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Good that Andy Burnham and others are talking about abolishing ‘right to buy’, the disastrous Thatcherite policy that continues to destroy so many lives.

Yet we need to go further and introduce ‘right to buy back.’ Any former council homes now being privately rented out should be buyable back by councils with the same percentage discount they were originally sold for.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/england-right-to-buy-thatcher-labour-leadership

Man of the people Farage, has chauffeured BMW park in a disabled spot for 45 mins while he picks up his M&S order (Union Jack bag naturally) we must remember, Nigel represents the common working person, he is just better than you obvs. Also he hates disabled people



"the BBC was projecting that if these results were repeated across the country at a general election, would win about 34% of the vote, compared with 25% for the ."

An electoral system when one can rule with barely a 1/3 of the vote isn't a fair one. It creates monsters like , who'll win by getting the bare minimum additional support by taking it only from his direct opponent to see himself in power, while keeping the silent and not so silent majority disenfranchised.

LONDON OPINION POLL

London mayoral voting intention by :

🔴 Sadiq Khan (Labour): 45% (+1)
🔵 Susan Hall (Conservatives): 26% (=)
🟠 Rob Blackie (Lib Dems): 10% (+3)
🟢 Zoë Garbett (Green): 6% (-1)
⚪ Howard Cox (Reform UK): 5% (=)
⚫ Others: 7% (-2)
🗑️ Count Binface (@CountBinface): 1% (=)

Sadiq Khan leads by 19 points.

Conducted 18-23 April 2024. Changes with 21-26 March 2024.

Total shock as once again as Tory racism is revealed. We will do anything to win said Rishi Sunak, we will stoop to any low, sell our souls and drag the nation into chaos and violence for a single vote . This is how we will win the next election 



“Absent a desire to confront Toryism as a material force rather than simply as a tally of seats – and without the intent to confront the Tories’ bunkers of power through serious media and electoral reform – ’s tiptoe approach makes the obsolete only by making them unnecessary. One might ask who really becomes extinct in this process: the Conservatives or Labour?” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/27/tories-politics-general-election-conservative-party

Look, no one is saying the whole thing was a corrupt and heinous plan by the wealthy and Britain’s enemies to leave us on our knees, it’s just that the whole thing was a corrupt and heinous plan by the wealthy and Britain’s enemies to leave us on our knees