TheGrandNagus

The effect of this would be extremely minimal. Almost all empty homes in the UK are homes that are temporarily empty pending sale or between renters. Having empty homes is actually extremely normal, you can't really not have empty homes, as people are always moving.

With rare exceptions, empty homes aren't just sitting there empty for years, like this article implies. The landlords would much rather rent them out and make money.

The UK has far fewer empty empty homes than anywhere else in the developed world. Our housing stock isn't enough.

There's no other option but to build more. I hope Labour's plans can help with that, but who knows. And it'd need to be sustained.

NIMBYism is killing this country. We have the smallest available housing stock in Europe by some margin. Labour are right to be trying to make a dent in the issue.

Unsurprising. Iran has made threats about our bases not long ago, although thankfully so far they've not done anything. Hopefully it stays that way. The last thing we need is to be dragged into this.

Authoritarian arrest?! They broke into an RAF base and crippled multiple planes, FFS.

Why do you want Farage to win so badly? He'd be awful for the country. Do you not see the damage he's already done?

No, the majority are not questionable. Every single one of those are unambiguously left wing moves.

People are falling victim to the anything to the right of me [socialist] is right wing.

Labour are objectively a centre-left party, and I just gave evidence of that. Saying "well all of that is left wing... but it doesn't count!" isn't a legitimate argument.

Of course defence is important. How separated from reality are you for you to think it isn't?

Sabotaging UK defence is obviously a bad thing, and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

Ok, so clearly you didn't read my comment.

Feel free to read it then get back to me. Goodbye until then.

Is it normal for all MPs to have met the PM in a close encounter? I genuinely don't know.

... by Reform not being tackled? I thought it was self evident? How can I say that it's raining outside? By looking at the rain outside.

Did you not read my comment?

they could declare Reform a terrorist group and lock them up

I'm sure that'd be legal and go well. Just declare political opponents terrorists and arrest them. That's some Trumpian shit right there.

You don't need to defend Labour here. They'll throw you under the bus to protect the wealthy too.

Who says I'm defending them? I'm being realistic.

"Protect the wealthy" lmao. It's like you've completely ignored the government's actions.

Come on, "throwing around red paint" is quite misleading, no?

They poured it into the engines of multiple RAF jets, destroying those engines. That's several million in damages, and a lot of downtime.

And legally speaking, it absolutely was a terrorist act.

Newey was reportedly pissed off about the whole sexual harassment thing.

Honestly the above comment infuriated me.

They would not be defending this person if they were a man.

Having lower expectations of women isn't progressive, it isn't feminist. It's infantising. It's misogyny of lower expectations. "Oh you can't expect women to understand the difference between right and wrong."

A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.