Politics

[royal white]

It is all a bit confusing. To say there’s plenty of houses and then say they’re going to build on average 900 a day for the next 5 years is quite a bold claim. I’m guessing there’s builders raring to go and thousands of planning applications that have all ready been passed. 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

31 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

I don’t think she did. The interviewer was conflating many issues, using debatable stats,  interrupting her and generally being a knob from the bit I saw. 

It was certainly an answer to the question "where are they going to live?"

I'm not sure that's really up for debate

The interviewer was revelling in catching her tripping herself up but she did trip herself up

[bolty58]

On 10/12/2024 at 06:42, Casino said:

Your maggot needs freshening up, cos thats dreadful

Maggot? The missus calls it a drain pipe.

[RoadRunnerFan]

1 hour ago, royal white said:

It is all a bit confusing. To say there’s plenty of houses and then say they’re going to build on average 900 a day for the next 5 years is quite a bold claim. I’m guessing there’s builders raring to go and thousands of planning applications that have all ready been passed. 

Maybe, just maybe families native to this country have different housing needs to recent migrants. 

One HMO could house 6-10 single men easy. 3 Bed Semi is housing Mr & Mrs Average and their 1.7 children. 

So maybe the number of 'houses' needed is not necessarily in direct proportion to the number of people.

Just a thought. 

[royal white]

8 hours ago, RoadRunnerFan said:

Maybe, just maybe families native to this country have different housing needs to recent migrants. 

One HMO could house 6-10 single men easy. 3 Bed Semi is housing Mr & Mrs Average and their 1.7 children. 

So maybe the number of 'houses' needed is not necessarily in direct proportion to the number of people.

Just a thought. 

I don’t think anyone has said that? 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

There is reportedly a shortage of starter homes; those required for couples without children, or maybe just one.

[RoadRunnerFan]

1 hour ago, royal white said:

I don’t think anyone has said that? 

In the original video the fella states the number of homes targetted to be built and the number of people intended to live in them. He the states a the number of people expected to come in during the period. Tice then takes the number of people to come in, (which is roughly 5/7ths of the number of people the new homes will house) and presents it as 5/7ths of the houses for immigrants. It's 5/7ths of the places in houses, not the houses themselves and ignores different densities for the different groups. 

Edited December 11, 2024 by RoadRunnerFan

[royal white]

52 minutes ago, RoadRunnerFan said:

In the original video the fella states the number of homes targetted to be built and the number of people intended to live in them. He the states a the number of people expected to come in during the period. Tice then takes the number of people to come in, (which is roughly 5/7ths of the number of people the new homes will house) and presents it as 5/7ths of the houses for immigrants. It's 5/7ths of the places in houses, not the houses themselves and ignores different densities for the different groups. 

So who do we have plenty of houses for then? 

[mickbrown]

Apparently there are over 700,000 unfurnished and empty houses in the UK.

 

[RoadRunnerFan]

2 hours ago, royal white said:

So who do we have plenty of houses for then? 

Investors to leave empty

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

I see Badenoch had chosen the week the Government secured agreements on illegal migration with other countries and began deportation flights to Pakistan to once again attack them on immigration

I bet Starmer can't believe his luck

[mickbrown]

1 hour ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I see Badenoch had chosen the week the Government secured agreements on illegal migration with other countries and began deportation flights to Pakistan to once again attack them on immigration

I bet Starmer can't believe his luck

She’s thick as mince. I love her. 

[Traf]

Kemi Badenough.

[jayjayoghani]

8 hours ago, mickbrown said:

Apparently there are over 700,000 unfurnished and empty houses in the UK.

 

I'm selling my Bolton flat atm, it's empty being charged full council tax. Used to be a 50% discount for empty properties. Assume this a disincentive against it but it probably needs more.

[royal white]

34 minutes ago, jayjayoghani said:

I'm selling my Bolton flat atm, it's empty being charged full council tax. Used to be a 50% discount for empty properties. Assume this a disincentive against it but it probably needs more.

I’m doing one up at the minute in Darwen. They only offer 25% discount if it can’t be lived in due to restoration work. 

[Mounts Kipper]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw2zydnv7lo
 

Bad news in Europe… at least Spain doing well, hopefully boom years for Spain… and without a bust the end of it. 

Edited December 12, 2024 by Mounts Kipper

[Cheese]

6 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw2zydnv7lo
 

Bad news in Europe… at least Spain doing well, hopefully boom years for Spain… and without a bust the end of it. 

Spain are in the EU... Let's have a look at what we could've won...

 

Edited December 12, 2024 by Cheese

[gonzo]

4 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Spain are in the EU... Let's have a look at what we could've won...

 

You can't park there mate.

[Dimron]

38 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw2zydnv7lo
 

Bad news in Europe… at least Spain doing well, hopefully boom years for Spain… and without a bust the end of it. 

The Eastern European EU states will be shittin' it now the French and German gravy trains are going to be turned off

[Mounts Kipper]

27 minutes ago, Dimron said:

The Eastern European EU states will be shittin' it now the French and German gravy trains are going to be turned off

And no UK coin either 

[gonzo]

50 minutes ago, Dimron said:

The Eastern European EU states will be shittin' it now the French and German gravy trains are going to be turned off

....they'll be soviet states in ten years

[bolty58]

3 hours ago, Dimron said:

The Eastern European EU states will be shittin' it now the French and German gravy trains are going to be turned off

House of cards.

Shame we have this shower of shit in government. We should be ready to high tail it to The Dons door in January to negotiate a trade deal that will really be worthwhile rather than fucking around with this teetering failed project.

I just hope it results in Brussels sandwich shops becoming very busy with a commensurate decrease in turnover for its Michelin star restaurants.

[Spider]

9 hours ago, bolty58 said:

House of cards.

Shame we have this shower of shit in government. We should be ready to high tail it to The Dons door in January to negotiate a trade deal that will really be worthwhile rather than fucking around with this teetering failed project.

I just hope it results in Brussels sandwich shops becoming very busy with a commensurate decrease in turnover for its Michelin star restaurants.

The Tories had 8 years to sort it.

Just maybe, it’s not sortable.

That milk and honey is still waiting for us in LaLa Land

[Dimron]

13 hours ago, gonzo said:

....they'll be soviet states in ten years

And all those billions spent on Ukraine arms and paying over the odds for our gas will have been to no consequence... we never learn

[Farrelli]

Putting trading barriers between your nearest and largest market is an act of utter stupidity.