The UK has had rolling heatwaves.
Nearly 3,000 are estimated to have been killed by them - so far.
Half of England is in drought.
Much of the south has had no significant rainfall for 33 days.
And there's no sense of how serious this is - at all!! - from those in power?!
Angela Rayner, "We won’t be looking at rent controls"
That’s even more voters Labour will haemorrhage to the Green Party
🇩🇪 Germany : rent caps
🇫🇷 France : rent caps
🇺🇸 USA : rent control in some cities
🇳🇱 Netherlands : maximum rents
🇦🇹 Austria : regulated rents
🇸🇪 Sweden : negotiated rents
🇪🇸 Spain : rent increase limits
🇮🇪 Ireland : rent increase caps
🇨🇦 Canada : rent increase limits
🇩🇰 Denmark : rent increase rules
🇧🇪 Belgium : rent increase limits
🇨🇭 Switzerland : rent increase rules
🇵🇹 Portugal : rent increase limits
🇫🇮 Finland : tenant protections
Extremely disappointing.
There is no hope of ending homelessness if we do not stand up to vested interests and take action against extortionate private rents.
We need rent controls, and we need them now.
The mask is coming off.
Andy Burnham used to support rent controls because "there was a significant crisis in the rental market"
Sorry, what? Apparently now renters are just fine?
Labour won't support renters properly.
The Green Party will.
https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
Told you. Under Burnham, nothing will fundamentally change. The attacks on migrants, activists, trans people, Palestinians and disabled people will continue as ferociously as before. A few economic measures will be shuffled around, but Labour's assault on civil rights continues.
So I cannot retire until age 68 but the UK wasted billions on unusable PPE and Mone is still in the lords and on her yacht yet now is ‘not the time’ for a wealth tax?!
New PM Andy Burnham says Labour “got it wrong” by supporting the genocide in Gaza
OK. Then free all the Palestine Action prisoners who got it right and acted to stop the genocide