[Tubby Isaacs]

Good suggestion. This channel is a bit of a niche interest of mine. Estate agent who covers Jaywick and the wider area. Unlike the poverty porn you usually get with Jaywick, they're trying to show it at its best, hard though it is with some of the jerry built properties they're selling. You can only admire the people who've been living in them who've made them homely. Look out for anywhere in Jaywick Sands with an upstairs. Ten to one, the stairs will look completely wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/@sheensestateagentsessex

[The Weeping Angel]

There are a fair few people I've seen hoping that Reeves got pushed as a new chancellor would come in, and they'd start with a clean slate and we could all the nice things that they want.

[Youngian]

Good suggestion. This channel is a bit of a niche interest of mine. Estate agent who covers Jaywick and the wider area. Unlike the poverty porn you usually get with Jaywick, they're trying to show it at its best, hard though it is with some of the jerry built properties they're selling. You can only admire the people who've been living in them who've made them homely. Look out for anywhere in Jaywick Sands with an upstairs. Ten to one, the stairs will look completely wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/@sheensestateagentsessex

Its more welcoming than Clacton. Jaywick has a beach that juts out so you can see sunrises and sunsets. In the near future the sea front will be prime real estate. Have a feeling many of the locals like it the way it is, its certainly quirky.

[The Weeping Angel]

I saw on the Guardian Live Blog that the Reeves will stop short of abolishing the two child cap in full.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

In a way it makes sense to means test it. However...

[Tubby Isaacs]

This isn't the regular child benefit thing- that still exists for all children. It's the tax credit element of universal credit.

[The Weeping Angel]

Ian Dunt has thoughts.

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world- ... tarmer-2fd

This failure extends to the things which the government has done well. On Monday, the Renters Rights Act became law. This is a genuinely good bit of legislation, which protects people from no-fault evictions. No-one knows it exists. On Tuesday, the government went into a stand-off with the Lords to defend the employment rights bill, which provides protection on zero-hours contracts and unfair dismissal. It’s a good bit of law. No-one knows it exists. On Wednesday, climate change secretary Ed Miliband announced that the government was going “all in” on clean energy and unveiled an impressive new climate action plan. No-one knows it exists. In fact, whenever No.10 ‘sources’ comment on Miliband, by far the government’s most effective minister, it is to disparage him because trying to save the earth is apparently some kind of pinko shit.

It’s a communications shitshow. An abysmal failure. And it’s no use saying the press are hostile - of course they are. You’re a Labour government. Governing as Labour is playing on hard mode. A successful Labour communication strategy is defined by the fact that it overcomes these challenges.

Again, this is Starmer’s fault. He decided on the operation and who is involved in it. But it is not his direct culpability. It can be fixed without changing him