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Boiler wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 2:02 pm If we'd had this at the turn of the last century Alan A. Jackson wouldn't have had anything to write a book* about.

Didn't know he was a writer, but he was very patient putting up with Carol and Bianca.

The A was probably added to avoid confusion with the country music star.

In fairness, it looks like the money will be going to charities in Lewisham. But looks like that isn't quite what he said before the election. I think he'd be advised to base the 20% donation on the original salary.

Bigger problem is that he's promised a load of council housing he isn't going to be able to deliver.

Q: There are 11,000 households in Lewisham on the waiting list for social housing, but we know that developers don’t want to build it. How are you going to address this?

A: I think we need to be tougher on developers and not accept a very low quantum of social housing.
The really obvious one is Lewisham Shopping Centre.
Any sort of objections or concerns around a development that only delivers 6% housing for social rent are interpreted by the Labour Party as being anti-homes and anti-development.

It's interpreted as being anti-homes and anti-development by me as well. I don't doubt that you can get them to increase the number of social homes if this is your only yardstick. But you'll lose other stuff in the development- it's very extensive, with student accommodation, key worker, London living rent housing, plus all the work building a new shopping centre. The balance seems broadly OK to me.

This definitely won't be abused by people for nefarious ends.

This is what happens when your politics is all about vibes: you don't think things through and end up proposing to make food more expensive.

This is more than likely a loss leader. So the farm and staff are probably not being brilliantly paid, but the shareholders will be swallowing a loss.

It's a reasonable point to say that you want workers and farmers paid better, of course. But you have to allow this makes food more expensive, and have a policy ready to deal with that- benefit rises would be the most obvious.

This was covered by Farming Today around Christmas time, when vegetables were being sold extremely cheaply by the big supermarkets - it is indeed a loss-leader.

Which, if Plankski and his advisors listened to, they would know but no, let's stick to "facts" from social fucking media.

Even Fenland supermarkets, carrots are ridiculously cheap and abundant in the past couple of years. So are used to plug shortages in the vegetable aisles like the post war Eastern bloc.

Boiler wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2026 12:20 am This was covered by Farming Today around Christmas time, when vegetables were being sold extremely cheaply by the big supermarkets - it is indeed a loss-leader.

Which, if Plankski and his advisors listened to, they would know but no, let's stick to "facts" from social fucking media.

The Telegraph shouldn't have put a (justified) summary as if it's a quote, and I hope Polanski complains about that and gets it changed.

But yeah, the site of a bloke pumping out rubbish on social media posing as a defender of truth is a bit nauseating.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 4:44 pm

I really dislike this type of policy and I wasn't pretty surprised to know that both Mussolini and Hitler never took a wage. It opens the doors for funding coming in from elsewhere.

Hitler of course owned rights to his book which every Germany newly wed were given a copy of.

Rupert Lowe donates his salary to local good causes, its small change to him. Its the culture of the moneyed Victorian amatuer, good chaps from the right class don't ask for money to do good things.

Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2026 4:32 pm Rupert Lowe donates his salary to local good causes, its small change to him. Its the culture of the moneyed Victorian amatuer, good chaps from the right class don't ask for money to do good things.

"Great Yarmouth and Caister Refugee Aid
Proudly Sponsored by Rupert Lowe MP"

I may be way off, here, but does the new Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, Green Councillor Julien Pritchard, look very like the villainous Lord Voldemort out of Harry Potter ?

One of those young people hit a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine.

Planksi is just another populist cunt, cast in the same mould as Farage.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:11 pm One of those young people hit a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine.

And then proceeded to tell her she's responsible for Gaza whilst she lay injured.

Yug wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2026 7:36 pm Planksi is just another populist cunt, cast in the same mould as Farage.

Except this particular shit attracts right-on Trots rather than fash.

As a comedian said recently: he attracts Rik from The Young Ones.

Well, well. IPSOS polling.

Zack Polanski: The leader of the Green Party’s ratings continue to fall. 20% have a favourable opinion (-3), 47% unfavourable (+3), giving him a net favourability rating of -27. This is Polanski’s worst net favourability rating since he became leader of the Green party. 25% have a favourable of opinion of the Green party, 43% unfavourable. Negative views towards the Greens have increased since the start of the year, and this is the party’s highest unfavourability rating since the Ipsos Political Pulse started tracking them over five years ago (in February 2021).

Who'd have guessed that tankie politics isn't that popular? Time to do some proper work.

The Greens are being run by the same mentality (if not some of the actual same people) who took the Labour Party from a modest defeat in 2015 to devastation in 2019 and masterminded YourParty's car crash. They care not a fig for electoral popularity because the electorate don't share their views.