The Green Man

[Odds]

In the most recent YouGov poll, the Greens are still four points behind Labour. But that’s down from 12 points in August, just before Polanski was elected, and other polls have put them almost at parity. If both parties stick to their current trajectories – Labour drowning in pre-budget gloom and recriminations and the Greens surfing an optimistic wave of voters looking for a British equivalent to New York’s upbeat new socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani – then the psychologically important crossover point could be only weeks away. Though polls are only ever a snapshot of a moment in time, revealing very little about the results of a general election that could still be four years away, that would nonetheless be a seismic moment - according to Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian today.

According to analysis by the PR consultancy Be Broadcast, he got many more broadcast mentions than the Liberal Democrats’ Ed Davey and almost as many as the Tories’ Kemi Badenoch between 1 September and 20 October: perhaps more surprisingly, the Greens also racked up the most positive, solution-focused coverage

Well, the longest journey begins with a single step and the jolly Greens have made giant strides since the start of the year when they polled at 8%. The old guard are struggling to keep up within the new. fast changing political landscape.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I think he's pro giving tenants the right to buy their rental property, whether the landlord wants to sell or not, and to be offered at below market value.

So he can do one as far as I'm concerned. And, given he wants to be our PM, he should consider getting his teeth missing smile fixed!

 

[Andydevon]

Does this green revolution include making women's breasts grow just by thinking about it?

 

[Andydevon]

Another Green party- deputy leader no less. Is there a closed season where you shouldn't take the **** out of the Green Party?

Green deputy leader complains about asylum seekers in her local area

In a recent letter to the Home Office, Rachel Millward complained about Government plans to temporarily use a military site in East Sussex as asylum accommodation.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Odds]

Does this green revolution include making women's breasts grow just by thinking about it?

I hope so, otherwise my annual subscription will come under review.

 

[Odds]

I think he's pro giving tenants the right to buy their rental property, whether the landlord wants to sell or not, and to be offered at below market value.

Under the terms of their new policy, the Greens would put more regulation and taxes on private rentals to make it difficult for landlords to make a profit, while boosting housebuilding by councils. It would use existing Green policies such as imposing rent controls, ending buy-to-let mortgages and giving councils the 'right to buy' a rental property when it is sold at a discounted price. They would also set up a state-owned housing manufacturer "to mass produce high quality mass council housing for local authorities".

Sounds like a policy for the many, not the few.

So he can do one as far as I'm concerned. And, given he wants to be our PM, he should consider getting his teeth missing smile fixed!

Workin' on it.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Under the terms of their new policy, the Greens would put more regulation and taxes on private rentals to make it difficult for landlords to make a profit, while boosting housebuilding by councils. It would use existing Green policies such as imposing rent controls, ending buy-to-let mortgages and giving councils the 'right to buy' a rental property when it is sold at a discounted price. They would also set up a state-owned housing manufacturer "to mass produce high quality mass council housing for local authorities".

Sounds like a policy for the many, not the few.


Workin' on it.

When I see bits like this ...

and giving councils the 'right to buy' a rental property when it is sold at a discounted price.

... it gets my hackles up. I wonder how stuff like that would work legally. Property valued at £150k but the council can do a compulsory purchase for what, £120k, less?

Mind you, I think the SNP discussed it a few years back up here but it never went anywhere.

 

[Odds]

When I see bits like this ...

and giving councils the 'right to buy' a rental property when it is sold at a discounted price.

... it gets my hackles up. I wonder how stuff like that would work legally. Property valued at £150k but the council can do a compulsory purchase for what, £120k, less?

Mind you, I think the SNP discussed it a few years back up here but it never went anywhere.

Yeah, about that...

Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost £200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis. In its report into the sale of millions of council homes to their tenants at steep discounts since 1980, the Common Wealth thinktank said the policy had fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality. Describing it as one of the “largest giveaways in UK history”, it said the sale of 1.9m council homes in England had contributed to a situation where one in six private tenants in England now rents a former local authority home.

Chris Hayes, the thinktank’s chief economist, said: “The severe financial straits facing councils should be seen in the context of a decades-long assault on local government, in which right to buy was a central pillar, denying councils discretion over how best to use assets that they had built.

“Now those assets are in dire shortage and councils still bear the heightened cost of seeing people through the housing crisis.”

Many of the properties are now rented out, often to tenants on housing benefit at a cost to local authorities of more than £20bn year, while councils have lacked funding to replace the homes sold.

Although Labour have allocated £40bn of Social and affordable homes in the next ten years they've drastically cut planning rules to support private sector housebuilding, which strikes me as giving with one hand and smacking people across the face with the other. The Wombles say "it’s time to end Right to Buy, urgently reinvest in secure, affordable social housing that is fit for the future, and guarantee stability and opportunity for families across the UK.”