The council house swapping Facebook groups and websites are very eye-opening. There are 6- and 7-bedroom properties on offer in Zone 2 at ~£750 a month. Private rents for similar properties would be £6,000+. Enormous subsidies are being distributed in the worst possible way.
@stendhalist Basically anti-growth + inflationary policies:
High energy costs (net zero)
High housing costs
Regressive taxation
Uncontrolled welfare spending
Regulation preventing building anything
Scaring away all investment.
We larp as a rich country while actually being poor.
@AlexTurlais@echetus Solar during the short winter days?
Batteries that can sustain multi-day downturns in wind generation?
All bs than admit we cocked it up by going for net zero by banning shit, instead of first building the capacity.
Look at how fast we’re deindustrialising as a result…
@AlexTurlais@echetus We rely on wind which doesn’t run 24/7.
We replaced coal with gas (net zero goals). And then gas went tits up and we didn’t build any fucking nuclear reactors!!
SE/FI run mainly on nuclear and hydro. Latter works well for small population and a lot of landmass comparatively.
Tony Blair confidently putting to bed the ‘40 year neoliberal consensus’ argument, which unfortunately is rearing its ugly head once again.
No Labour politician should be peddling this line, not least because it isn’t grounded in basic reality.
If there's no evidence people left the country after their visa expired, the ONS just *assumes* they left.
Via FOI I have found out that this assumption now accounts for a *fifth* of all non-EU emigration - and rising rapidly.
The govt must get a grip on who is in this country.
@Cookieurch@but_cyclists@maxtempers Holy shit. You are being purposefully dense.
When you LEASE a mutability vehicle, the finance company (motabaility) will put a marker that they have a ‘financial interest’.
This prevents the vehicle fraudulently being sold by the recipient.
Remember that keeper != owner.
“Argentina was once as rich as Germany and richer than France. It isn’t anymore.”
In a generally excellent essay this is the most important line. Everybody expects Britain to muddle through no matter how poor our leaders are. There is no - zero - reason to believe this is true.
@ZephyrOTFR@onmy9thlife@Matthew__Bowles Anyone can try. You’ll realise after rent, business rates, vat, etc it’s difficult to be competitive because the margins are so low.
Thats why you need to operate at massive scale to even break even.
Why are focused on punishing Tesco, or whoever for being able to scale?
@ReznorBlake@Dawsonforpm@ZackPolanski We’ve gone so “woke” on border control that every single other country on the planet is “far-right” compared to us.
@TheLiarbility@Matthew__Bowles Our country is in the gutter because you retards keep advocating for taxing any sort of success while the government spends like crazy on the welfare state.