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Angela from Housing

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billysboy · 09/02/2025 12:18

Ainu to think Angela Rayners has been set up to fail on her 1.5m homes target ?
you can barely get planning permission through for a small extension in under 10 weeks let alone 1.5 m new homes
Every month that goes by the shortage compounds
I wonder if Kier has set her up to fail

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Parsley1234 · 09/02/2025 17:03

@GlomOfNit absolutely charming when cause to be not with these complete imbeciles

Charlize43 · 09/02/2025 17:02

Upstartled · 09/02/2025 17:00

Angela from housing is sexist. What you mean is the lying, hypocritical, deputy Prime Minister.

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Charlize43 · 09/02/2025 17:01

Nobody gets their knickers in a twist over 'Two Tier Kier' - which everyone uses.

Double standards much?

Upstartled · 09/02/2025 17:00

Angela from housing is sexist. What you mean is the lying, hypocritical, deputy Prime Minister.

JoyousGreyOrca · 09/02/2025 16:58

And classist

mallorytowers8282 · 09/02/2025 16:57

JimHalpertsWife · 09/02/2025 12:20

Also, she isn't "Angela from Housing" - she's the deputy PM and calling her that nickname is quite misogynistic.

Agree.

mallorytowers8282 · 09/02/2025 16:57

SpanThatWorld · 09/02/2025 12:19

YABU to recycle a snarky little insult used to belittle one woman so that you can belittle another.

Agree.

So disheartened with women tearing other women down.

Total misogyny.

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:54

It's also bad form to try and excuse Andrew Gwynne's appalling behaviour by saying Reform/Tories are worse

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:43

mowmiaow · 09/02/2025 16:41

Consider how many awful MP and member scandals the tories and reform were happy to ignore. WAY more corrupt and dodgy.

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Yes true. I'm not sure any of them are more 'corrupt and dodgy' than Jas Athwal though. He's on another level and still an MP.

GlomOfNit · 09/02/2025 16:42

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It's not being polite though, is it? What it is, is a load of misogynistic bollocks. Someone blow a dog whistle in the direction of whatever stone you usually hang out beneath, did they?

mowmiaow · 09/02/2025 16:41

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:37

I agree, shame he didn't do the same with Jas Athwal don't you think?

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Consider how many awful MP and member scandals the tories and reform were happy to ignore. WAY more corrupt and dodgy.

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:37

bemoresloth · 09/02/2025 16:35

Swift action was taken by Starmer, good to see no MPs were sent out to defend the indefensible

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I agree, shame he didn't do the same with Jas Athwal don't you think?

SlugoftheLimberlost · 09/02/2025 16:36

riceuten · 09/02/2025 15:38

I used to work in housing a building new housing is one of those things - unless you are rabidly anti-immigration - that’s seen as necessary, but nowhere near me, please. The planning system is already heavily bent in favour of developers, the issue is getting the latter to cough up. They’d much rather someone else take the risk and they scrape off the profits

Absolutely.
It's ironic that posters are criticising the influence of unions whilst it's the big firms that are in control of housing policy (as well as a lot of other government policy). I would much prefer that organisations representing ordinary working people are having their say rather than big developers that only care about profits for their shareholders and huge payouts to their executives.
A few years back a very large brownfield site near me was designated as a housing development in the local authority's development plan. There would have been a primary school and a medical centre included. Good transport links and less impact on my small town than other proposals. It didn't happen. Developers don't like brownfield sites. Instead, acres of the surrounding green fields have been built on. Before anyone says, developers need to make a profit, Have a look at the profits that housing firms make. The top three housebuilders produced profit margins of between 17 and 32% a year. They are the ones calling the shots.

bemoresloth · 09/02/2025 16:35

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:27

Labour are doing a great job of trashing themselves don't you think? Have you seen the latest sacking?

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Swift action was taken by Starmer, good to see no MPs were sent out to defend the indefensible

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 09/02/2025 16:33

She's set herself up really. I wouldn't be saying anything in her position without proper research.
Let's me honest she's thick as ....
And she's a liar, didn't pay capital gains on second home she sold as she was living there ... but she wasn't.
Anyway, targets are unachievable, all the trade workers have either gone or are going.

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:33

bemoresloth · 09/02/2025 16:31

Julian Jessop from the Tufton Street IEA?

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Yes! Would you prefer something from the Guardian?

bemoresloth · 09/02/2025 16:31

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:22

https://www.cityam.com/rachel-reeves-or-liz-truss-who-really-crashed-the-economy/

You may find this helpful

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Julian Jessop from the Tufton Street IEA?

GlomOfNit · 09/02/2025 16:28

Parsley1234 · 09/02/2025 12:41

She’s on her way out she’s deliberately been kept out of the public eye as she’s a train wreck. Rayner was put in the front bench to appease the unions she’s uneducated and chippy. Rachel from accounts Bridget from the block Two Tier Keir millipede they’re all dreadful human beings hell bent on ruining this country

What a charmer YOU are, to be sure!

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:27

mowmiaow · 09/02/2025 16:18

MN seems to be flooded with a load of rightwing propaganda at the moment. Anything to trash labour and push the dodgy right wing narrative.

Labour are doing a great job of trashing themselves don't you think? Have you seen the latest sacking?

TheNuthatch · 09/02/2025 16:26

It's also misogynistic to compare Reeves and Truss. Reeves is the Chancellor, Truss was the Prime Minister.
Surely is should be Truss V Starmer, or Kwarteng V Reeves?
Do we just prefer to blame the woman?

mowmiaow · 09/02/2025 16:18

MN seems to be flooded with a load of rightwing propaganda at the moment. Anything to trash labour and push the dodgy right wing narrative.

mowmiaow · 09/02/2025 16:17

bemoresloth · 09/02/2025 16:11

Why has the MSM not reported that Reeves has crashed the economy?

They have gone very quiet instead.

Your lettuce must have wilted by now

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Happyher · 09/02/2025 16:11

Johnson from the Party Planner Section also had a target of 300,000 homes to be built along with the 40 new hospitals and put bugger all in place to achieve this. At least Raynor is legislating the changes that are needed in order to speed up the process. This is a Labour ambition not a Tory fairy tale

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