Mike Norman

@tuscad3r0 @jneill Harlow and Harrow are different places

@jneill Y'don't really think about where Mosley got elected 'til you hear it was Harrow 'n it's like... yeah that makes a LOTTA sense 😭

Oswald Mosley, Lee 1918: Elected Conservative MP, Harlow 1922: Elected Independent MP, Harlow 1923: Re-elected Independent MP, Harlow 1924: Stood for Labour, Birmingham Ladywood. Narrowly lost by 100 votes 1926: Elected Labour MP, Smethwick 1932: founded British Union of Fascists

@smx_pd @gamecounsel No it doesnt. The work requirement is higher than that

@gamecounsel Benefits go uncapped if you work 1h a month. No need for the saw. Just do a trial shift at a shop once a month and get fired instantly.

I live in London in a lovely 3 bed council flat in zone 1. I don't work, but I receive £60k per year in welfare benefits. I played the long game, but here's how I did it.

@JHASTARKBAR Unless I’m wrong, I think this is about private as opposed to public meetings. I do wonder whether it might get tricky with north and south dialects…

Deliberately excluding all those in Wales who don’t speak Welsh

@RobertJenrick Takes one to know one

He’ll stand anywhere. He’ll say anything. Andy’s in it for himself, not Makerfield.

@russellquirk I mean, its not like we have a large bank of caselaw on this very point is it

Andy Burnham said in an interview last week that he wants to build council houses ‘at a level not seen since after WWII’. He also supports rejoining the EU. These two things are linked. As part of the EU we’d have open borders to anyone coming here via France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany etc Uncontrolled immigration. The resulting influx in migrants would be huge, necessitating a massive need for housing. That’s why Burnham wants to build 200,000 council houses a year. For migrants. This would cost £50 billion of your money. Every year.

@LlyrPowell Will you be supporting passage of the bill, which removes the ‘priority need’ requirement for emergency accommodation for homeless applicants in Wales?

Wales has a housing crisis. Families stuck on waiting lists. Young people priced out. People sleeping rough on our streets every single night. That should be the story not the First Minister forgetting his keys.

@PlinthBotherer5 Fun fact: Welsh housing law now has far more generous succession laws than English housing law since advent of Renting Homes.

Ludicrous that you should still need access to social housing after a lifetime in a plum Zone 2 house. Jobs and opportunities like most of the country can barely dream of, some of the best state schooling, they should be millionaires by now

@AlbertoBaIsam @anon_opin Out of interest, which part of Wales

@SpikeNorman @anon_opin please read the original post to which my reply is addressed. The author states that "You can't cash out without becoming homeless" - my experience proves that this is not true.

Your house price might nominally go up, but so does every other house. You can't cash out without becoming homeless. You can't upsize without the gap costing the same. It's the illusion of wealth.

@AlbertoBaIsam @anon_opin Ah, but the problem then moves sideways. The problem is muted for people who initially start in the London and then move out. That option isnt available to peopel starting from wherever you’ve moved.

@anon_opin wanna bet? I bought a house in Clapham in the early 90's for £60k. Moved to Wales last year, bought a house (that is a bit bigger if anything) and banked almost £750k 🤷‍♂️

@Frantique4 @ClaireCoutinho That surely cant be true of the triple-locked state pension?

@SpikeNorman @ClaireCoutinho Nothing to do with the increase in state pension. I also receive a works pension for which I paid into as well. Pensions have increased below the level of wage increases.

People can now get the equivalent of a £71,000 salary on benefits. Working people on £30,000 or £40,000 are asking themselves, why do I bother working so hard? This is not sustainable.

@russellquirk So he was elected somewhere else, and attended your meeting to check his pension entit…never mind

To be clear, this was an affiliated Labour member and not Cllr Lee Scordis

@sherpajacob @PlaidExposed I recall his Senedd Waste account making a similarly pointless attack a while ago, so Im guessing it’s the samw guy

@PlaidExposed No other nation would tolerate a vile scumbag who conspired to help his rapist Tory mate to escape justice. Hiding behind another anonymous account. Is this you Ross? Yet another post that proves you understand nothing about Wales and Welsh culture. You are not welcome here.

No other nation’s government ministers sing and gaze lovingly at a piece of cardboard. Happy to be proven wrong on this one.

