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@WilliamClouston As deep as a puddle.

As I predicted some time ago, Ed Miliband will be our next PM. The pitch is being rolled with tripe like this from Gaby Hinsliff: ‘Miliband is the cabinet’s resident deep thinker at a time when big ideas are suddenly back’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@CutMyTaxUK Why? We know why, they’d rather redistribute money to those that don’t work and keep them in power, from those that make this nation and have the brains to realise Labour are not fit for purpose and should never, ever be anywhere near government again.

If Poland is going to slash fuel taxes why can't our Government in Britain do the same? The Polish government will cut VAT & excise levies on fuels by 23p per litre.

@KeirStitt @Nimbymyths @MattLismore Yup, 100%, that’s the best route forward.

@esf69 @Nimbymyths @MattLismore So maybe the answer is to give freeholders a common hold off-ramp and then turn the screws on the liabilities of freeholders who decide not to quit.

I don’t think people realise that creating a 2 tier flats market with leasehold (existing) and commonhold (new) could crush leasehold property values further. That would place leading UK banks in the position of holding huge volumes of mortgages where the borrower is in negative equity. This wouldn’t be an issue if defaults stay low, but should a significant number of leaseholders start defaulting, banks could be in considerable bother, causing significant harm to the UK economy. Further, if leasehold flat values fall after commonhold comes in, even more properties will fall into the service charge > 1% of value bracket, making them largely unmortgageable. @mtpennycook it is vital that we don’t create a 2 tier market in flats - it has the capacity to have significant knock on consequences.

@RollingHedge I’m at the point the only feasible vote left is one done with feet. The UK may be salvageable, but not in my lifetime.

This account - belter after belter after belter Realise what the state steals from you Understand what they piss it all away on Grasp that all that money doesn’t come back to you in any useful way Be aware Be angry Vote accordingly

@KeirStitt @Nimbymyths @MattLismore That’ll change if / when they stop selling leasehold. It’ll become a 2-tier market.

@esf69 @Nimbymyths @MattLismore The people who already do. Mostly because their conveyancer doesn't adequately advise them of the features of a leasehold.

@Nimbymyths @MattLismore Who is going to buy a leasehold when a common or freehold is available?

@MattLismore Share of freehold flats, which already exist, don't seem to attract a substantial premium over pure leasehold. Why would it be different for commonhold?

@RollingHedge Sorry, but you’ve been far too kind to him here.

Rory Stewart needs to be studied. No one in political living memory has been more 180° wrong on every topic going than this clown. Mid wits assume he is bright because he looks like a geek and speaks with an OE lilt. He’s just a posh spaz. Sorry. I am so tired of this fawning preening bollocks from friendly left adjacent media. Stewart is literally the fucking Jim Kramer of politics. Bin.

@WafflesInfo @FPLFella Even if you’re right, you’ll be so old when you get it and it will be so little as to be meaningless.

@FPLFella OK fella. There will be a state pension.

The replies to this are astounding. People have no idea that in 20-30 years time there'll be sod all state pension payments.

@mark_wootten In your head I’m sure this happened. In reality… nah.

Popped a card and a small gift to my neighbours for Eid-al-Fitr and look what they’ve just brought round. This is spectacular. How lovely.

@JackWDart @JGerrings Why are you criticising a working government that is making it easier to kill the elderly and legal to basically abort babies?

@JGerrings It’s not a fake narrative if it’s factual, pal. It’s not my fault you can’t be bothered to check.

American-style attacks on women's reproductive rights are already happening in Britain, funded by the same organisations, the same money, and with direct links to Nigel Farage.

@AndrewW53363445 @DanielGoldersUK @DavidMcGregorBN If you want communism comrade, fuck off to Russia. Da?

@DanielGoldersUK @DavidMcGregorBN Yes, they need to freeze rents

People ask what Labour has actually done. Try telling a renter facing a no-fault eviction that ending Section 21 doesn’t matter. Try telling a struggling family that breakfast clubs don’t matter. Some of us know these things change lives because we’ve lived it.

@JackWDart Absolute desperate drivel Jack.

Nigel Farage recorded a paid endorsement for a Canadian neo-Nazi group. The Guardian has the footage. This is who he is when he thinks no one important is watching. #ReformUK #NigelFarage #Politics

@RobertJudd4 @KayBurley Kay thinks hurty words worse than murderous actions. She’s a useless journalist that enabled the Blairite rape of Britain. Oh, and she’s a bit of a cunt too.

@KayBurley Pearl Harbour was pretty offensive and the unbelievable shocking treatment of prisoners of war by the Japanese. They have a lot to apologise for!

Or the most offensive diplomatic gaffe in post war US/Japan history. You decide…

@Jonathan_Hinder Jonathan, you’re a fucking moron.

YOU are probably paying more in property tax than the owner of this £130,000,000 mansion this year. We need a new wealth tax. One that actually works. We need to REPLACE council tax and stamp duty with a proportional property tax.

@ManOfKent15 Block vote. Yes, a minority, but as a group they vote uniformly and the head of the house will organise for every family member to vote the same way. Large use of postal votes too. It’s election interference and should be tackled because it is dragging the UK down.

Can someone explain to me why both the Greens and Labour are courting the Muslim vote if Muslims make up only 6% of the population? Labour has abandoned the white, working class, who I'm sure account for more than 6% of the population.

@colonelhogans Racists are cheering? They are the racists you fool.

Congratulations to the Muslims in Lakemba who forced the PM to leave the mosque. You just played right into Pauline Hanson, Angus Taylor, the RW media and every racist and Islamaphobes hands! You really and truly fucked it up! He went there in good faith. You spat on him and the racists are cheering! YOU HAVE LOST MY SUPPORT!

@LilyWonderland5 @DouglasCarswell You’re seeing same think now - taxes and borrowing out of control. Are you blind, or just stupid?

@LilyWonderland5 @DouglasCarswell Not caused by Labour, but massively mismanaged economy that couldn’t handle the GFC under Labour. Not so China and India etc.

If Britain grew at the same rate in the two decades after 1997 that it grew in the two decades before 1997, UK GDP would be more than 30 percent higher today. Three decades of Blairite government has been a disaster for Britain.

@LilyWonderland5 @DouglasCarswell It is for you, because you’ve admitted austerity happened under the Tories because of the GFC under Labour and also that didn’t happen in other countries.

@esf69 @DouglasCarswell The growth of China and India decreased. It didn't go negative because their growth was so high to begin with. This isn't difficult.

@LilyWonderland5 @DouglasCarswell It didn’t hit every country. Not China, not India plus many others. So just a few billion people there. Like I said, clueless.

@esf69 @DouglasCarswell Because of the global financial crisis which hit every country. I said that.