#286

This has strong Kamala Harris “CANCELLING STUDENT DEBT*” vibes

*if you received a Pell grant and ran a business for 3 years in disadvantaged communities

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#287

Anyone noticed how the last three or four question times there’ve been proper fascists basically requesting Labour abandons left wing ideology altogether
Like why would they even exist in this case

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#288

“You wanna win, right? And you see who’s winning? Well, I think you know what you need to do.”

#290

Somehow every sentence is worse than the preceding! Which is some going considering the blistering start.

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#293

Don’t forget, you can save the rest of it for a deposit on a house! Fucking hell.

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#294

I take back every hesitant thought that she’s actually a better qualified unity candidate, give me whatever Shiny Starmie’s pitching over this shit.

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#295

bet it’s not even gonna be one of those student dorm type ones, with a bar and a gym and a hairdressers and that

fair play to The Thorn, this is the best political-related laugh I’ve had in months

edit #2 and fucking look how it’s being reported as this great egalitarian idea, jfc

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#296

So, say you’re earning the median wage in your 20s (roughly 22k haha) and you’re giving Emily half of that for your youth silo, you’ve £200 left a week before bills (I’m assuming bills aren’t covered here). So yeah, if you were earning 22k at the age of 20, immediately got into Emily’s youth hutch and saved rigorously maybe, MAYBE you could buy a house when you were turfed out on your 30th birthday, but also, no.

Like, you could conceivably save £50k if you were the incredibly lucky person who actually fit those criteria, but how many people is that going to actually be?

Also, why is she trying to promote private property as the endgame for a ‘progressive, radical’ policy?

#298

Just total failure to engage with any of the systemic issues that people face - it’s a no from me.

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#299

Damnit Emily I was just warming to you

#300

She’s a very good speaker - I think she has the verbal pizazz that Starmer’s supporters probably wish he had - and her loyalty to Corbyn was admirable.

But that’s not really enough to go on, is it.

#301

Post election, QT has managed to be even worse than normal. Typically one Labour voice, strongly hostile audiences (even in Stoke Newington last night!), just a general consensus that any Labour project has now finished in defeat, Tory rule is eternal.

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#302

Tbf to them I honestly do kind of think that for England

#303

She’s also very experienced, does very well at the dispatch box and I do have a soft spot for barristers in politics. But if that’s indicative of her policy offerings then it’s bloody weak sauce.

#304

Yeah I’m hoping this is just post-election malaise but it does feel worryingly true.

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#305

What do people think of this?

Seems like Starmz has been the victim of some lies? Still not voting for him.

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#306

I’m paying less than half my salary on rent (works out about 38%), and based on what I currently save each month it would still take me about 10 years to build up a 20% deposit for a flat equivalent to what I live in now.

Presumably my life would move on in that time and after 10 years I probably wouldn’t want to live in a 1 bed city centre flat.

This is a terrible terrible idea.

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#307

The most damning thing I’ve read all day is that it sounds exactly like a Lib Dem flagship policy. Got skills wallet written all over it.

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#308

Just cap rents, raise benefits, increase the personal allowance to £300 a week, introduce a lower basic rate of tax on salaries of up to £20k, privatise the utility companies, introduce personal finance into the national curriculum, and offer the richest one percent the choice of 90% tax, jail or death-by-drowning. How hard is it?

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#310

God lord, get on a ballot paper because I want to vote. You. In.