KJK vs Keir Starmer

[Faffertea]

https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker/status/1640976304773234688?cxt=HHwWgIC8rajQ9cUtAAAA

I don’t know if she can win given it’s been a Labour constituency since it was formed (in 1980s) and was held by Frank Dobson and then Keir Starmer and according to data is a ‘progressive’ constituency, average age 41 and good job security. Interestingly I can’t find data on constituency make up by sex.

I’m not sure she’s expecting to win. She knows she can cause an awful lot of disruption though. And I say bring it on!

banning overage clauses just transfers money from landowner to developer. I'm interested in reducing the cost of land - and therefore housing - by stopping the big profits made from it.

I want a way to get land away from developers for more publicly owned land and housing. Builders can still make profits when they build, they shouldnt be able to sit on land and make massive profits from it. We need to increase ATED - Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings -and lower the threshold at which it starts to be charged.

I dont see any reason for a lower CGT on companies than individuals for profits made on property.

banning overage clauses just transfers money from landowner to developer. I'm interested in reducing the cost of land - and therefore housing - by stopping the big profits made from it

Oh yes I guess that’s the issue, but not all land is brought by developers, it is now because they can pay overage. But the little bits of land that are fit for single dwellings only shouldn’t have overage. Not for the ordinary individual self builder.

I used to go out to look at sites sometimes with the Land Buyer (yep he did exactly what his job title says) for a housing company.

If you could fit even just one house on it they were interested. They would buy little parcels over the years and then just sit on them so that when all the large chunks that they can build estates on are gone they've got all these little parcels in reserve.

They'd concentrate on certain areas and then buy all the small parcels in that area.

It infuriated me

Ok that explains a lot. It’s infuriating.

My Dad lives in this constituency. I don't think a lot of people realise that there is a large working class community there that goes back generations. I know that most of them are not taken in by gender ideology so although they may not vote for her, they will want to listen to what she's got to say.

When the self builder sells the property later they make the profit from the land instead of the landowner. Neither should be getting a large profit from it. All land was once communal, you effectively reward theft. Difficult to unravel it now but there is not enough housing being built now and we need a lot more council housing. So councils need land and money to build.

If you try to look at land ownership you get lots of useless stuff about how much the Crown owns or the National Trust, its more difficult to track down who owns land you could put housing on. The government of Qatar owns quite a bit of London, for example, as does the government of Kuwait. They should be taxed more on the profits from it.

When the self builder sells the property later they make the profit from the land instead of the landowner. Neither should be getting a large profit from it. The way I understand it though, the overage is a percentage of the uplift in value. If a self builder has put a house on land that formerly didn’t have a house on it, that’s cost money. Overage increase the cost whether you’re selling it as a developer or living there. The way it works now, favours people with a lot of money. Those with far smaller budgets, people who want to build themselves physically, are shut out of self building because of overage.

I had wondered if your name was a tribute to the 1992 album by British indie band, Midway Still or Arsenal FC related. I’m now leaning towards the latter!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0JHyvkSl4x8

You are correct in thinking its the latter. I can only assume that Midway Still must also have an Arsenal connection!

They must! Although it’s taken me 30 years to notice! 😆

I'd not heard of them until today. I might have to have a listen!

One good thing about my user name is there are hundreds of people with the same user name across social media. so if any TRAs get upset with one of my comments and try to find me elsewhere, they'll have quite a job on their hands!

overage is not standard, it's agreed between buyer and seller. So it may be triggered by a grant of planning permission or by selling what gets built there. It also is not a fixed amount or percentage and would usually be after a deduction for the costs of development.

Individual self-builders may be put off by the concept, that's on them.

😬 I am potentially one of those and when we have enquired it’s been a fixed percentage of the uplift in value, triggered once we get planning permission not when we sell. Are you a self builder?

I've considered self-building in the past - but I'm interested in in how we deal with a housing crisis generally, not in talking about one minor aspect of interest only to a few people.

😬 ok.

I mean don’t reply to me then! Geez

That's interesting - she would probably never have acknowledged that Self ID was also imported from the American left.

I'm in Ireland where some of the journalist bang on about those horrible terfy British influences, it couldn't possibly be that the local women are worried and have a point.
No, it has to be untoward outsiders bringing scary stuff into the village...

I read yesterday that KS accepts that "99.99% of women don't have penises". I want KJK to challenge KS on who that magical, mythical missing percentage is.