted murderer so would never has been allowed to set foot in the country in the first place, but was free to be here.

Three illegal immigrants have been found guilty of gang raping a British woman on a beach in Brighton. They brutally raped her while filming and calling her a "Dirty b****". At one point, one of the rapists grabbed hold of her face, forced open her mouth and spat in it while encouraging his friends to do the same. The victim said: "I was begging them to stop and they wouldn't. Every time I close my eyes I can see them laughing at me. They thought it was funny. My skin crawls because of what they did. They're evil and they've ruined my life." She may never recover from this trauma. This is what the British government has done to the women of this country. There needs to be a reckoning.

@Essex_CC I’ve had the misfortune this week of having to attempt to drive on the road through Sturmer, as a council you should hang your heads in shame at the despicable condition of the road surface, did you have a highways office bet on how long you could leave it like this?

@GeorgiaMaeCole1 Nothing to hide, personally, unlike some members of our society

@carla_denyer No, they’re in a free country -France, and now Belgium, if they want to come to the UK, then apply to be here with proper paperwork and reason for being here

More cruelty from Labour today, who will send riot police to stop migrants in small boats These are human beings fleeing war and persecution If govt really wants to end dangerous channel crossings, they must open safe and managed routes to the UK bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@ukboomers A lovely homage to AI

I had to charge £200 for extra cleaning on our Cornwall Airbnb this week. £400 a night and look what they did. Wine rings on the slate. Cups everywhere. A candle burnt to nothing. In our day you left a place better than you found it. Now they walk away like it's a hotel.

@RobertKwolek Architecture has a lot to answer for, you only have to look at the monstrosities being allowed to be built around Liverpool Street, insane, and now they want to desecrate what is left of the busiest station in London

The image on the left is a real place. One of the most pernicious things repeated in some quarters is that what buildings look like doesn't matter, only urbanism. Here's the same urbanism. One is dystopian and soul crushingly ugly. The other would be a nice place to live.

@emilyhewertson Not if everyone has to pay for the consequences

I don’t smoke and I don’t like smoking, but adults should be able to make their own bloody choices. 🙄