I don’t know about Furball but I have seven on my lawn.
None. Posties no longer come to my door. Might be the barbed wire. Might be no post. Who knows?
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On other matters, which candidate is going to stop the day when the last working class family with three children is forced to move out of central London?
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“What I’ve done along with 47 other colleagues is voted against the Government’s welfare bill because of the effects it will have on children of large families because of the effect of the benefit cap, particularly on high rent inner-city areas,” he said.
“In the absence of rent control all that’s happening in central London is that families who access benefits to pay their rent cannot get enough money to pay their rent
“They’re forced to move away and it’s leading to a social cleansing of much of central London. If we can’t control rents then the very least we can do is keep families together.”
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Best timw to do it. Gives them 4 years and 10 months before the next election. Tax credits are a nonsense, we should not be in a position where the tax payer has to top-up earnings for the low paid.
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I work in Islington, in the constituency Corbyn covers.
i work with families who are considered ‘troubled’. Many want to leave London for safe places due to the gang activity here. But also due to the costs. They won’t be able to afford the rent soon. Most of the families on my caseload do work but still cannot afford their rent. If this continues only the super rich will be able to buy here. Something does need to be done and I am glad someone is saying something about it.
Had an email from my union today only candidate they’re not backing - Kendall.
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They’ve just had a hustings in Warrington. If anyone is interested in the responses, they are here.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/live-labour-leadership-hustings-featuring-9726618
I’ve just read Charlotte Church’s blog for the first time. Didn’t know she was such a decent writer.
It seems rather telling that the mainstream establishment is getting all shrill and scurrilous about Jeremy Corbyn. After the poll that said Corbyn would win the Labour leadership 6 points ahead of Andy Burnham, centrists, Blairites and Blairs fell over each other to slander the man himself, as unelectable, and then to scoff at his supporters. S t. Tony of Baghdad, lobbyist to the shadows, left many reeling with indignation when he spoke to the think tank Progress on Wednesday. Let us not forget that there is a wide consensus that this man should be tried for war crimes, and yet he has the gall to tell others to get “a heart transplant”?! He appeared from his coffin, looking like a wax puppet from an American remake of a Japanese horror film, and condescended to the nation with talk of winning “from the centre” and the dangers of comfort blankets. The sheep-dog yapped and the flock bolted. Margaret Beckett described herself as a “moron” for supporting Corbyn’s candidacy. Yvette Cooper said she would never serve in a shadow cabinet lead by Corbyn. John McTernan suggested that two candidates should drop out of the race to create an “anyone-but-Corbyn” campaign. The barks and bleats have become deafening.
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Is that meant to be an ironic location that for the Left Unity spokesman. He’s speaking in Adam and Eve Mews in Kensington, where you won’t get much change from £5 million.
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I dunno. The party mailouts don’t give an indication as to whether irony is included.
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Fuck sakes. Liz Kendall can’t even answer the easy ones.
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Superb piece by Frankie Boyle:-
Labour is now so passive, it might as well be led by an out-of-office email
This bit is choice:-
An antsy liberal press pushes the idea of one of the leadership candidacy androids being able to court Tory voters, despite seeming completely unable to convince their own, and frets that Jeremy Corbyn will lead Labour to the left and alienate public opinion. From where they are at the moment John Major could lead them to the left, and Corbyn’s policies are actually fairly popular with the public. It’s worth remembering that in the press, public opinion is often used interchangeably with media opinion, as if the public was somehow much the same as a group of radically rightwing billionaire sociopaths.
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How come you’re so familiar with Adam and Eve Mews, Furball? You wouldn’t have been spending time at the nearby Daily Mail HQ by any chance?
That’s either good googling or you know your London.
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The latter. I had the misfortune of working there for a couple of years in the early 90s.
Yep, Kensington is hell.
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Corbyn opens up a 22 point lead, according to the Mirror.
"The growing buzz around Mr Corbyn, 66, has now seen him emerge as an unlikely sex symbol.
Women on the Mumsnet website revealed they find him “very sexy” and “attractive in a world-weary old sea dog sort of way”.
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