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@StuartSmudge

Just a creative passing on my perspective & lived experience. Celebrating 30 yrs of my Kidney transplant. Advocate for fair rents as a social tenant myself.

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Stuart@StuartSmudge·
With news that unemployment is at 5%. I thought I write about what so any seem to ignore, rents. I know it will be alien to so many. But you have to look at rents and at policy, not simply blame the claimants in my view. [@Shelter] [@jrf_uk] [ @ONS ] stuartsmudge.com/when-work-does…
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@redrumlisa Seems to be something missing here. Any 56 day wait would be more about what they call 'intentionally homeless' or have suitable accommodation, the situation when you present as homeless basically. Many will find a place & present to council, but they won't have a duty of care.
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@SKithiyon56925 @Telegraph Agree, same with Brexit. Pushing one size fits all and ignoring fair rent and social housing has failed. 30 years of pushing everyone the same way and ignoring manual work and trades. Now they complain too many came to fill those jobs.
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Great Facts House@SKithiyon56925·
@Telegraph So lockdowns get blamed for everything now, while no one questions decades of deeper systemic failures.
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The Telegraph@Telegraph·
✍️ ‘Mass immigration, soaring debt, worklessness — all have their roots in that disastrous but popular decision’ Daniel Hannan makes the case of the 2020 lockdowns still shaping Britain’s economy 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…
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Stuart@StuartSmudge·
@Telegraph So lockdowns are to blame for £1400 average rent and £2200 in London? Not the rise in private rents since 2020? meaning its now harder to take jobs that cover the bills and rent. If the take home pay won't cover the rent and bills, what would you do?
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@PolitlcsUK Ok production team, do we have a Starmer impersonator yet? - Well we have a guy that used to do Zippy and apparently it sounds just like him 😄
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Politics UK@PolitlcsUK·
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer’s calls with Donald Trump are mocked in the launch of Saturday Night Live UK #SNLUK
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@robjeffecology @AlexofBrown @June4th Greens can't deliver change so what's the point? They are a protest party, nothing more. The housing situation is serious and its been coming for years, we all saw it happen. The last thing we need is Farage on the other side of the road, selling a car that will never be built.
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Alexander Brown@AlexofBrown·
Exc: Angela Rayner calls for an increase in community-led and co-operative housing models in fresh intervention. She says: “Fixing the housing crisis will take fresh thinking and more homes built for communities and shaped by communities.” mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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This is what annoys me about Labour now & Rayner. We know what works as social tenants. We also know selling off 2 Million council homes and not replacing then was a mistake. Instead of acknowledging mistakes & actually listening, its here's a fresh idea for a headline.
Alexander Brown@AlexofBrown

Exc: Angela Rayner calls for an increase in community-led and co-operative housing models in fresh intervention. She says: “Fixing the housing crisis will take fresh thinking and more homes built for communities and shaped by communities.” mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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RJ@robjeffecology·
@AlexofBrown @June4th She has backed property developers to the hilt for last two years… Vote Green for actual decent and proper amounts of social housing…
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@AlexofBrown Maybe if Rayner met us on the social housing resident panel, she would have heard that fresh thinking 😉 We need more social housing and fair rent and Labour to deal with reality of need. Millions of workers won't own a home, one size fits all has failed. All jobs are important.
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@HarryScoffin @PJTheEconomist Of course we needs flats and far more homes with fair rent, as all jobs are important. Also not everyone will own a home & everyone earns a different wage. So the point about social mobility is an important one.
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Harry Scoffin@HarryScoffin·
@PJTheEconomist Paul, why ignore the collapse in demand for what developers have been peddling? Sellers need buyers. People do not want flats anymore because they’ve woken up to the extractive legal structure of leasehold underpinning this type of home. 96% of new-builds in London are flats…
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Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist·
What is happening to house building in London is a national disgrace and a huge economic own goal. Worse, it stymies social mobility, locking young people from poorer families and from other parts of the UK out of the London labour market.
Tom Forth@thomasforth

So here would be an amazing data story in housing. It's looking quite possible in the data so far that Dublin will complete more homes than London in 2025. Not per capita. Absolute number of new homes completed. Higher in Dublin than London.

