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Dan Hind retweeted
There's nothing benign about uninterested ministers changing their stated policies every other media interview, while they shrug off the destructive cuts being made by BBC executives. It's entirely wilful neglect
While a handful of billionaires control our information and Farage plans not one, but two, Reform TV platforms the BBC is withering away through benign neglect app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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Housing should be cheap, plentiful and beautiful. If that means house prices fall and bloated housebuilders go bust, then why should anyone on the centre left care? That should be the mainstream social democratic position and the fact it isn't is absolutely horrifying.
We’re acting to support those who can’t rely on help from the bank of Mum and Dad.
Our Your First Home scheme will help more families get their first rung on the housing ladder with a deposit of just 2.5%.
Less to save upfront and a 20% equity loan to bring down monthly costs.
With pre-registration set to open by the end of the year, help is on the way for first-time buyers.
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Dan Hind retweeted
Let's be honest.
A lot of young people have stopped believing they'll ever own their own home.
That's what happens when rents are high, house prices are high, and saving for a deposit feels impossible.
My Labour government is stepping in to help.
With Your First Home, first-time buyers will be able to buy a new-build home with a deposit of just 2.5%.
Because hard work and saving should count for something.
And because the dream of owning your own home shouldn't belong only to those with help from the bank of Mum and Dad.
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Professional wrestling is organised around the drama of the heel and the face. The face is the wholesome one, who always plays by the rules, the crowd's best instincts made flesh. The heel cheats like fuck and the referee never seems to notice. The face's job is to lose.
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Dan Hind retweeted
We all understand nobody thought Boris Johnson would be a good PM, except for him and possibly - but not definitely - his wife. He was a flunkey, a rubber johnny that this country’s political/media class used to fuck everyone in Britain, then they discarded him and emerged clean?
I remind you that half of your political/media class frantically urged you to vote for this pig-ignorant, disastrously incompetent crook, and the other half frantically urged you not to vote for the only viable opposition, and then put two and two together about why they did that
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Dan Hind retweeted
Genuinely baffling. This is a bailout to the developer-led property model, instead of the actual system change we need.
Councils need funds and infrastructure to build council housing, leasehold need to be abolished across the board, and we need rent controls now.
Let's be honest.
A lot of young people have stopped believing they'll ever own their own home.
That's what happens when rents are high, house prices are high, and saving for a deposit feels impossible.
My Labour government is stepping in to help.
With Your First Home, first-time buyers will be able to buy a new-build home with a deposit of just 2.5%.
Because hard work and saving should count for something.
And because the dream of owning your own home shouldn't belong only to those with help from the bank of Mum and Dad.
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If you vote for Labour in Holborn and St Pancras this is what you will get for the rest of Burnham's term in office: more bungs for the rich and a bare cupboard for the rest of us.
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham will announce a new "Help to Buy" scheme next week
Called "Your First Home", it will allow young people to buy their first home with a deposit of just 2.5%
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Doing what the left wants would alienate super wealthy donors, the other great powers, the financial sector. Without articulated and massive collective power the left has to be ghosted.
Burnham has ‘ghosted’ the Labour left, says Clive Lewis
politics.co.uk/2026/09/burnh…
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The question is almost always asked by people who have no idea what money is, and would find it ridiculous, if not offensive, if you suggested they should find out. Money for them is an unanalysable, finite lump, a magical isotope of gold, and there is nothing more to be said.
every time, the same question 'how will you pay for it?'.
if Burnham won't contemplate radical institutional change/financial repression, if he keeps the status-quo, then the answer can only be austerity for a part of the welfare state to patch the other.
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The circumstances that will make the break possible are largely outside of our control. But a task that is both possible and necessary is the creation of informed collective agency at scale, so that when the crisis comes there is no option for our electeds but the break.
I think @michaelujacobs is quite impressive on this podcast episode, which will be interesting to anyone who's listened to all 4 of the CPP episodes on what it would mean to actually break with neoliberalism. The bigger question is... (1/2)
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Call it a party, if you like, call it whatever you want. But design it so that every member has eyes on its operations and governance, and can be reasonably confident that its officers will act faithfully in pursuit of the shared agenda. prometheus-mag.com/2025/07/0…
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Dan Hind retweeted
I think @michaelujacobs is quite impressive on this podcast episode, which will be interesting to anyone who's listened to all 4 of the CPP episodes on what it would mean to actually break with neoliberalism. The bigger question is... (1/2)
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Fine, but an unreformed BBC cannot be saved @arusbridger. A public media system fit for the digital age will cost a lot of money, a politically unsustainable amount unless we have a voice in the governance and operations of what is supposed to be our BBC. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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One minute it's all
"We need someone from the tech sector to run the BBC, someone who understands all this AI stuff ..."
the next it's all
#BBCLauraK: “Would you allow a programme to be made and presented by AI?”
BBC Director General Matt Brittin: “I would do, within guardrails”
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6gr…
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Unearned income and inherited wealth are the rewards we are promised, in the great transformation worked by carousel. The idle rich are the receding mirage that keeps up completing the daily round and the circuit of capital.
It's weird that politicians who want to "encourage more people into work" never support abolishing landlords or 100% inheritance tax.
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