Patch Davies

@beth_stratford @NEF Hi Beth, I can't see this report anywhere - has it been published yet?

1) I'm analysing impact of rent reductions on landlord profit margins using HMRC data. The impacts are marginal; vast majority of landlords have large profit margins. (Can't share results publicly yet, report to be published by @NEF, but happy to share with Labour's housing team)

Many MPs urged gov't to include rent controls in Renters Rights Bill last week (see t.ly/VZ79-) But @mtpennycook & @AngelaRayner argued rent controls wld reduce supply of homes Short🧵w/ data to show this risk is small & can be mitigated, and benefits outweigh costs

Anyone looking for a one man band? youtu.be/e5uog0vCYY4?fe…

why does it feel like it's 2010 all over again? probably because this government is made up of the ideological children of the last Labour government who innovated most of the attacks on sick and disabled people (esp asylum seekers) that the Coalition government then escalated?

OVER 500 RENTERS from every corner of our city came together today to send a clear message to politicians. We won't stand for the exploitation any longer! We need #RentControlNow!

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars I also don't think we should censor our own ideas/practices because respectability types will mobilise against them. But it's been interesting hearing your take on it!

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Ok, personally I think it's useful/agitational idea that has developed out of, and that coheres, various types/sites of resistance, and that links powerfully between other struggles.

Practically everyone scoffing at “abolitionism” talks as though it is something that its supporters want to achieve in the short/medium term, on the basis of society as it currently exists. The claims against it, to that extent, fail to meet the argument at its own level.

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars I think I'm getting where you're coming from now. But NGOs didn't create abolitionist ideas - I think they're probably more extractivist in relation to it. Maybe the bathwater is the NGOs and the baby might be careful discussion of abolition within and grounded by movements?

@Patch_JD @ESOLallstars People are going to throw the baby of rhetorically radical NGO/US imported leftism out the window, and with it the bathwater of any meaningful or radical political commitments. Well be left with a stodgy respectability politics presented as grounded and realistic.

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Ok, that sounds like a potentially interesting criticism (I'm generally not v keen on NGO-land) but I'm just not sure where you're getting it from, and how abolition as a horizon, linked to practice, might be conservative, or lead to something even more conservative...?

@Patch_JD @ESOLallstars I think this is a key mistake. I don't think abolitionists are the radical end of a spectrum of campaigners. I think its more the conservative, NGO end. And I think not understanding that is going to aid the rise of an even more conservative iteration.

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Ie. some proportion of people active in the housing movement want the abolition of landlords. Some proportion of people in the labour movement will want the abolition of bosses, capitalism, class. /2

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Yeh, I mean there's obviously a whole spectrum of people with differing experiences/beliefs where some proportion of people critical of + resisting policing might also want 'abolition', + even call themselves abolitionists. I think that's comparable to most movements. /1

@David_Jamieson7 If anything, it’s just another (v important) way in to struggles and consciousness-raisings that are deeply linked? /7

@David_Jamieson7 1) Again, I don’t know why positioning abolitionism as in competition. My experience of it is that it often draws on implicit/explicit forms of anti-capitalist practice, desires, theory – more often anti-racial capitalism / black Marxism than strands that focus less on race. /6

@leninology @PattesSouris @ArgenBenja @ING (it's bit opaque)😅

@leninology @PattesSouris @ArgenBenja @ING Could you poss expand a bit on what you mean by 'tellingly opaque'?

@David_Jamieson7 or other disciplining/carceral forces. Abolitionism also much broader + deeper than just idea of totally abolishing the police/prisons. My sense is that we use that utopian idea(I don't mean utopian in sense of not actually real aim) exactly in order to inspire/agitate/provoke /3