Category Archives: housing

News round up

Posted on April 28, 2024 by daryan12
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Knives out for Rayner

Posted on April 11, 2024 by daryan12

So the right wing media’s latest obsession is that Angela Rayner once owned a council flat! And that she might have profited from its sale and possibly maybe didn’t pay about £1-2k of capital gains taxes (but who needs evidence … Continue reading →

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Grumpy old men

Posted on April 8, 2024 by daryan12

A couple of weeks back Daily show host Jon Steward got himself into hot water by asking questions about whether Joe Biden might be too old to be president (Biden will be 82 on election day and 86 when he … Continue reading →

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Labour’s Jamaican switch

Posted on April 5, 2024 by daryan12
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The corrupt hypocrisy of the Tory cult

Posted on December 11, 2023 by daryan12

So it seems the biggest losers from the Tories latest immigration policy will be British citizens. Terrified by the jump in net migration numbers (even thought its entirely consistent with the post brexit reality), the Tories have raised the threshold … Continue reading →

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Fixing the pension time bomb

Posted on September 30, 2023 by daryan12

It was always the Tory plan to run the country into the ground, then blame labour for the mess. However, I think its suddenly dawning on them that they may have laid it on a bit thick (maybe they should … Continue reading →

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Debunking right wing myths: Ultra Low Emission Zones

Posted on July 21, 2023 by daryan12

The political right is out of ideas and even the ideas they do still support (such as neo-liberal capitalism, i.e. the rich get richer while everyone else gets poorer), aren’t exactly very crowd friendly. So, while they have every intention … Continue reading →

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Holiday Catchup – the calm before the storm

Posted on August 30, 2022 by daryan12

I’ve been on my holidays back in Ireland. It was nice to get away from the mad house that was the UK for a wee while. A lot seems to have happened since then. Zombie government and the looming winter … Continue reading →

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Debunking right wing myths – The good old days

Posted on July 24, 2022 by daryan12

A few weeks back Johnson, under pressure from a no confidence vote, made a bizarre announcement. That the UK would be re-introducing imperial units of measure. Now that we are out of the EU, we can buy beer and milk … Continue reading →

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How brexit is turning the UK into a haven…for human rights abuse

Posted on May 29, 2022 by daryan12

One of the main motivations for brexit was to tackle immigration. However, even before the referendum, it was pointed out to the brexiters, that their plans would be unworkable and counter productive. Job markets are fairly complicated and restricting migrant … Continue reading →

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