Reform UK's chronicles

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Also, builders aren’t interested in building affordable housing - I live in North-West Leeds, and most of the new houses built in this area in the last five years are 4 or 5 bed detached, ranging from £650k to £925k; there are a few "affordable" houses in those new estates, but those are 2 or 3 bed semis or mews costing £325k to £425k.

Considering that the average salary in Leeds is £43k, that must be a new definition of "affordable" I hadn’t encountered before…

Too true Hugh*

There's nothing being built, and very little out there for sale that fits into the 'young new homeowner' range of around £140k to £170k . . . unless you really fancy a 2 bed rabbit hutch.


* apologies for the rhyme

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Also, builders aren’t interested in building affordable housing - I live in North-West Leeds, and most of the new houses built in this area in the last five years are 4 or 5 bed detached, ranging from £650k to £925k; there are a few "affordable" houses in those new estates, but those are 2 or 3 bed semis or mews costing £325k to £425k.

Considering that the average salary in Leeds is £43k, that must be a new definition of "affordable" I hadn’t encountered before…

That's down to the developer claiming they have a right to make (very) good profits over their requirement to build the required number of affordable homes on a development. A developer will regularly apply for changes to site layouts to reduce the affordable properties to make way for profitable properties. The planning system is skewed towards profit.

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

That's down to the developer claiming they have a right to make (very) good profits over their requirement to build the required number of affordable homes on a development. A developer will regularly apply for changes to site layouts to reduce the affordable properties to make way for profitable properties. The planning system is skewed towards profit.

You would prefer it skewed towards loss , great idea

Why not neither ?

[Sephiroth]

Prolly because the world or the UK at least doesn’t work that way. Human nature as expressed in the haves/have nots skirmishes.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Labour's new laws will see foreign criminals like him deported.

That one gave me a good belly laugh. You should have posted that one in the jokes section!

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Utter total gollox.

Try looking at this properly. They are from different cultures, some of them directly antithetic to ours. Is that what you want? The eventual destruction of our culture?

They have no right to be here. They are in France and that should be good enough.

You can see the trouble that the presence is causing; how hotels that could accommodate business people are now housing jump-the-queue migrants. You can see how the leeching human rights lawyers are raking it in to keep these people here.

All this altruistic guff about they'll work harder because there's no bank of mum and dad. Gollox, gollox, gollox. They'll go into their own ghettos, with all this entails including no-go areas that are happening in London.

Please, get real. Is this hell what you really want?

[thenry]

Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK

https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...#liveblog-body

Has Nige offered her a Damehood?

[Carth]

I'm surprised he's given her the time of day, she was a useless liability to her Bedfordshire constituents

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Carth

I'm surprised he's given her the time of day, she was a useless liability to her Bedfordshire constituents

I'm not surprised she's joined Reform UK, given her track record.

Meanwhile, in the States, Farage has not been getting an easy reception with his attempts to paint UK as comparable to North Korea.

Nigel Farage was branded a “Putin-loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant” by a US congressman on Wednesday who launched a severe critique of the Reform UK leader before the Briton gave evidence to a committee in Washington DC.

Democrat representative Jamie Raskin urged voters in Britain to “think twice” before voting for Mr Farage, accusing him of only protecting free speech he agrees with.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2819428.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0ez8wj275zo

[Sephiroth]

I think Farage shouldn't be grandstanding like that. By all means give evidence to a US committee, but do it with gravitas and care. It will worry Conservatives like me, who have a soft spot for Farage.

Or, he could have been doing his day-job, attending Parliament after it’s Summer Recess…

(Or was he representing Clacton on the "International Stage"? He may wish to hold a Surgery there, as he hasn’t so far in the 16 months he’s been an MP, or perhaps vote more often in House of Commons votes (in the last session, he voted on 95 out of the 267 votes).

Perhaps he was to busy being a Brand Ambassador for Direct Bullion for 4 hours work per month, which he has received £280k so far, or for the £40k he received from Nomad Capitalist for 10 hours work on a speech, or the £120k he gets from Cameo video recording, or the £310k from GB News, Orr the £50k he got for visits to the USA?)

[papa smurf]

what's the point of being in parliament on PMQ Wednesday, that labour lacky Lindsey hoyle hardly ever gives reform a chance to ask a question

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Or, he could have been doing his day-job, attending Parliament after it’s Summer Recess…

(Or was he representing Clacton on the "International Stage"? He may wish to hold a Surgery there, as he hasn’t so far in the 16 months he’s been an MP, or perhaps vote more often in House of Commons votes (in the last session, he voted on 95 out of the 267 votes)).

Above: A highly confected and holier than thou piece of sarcasm.