@policylaila You seem to have missed out the bit where Labour implemented the Renters Rights Act literally last week, and so the whole thing about the tenancy renewing every six 6 months is obselete. PRS occupiers have much better security of tenure now 1/

Two men live in Zone 2 London. Both are around 30. Both sleep in a one-bed flat. But only one believes he has a future in the city. James was born in London. He went to university, got a degree, found a decent job and now works at a marketing firm near Old Street. He earns just under £60,000 a year. On paper, he is doing well. But every month James opens his payslip and watches a third of it vanish before he ever sees it. Income tax.National Insurance.Student loan.Then comes the rent. Nearly £2,000 a month for a small one-bed flat with mould around the windows and a landlord who only renews the tenancy six months at a time. Every evening James scrolls Rightmove looking at tiny flats he cannot afford in the city he grew up in. Even the cheapest one-beds near him now cost around £400,000. The deposit alone feels impossible despite earning more than most people in Britain. His parents bought their first home younger than he is now. James still does not know if he will ever own one. So he keeps renting.Keeps waiting. He watches friends delay children. People earning what used to be considered “good money” still checking every direct debit before payday. Now meet Shaheed. He arrived in Britain recently and was granted refugee status. He does not work. He lives in a one-bed flat in East London. His housing costs and council tax are largely covered through the welfare system. He qualifies for free prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests. He does not spend his evenings worrying whether the next rent rise will wipe out what little he has left at the end of the month. And this is the part driving so much public anger. James works full time, pays a fortune in tax and still cannot see a long-term future in the city he was born in. Shaheed does not work, yet has more housing security than the man whose taxes help fund the system. That is how a city loses its young people, because they stop believing hard work leads anywhere. London has to become a city where the people who work, contribute and build lives here can realistically afford homes, raise families and feel secure again.

@Frantique4 @ClaireCoutinho State pension has increased massively in recent years, thats why youre over a tax threshold

@ClaireCoutinho Just as bad for a retired person who also pays income tax. Why did we bother saving to make for a better retirement when all our previous hard work now goes out in income tax to pay for the uninvited and unwanted people.

@PlaidExposed Ah yes, journalists being famous for their aversion to the political classes

Something odd… Iorwerth jumped straight from being a BBC journalist to being a Plaid Cymru MS in 2013.

@ReformSecYork @alonso_hoyt @bmay I’m sorry, you think that the formation of an economic and steel agreement between France and a demilitarised West Germany is a similar principle to the Nazis invading Poland?

@alonso_hoyt @bmay I’m not sure that is true, though that is how it has been sold. Many people have tried to unify Europe before and each time it has failed. It is entirely possible to view WW2 as one of those attempts.

Since Brexit we’ve been unable to sustain a PM for more than a couple of years. The circus is ungovernable. Not helped by a political media clique that, emboldened by social media, thinks its job is to start a ticking clock on a PM’s downfall the second they start. Grim.

@funsize671 @jessicaelgot I dont think your MP has jurisdiction over that

@jessicaelgot Oh there’s the snivelling little shit that is the mp for my area - thank god I never voted for them! No shock as an HMO for immigrants a 7 minute walk from a primary school has been sneaked in under the radar.

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@SamJRushworth @robinthemint Dont forget George Freeman had to quit as a cabinet minister on a similar issue

I met someone in my surgery this weekend who had to sell their home because they could not afford the huge increase in their mortgage when their fixed rate came to an end during Truss' self-made crisis. Stop trying to re-write history.

@blizzard219 @PlaidExposed I agree with you on both points.

@SpikeNorman @PlaidExposed It is not in Labours best interest to completely lock them out of everything, especially when they can get concessions in exchange for not locking them out. But even if they did continue to lock them out (they wont) a snap election would simply be held.

The Senedd’s unionist bloc, which makes up the majority, should simply refuse to co-operate with Plaid Cymru. Paralyse them This means no deals, no budget-passing votes. Nothing. Isolate their separatist cause and work for the greater good of the Union instead.

@blizzard219 @PlaidExposed If we accept the premise that the “unionist” parties are insistent on locking out Plaid, then what coalition would you envisage?

@SpikeNorman @PlaidExposed This would be in no way evidence. Electoral deadlock happens in non devolution countries all the time. It would just result in a snap election or possibly force a coalition deal.