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Stuart@StuartSmudge·
@labourpress Nearly 2 years into a Labour government, we still have no clue what Labour's identity is.
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Labour Press@labourpress·
Just three weeks in, we finally have a clear answer from Kemi Badenoch on whether she supports the war.
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@BBCNews I don't think they ever will until Labour start listening. The whole working people rebrand won't work for them. It alienates the working class under that umbrella. Who work in min wage or low paid jobs, as well as those that did them, or retired. One size fits all has failed.
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@HalfacreeDavid @sp4rkl3jumpr0p3 Voting Greens ends up being a wasted vote, as I have seen before in an area I used to live in. They get voted in as part of a protest, then next time around all replaced, because they change nothing. Many won't trust the leader either IMO.
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@sp4rkl3jumpr0p3 I completely agree. I know loads of Labour voters. Sensible people that I associate with making good decisions, care about the environment but not particularly engaged in politics. Seems obvious to me that they’ll become Green voters.
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@sp4rkl3jumpr0p3 Respect for what you believe, but I am a realist. The Greens or Reform for that matter cannot change anything for me. At a local level both parties will do well in May. But that will trigger changes and new leaders. I suspect many will be waiting for that to happen.
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@omnisophos @DavidMcGregorBN I am working class living in social housing, explain to me why the Greens are on our side? They are not a main party, so can't change anything.
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David@DavidMcGregorBN·
Working class people do not need more chaos from the likes of Farage and Badenoch. We need decent pay, secure housing, rights at work and public services that function. That’s why I’m Labour. And I’m far from the only one.
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@DavidMcGregorBN 'We need decent pay, secure housing, rights at work and public services that function.' I suspect most of us would agree. So, why are Labour not building enough social houses? 18000 a year over 10 years is woeful. Also why are they ignoring rents for the working class?
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@CarlosNFFC @bphillipsonMP Agree, they have to stop hiding behind these headline grabs. Fact is people will decide if they are better off or not, not their latest post on here.
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Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP·
😞 Our offer of 30 hours of government-funded childcare is no longer saving families £7,500... ...it's now saving them £8,000! 😃 Labour is delivering for working families and tackling the cost of living.
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@bphillipsonMP But if you are working class doing one of the many jobs that need doing on low or min wage. Labour is doing nothing about your rent cost as most of your wages go on keeping the roof over your head. £1400 average and £2200 in London. What are Labour going to do about it?
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@johnpringdns They are going to have to look at rents. As we all know, not everyone will be able to work, facing a change of circumstance. But equally there will be some that want too as I did. The government seems incapable of looking at rents and housing, as well as support for people.
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@UKTogetherAll Agree, Farage is part of the problem causing division, but so are the left who have failed. Calling everyone far right simply for a difference of opinion. Where is the march for the 172000 homeless children? those with disabilities facing cuts? Just another day out for a video.
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Together Alliance@UKTogetherAll·
Misogyny. Anti-semitism. Racism. The evidence is clear: Nigel Farage is not the answer to division; he’s part of the problem. And his behaviour is sickening. Enough is enough. Join us on 28 March, together against the far-right. theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…
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@ZoeJardiniere Its not about them being an enemy though is it? you still have to acknowledge the issues many face in this country. That's the issue I have with a lot of the argument on the left now. They will jump on latest headlines, yet ignore 172000 children homeless in temp housing.
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Zoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere·
The implication here is that your enemy is the refugee who has escaped a genocide & has to fight not to be separated from their children. You don’t want to switch places with a Gazan refugee. You want to take on the wealthy elite who deny us all healthcare & housing.
Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿@stuey_beef

A British student can’t get an NHS dentist. A British family can’t get a council house. But a Gaza student can use the ECHR to drag her whole family here because it would be ‘unjustifiably harsh’ not to. The only people our courts think don’t have rights are the British.

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