Unfortunately I fear they could force councils to sell for less than market value again, then sit back and relax as the media fellate them for being so kind to the poorer people in society (whilst completely ignoring the wider societal problems that causes)
Based.
People won’t like it, but this is absolutely the right decision for the country.
Either don’t sell them, or sell them for full market value and put any profit into a fund to build more council houses.
I wish people would stop complaining about the WFA cuts. Those that need them still get them, and triple lock pensions are going up by an estimated £460.
Even if they lose out on their £150, they’re still going to make a gain on £310.
The past is the past. Kier doesn’t have a time machine, nor was anything the UK did under the previous Trump government his fault.
It’s 4 years from now.
I mean I get you, but it’s not worth burning bridges with a very close ally just so you can look based on a tweet.
The US is very powerful and Trump has proven himself to be very petty. He could make life difficult for the UK, and we’re in a precarious position to begin with.
We have to put up with the US’s shit decision and try to minimise the damage. It’s 4 years.
Fair enough
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Typical nanny state
My house isn’t inside a school or a hospital, therefore I can’t even smoke in my own home. Absolutely raging.
E: Christ. Sad day when a sarcasm tag is clearly needed on a UK community. /s for the people who didn’t get it.
I’m so fucking sick of this discussion.
If your income is in the form of dividends, stock selling, or collecting rent money, you’re not a worker.
If you work as an employee for a company, and are also a landlord on the side, then yes you are a worker. But you are a worker because of the working for a company part, not the landlord part.
End of discussion.
Now let’s look at a paragraph from this dog shit article, breaking it up into points…
I know investment bankers and corporate lawyers who work far more hours and under much greater pressure than me.
And? Nobody ever said investment bankers or lawyers weren’t workers. They work for companies and are paid.
They have no inherited income, come from ordinary backgrounds and their wealth is entirely down to their salary.
Ok? What does this have to do with assessing whether someone is a worker or not?
But that salary is simply too large for them to count as working people.
When did the government or anybody ever say that anyone with a decent salary isn’t a worker?
In any case, I’ve watched several episodes of Industry, and they are patently the wrong type of working people. And what’s more, they are having way too much sex, although Starmer has not quantified how much coupling working people are allowed.
I don’t even know what to say about this. Are they unrelatedly complaining about sex in a TV programme, or do they genuinely think Labour’s view on who counts as a worker comes down to how often that person has sex and how many people they have sex with?
It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking £39 per month paywall too.
Bikes obviously have their place. For the time being, so do cars (although cities could certainly benefit from being less car-centric).
The operator of neither should be pissing about on their phones, both for their own safety and the safety of others.
I’ve had my jaw fractured by a cyclist who knocked into me due to not paying attention. I now have an ugly scar because of it.
There’s all kinds of obstacles in cities. Including hundreds of thousands to millions of people. I can tell you from experience that a bike going into you at 30-40 km/h will hurt.
It’s not at all unreasonable to be against people pissing about on their phones while cycling.
The issue is compounded by cyclists who ride through pedestrian areas, cyclists who seem to think red lights don’t apply to them, and people getting electric bikes and whizzing around effortlessly at a high speed.
It was certainly annoying. I contacted JustEat to try to find out who did it, but I couldn’t get any information from them
Thankfully I live in rural Northumberland and only occasionally travel down to Newcastle or up to Berwick or Edinburgh, so I don’t see them much.
I’m not even sure you can use any of the delivery apps here. Just old fashioned ringing up and asking for a delivery
Oh yeah he got away and wasn’t identified
I’m fine now, it was a few years ago. I just have an ugly scar I’m a bit self conscious about
If there’s a path with a lot of pedestrians on it, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that cyclists are expected to get off their bike and walk like everybody else.
I had my jaw fractured because some speeding JustEat delivery man came blasting through a pedestrian area of Newcastle on his bike, clearly not paying attention.
It was very painful, I have a scar on my face, I couldn’t work or eat comfortably for a while.
Overall a good budget, the best one we’ve had for a while.
That said, I’m very saddened by dualling the A1 in remaining parts of Northumberland where it’s still single lane is being scrapped.
It’s an 8 mile stretch and a 5 mile stretch, both surrounded by inexpensive grassland or farmland. It would take a trivial amount of money to do, yet improve the infrastructure here massively.
The amount of times I’ve seen ambulances stuck in traffic or even waiting at junctions along the A1 up here is crazy.
Seemingly everywhere else the A1 has 3 lanes. If this was in the south east not the north east, it would have money thrown at the problem until it was fixed.
Huh? They’re lowering taxes for small businesses.
That’s a larger increase than I was expecting, what, like 3x inflation?
It’s certainly not a magic silver bullet that singlehandedly fixes our low wage economy like a lot of people on Reddit/Lemmy appear to expect, but it’s a positive step at least.
I just really hope there’s serious infrastructure and employment investment, particularly in the seriously impoverished areas like the North East of England. And I hope their planning permission changes will actually have a noticeable effect. Time will tell.
E: no lol, they cancelled infrastructure improvements in the North East. Red or Blue, we always get fucked to the benefit of London and the South East.
Dump rubbish into rivers that killed a significant number of fish, along with other plants and animals, get fined £18k and £4k respectively.
What a joke. The bosses of these businesses should be in prison.
Lol whatever you say.
The amount of people claiming it went up massively thanks to the news surrounding WFA.