British Politics Thread.

[Psychosplodge]

Spain is so economically backwards they'd probably still be quite happy for you to retire there to spend your money.

[Wolfshade]

The obvious parallel is with the SNP, charasmatic leader, playing under dog, one agenda. Both rely on feelings over fact.

[Denzark]

A nasty lefty political pseud gets caught out - ironically by a Channel 4 reporter. Its like watching a snake eat its own vomit:

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[CoffeeGrunt]

A nasty lefty political pseud gets caught out - ironically by a Channel 4 reporter. Its like watching a snake eat its own vomit:

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Eck, I've never been a fan of that guy anyway.

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Oh, of all the things Mr Cameron has done, this, will be the one to undo him.

[Psychosplodge]

Russel Brand reminds me of geldoff and bono and the like, more about making themselves the centre of attention rather than solving anything.

CG that is still as ridiculous as it was when I saw it in the offtopic thread.

[Mr Mystery]

Chancellor''s Statement later today.

Interested to see what a Tory Election Warchest looks like. Haven't seen one of those for a long time.

Brand can bog off. Calls for a revolution - by the medium of not voting. Yeah. That'll show those moral minority parties with a core of fanatatical supporters repeatedly voting for them what's what. The big goon. (would use stronger language, but work sweary filter).

[Path Walker]

The thing is, the question doesn't invalidate the protest, it just points out the inherrent hypocracy in Russel Brands new image as lefty jesus (not that Jesus wasn't left wing).

The matter at the heart of the issue is still valid, rent is spiralling out of control in London as property prices reach ridiculous levels (which is a bubble that will burst hard at some point) but the Tories won't do anything about it because their backers are getting rich off the back of it.

People like Russel Brand, who are rich and can afford massive rents, feed this problem. He draws attention to the plight of people being evicted, to make himself famous to earn more money, to pay more rent so that poor people get evicted. He is a part of the cycle.

And don't get me started on the "don't vote" thing, thats ridiculous 6th Form politics. Its almost like his views have been targetted and tailored to directly attract the 16-23 year old demographic...

[Mr Mystery]

Has he mention he used to do Heroin yet?

Usually comes up pretty quickly, followed by hours upon hours of talking about himself.

[Path Walker]

Has he mention he used to do Heroin yet?

Usually comes up pretty quickly, followed by hours upon hours of talking about himself.

And how he was poor (because he spent all his money on heroin).

He doesn't seem to mention that he was married to multimillionaire singer Katy Perry often though, which is odd.

[Denzark]

The matter at the heart of the issue is still valid, rent is spiralling out of control in London as property prices reach ridiculous levels (which is a bubble that will burst hard at some point) but the Tories won't do anything about it because their backers are getting rich off the back of it.

It is a very surface analysis to claim this is a tory problem given the amount of multi-million pound property portfolios are owned by Labour grandees and their families. You do of course know that the labour MP who caused the twitter storm in Rochester, Emily thornberry, is actually more formally known as Lady Nugee becuase she is married to a millionaire knight of the realm.

The question your post raises to me is as follows:

Why should central government rule on property prices? As you point out, it is a bubble that will burst. Either people will move out increasingly en masse, causing property to fall in price both rental and ownership - or employers will need to add extra weighting to London wages to make it workable to live and work there.

The only group of people that it should effect where government must get involved is people whose accomodation is paid for by government. But then I see absolutely no reason why people should be entitled to property they cannot afford - in their location of choice. I am not entitled to have a government funded ferrari to drive instead of my ford. So why shoudl government pay for high London costs when it would be cheaper to the taxpayer to pay accomodation prices in Lincolnshire or rural areas?