Stuart Coster
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@StuartCoster
Research & campaigns • Better democracy • End Leasehold • Owner of broken cars • Director @DemocracyMovemt • Co-founder @PeoplesPledgeEU
@hughjarse1982 @HarryScoffin Good luck with that. But my scepticism on costs reducing significantly comes having purchased the freehold and RTM and really, other than having control, the cost savings were not that great.
EXC: Inside the UK-EU reset negotiations -The UK is looking at imposing an annual cap of 45,000 on young Europeans who can come to Britain, similar to the limit for Australians on working holiday visas -Reeves opposes EU students' fees demand for fear of universities going bust
Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…
Note how Sadiq Khan casually rejects multiple, basic democratic principles - and be very afraid of what the EU's biggest fans want to do to democracy, the power of our votes, our basic rights to hold politicians and lawmakers to account. He represents the autocrat tendency.
Starmer told the Commons that Mandelson "lied to me". Turns out not only did he not speak to him, he stopped others looking into him
The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
LEASEHOLD IS KILLING THE FLATS MARKET AND LABOUR PROTECTS THE EXPLOITERS 🥀 Leasehold is a scam. But this @UKLabour government has caved to Big Money interests who want to keep it going. They’ve published a draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill that’s been watered down. The manifesto and King’s Speech promised the remaining @Law_Commission recommendations on enfranchisement and Right to Manage. Yet none of it appears in the draft legislation published in January. Service charges can quickly become a second or third mortgage, and are often arbitrarily imposed and increased at rates that far outstrip inflation. People’s salaries are not increasing in line with service charges. Why would any sane individual put their life savings into an asset controlled by someone else – someone whose interests are completely opposed to their own – and whose extractive behaviour could easily devalue the property, making it unmortgageable and impossible to sell? It’s no wonder Barclays has found that first-time buyers are skipping flats altogether and instead procuring their ‘forever home’: a freehold house with no extractive outside freeholder and more predictable, controllable running costs. A recent analysis by Hamptons found that leasehold flats are disproportionately losing value compared to freehold houses. For example, in the capital, 60% of property sales were flats last year, but these represented 90% of homes sold at a loss. We have a crisis in the flats market and no serious government response. Even after winning a High Court judicial review fought by the freeholder lobby in October, the government won’t commence long-awaited policies in the 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act. That includes abolishing marriage value and setting enfranchisement rates high so leaseholders can more cheaply extend a lease or buy the freehold. Labour was founded to take on rentier interests. Yet with the second biggest majority in the party’s history, it acts powerless. Putting exploiters before the exploited. Local elections aren’t far off. Leaseholders will remember at the ballot box. telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
Sadiq Khan is advocating breaking a manifesto pledge in this parliament, then over-riding the EU referendum vote by general election, in order to hand control of lawmaking, trade, foreign policy, defence and much more back to the unelected EU Commission. None of his views are compatible with democratic principles. #Brexit #democracy
Sir Sadiq Khan has called for Labour to go into the next general election promising to rejoin the EU. Chief Political Correspondent @hzeffman explains the comments made by the mayor of London.
🚨 BREAKING: The UK unemployment rate has risen to 5.2%
