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Nick Ballard retweeted
Great thread on rent controls from our Head Organiser, @_NickBallard📢
Rent controls worked in the UK, it’s time we brought them back for good!
The landlord lobby claim rent controls never work, but that isn't true. We could point to rent controlled Vienna, the world's most liveable city, or the 16 other rent controlled European countries with better housing than us.
But we don't need to. They worked here in the UK! 🧵
When Thatcher scrapped rent controls in '88, housebuilding collapsed and housing costs went through the roof.
Rent control alone wont solve the housing crisis, but it’s a part of the only system that works. A system where we treat houses as homes not investments.
Is it any wonder landlords continue to rent out unfit homes when there is essentially no punishment from the authorities?
Why are so many Tories (inc. ex-Govt ministers) who spent years selling our country down the river, dismantling our services & trying to break our communities being welcomed into Reform with open arms?
Is this 'a break from establishment politics,' or the same old (New) Tories?
It’s funny that landlords are doing sob stories in the media about a 2% increase in property income tax, but they never have any concern about hitting their tenants with huge rent rises
Just overwhelmingly pathetic.
You fill our rivers and seas with sewage, hike up bills, and let infrastructure deteriorate, all while paying out millions to shareholders. Then hire a bodyguard because people actually voice their opposition to this.
Embarrassing.
Nick Ballard retweeted
🚫🪪 Good riddance to the Government's mandatory digital ID scheme!
Not only was this an attack on our civil liberties, putting more power in the hands of this (and future) Governments at the same time as increasing state surveillance and a clampdown on the right to protest, it would also see even more money, power and our most personal data in the hands of the private tech corporations.
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK bbc.in/3NlG8J2
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Nick Ballard retweeted
Reform claim to be a break from the establishment, but they’re largely funded by ex-Tory donors. Most sitting Reform councillors/MPs have jumped ship from the Tories. They’re rats leaving a sinking ship.
These are the same people who have sold our country down the river.
🚨 NEW: All of Reform's 12 councils will raise council tax this year despite pledging not to in campaigns
Some of the planned rises include:
Worcestershire - 10%
Derbyshire - 4.99%
West Northamptonshire - 4.99%
Kent - 3.99%
Staffordshire - 3.99%
[@thetimes]
The same publications that fight against workers striking for better pay are always the ones writing sob stories about wealthy people “struggling” financially🤔
🗣️ 'We felt we had done everything right in life'
Max Griffiths and wife Nicole – both work in the tech sector on salaries of £125,000 and around £100,000 respectively – have fallen victim to the cliff-edge tax that's forcing middle-class families to take desperate measures.
Read their story ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne…
Homelessness isn’t an act of god, it’s the result of policy choices made by those in power. This makes that even clearer.
“London councils are deactivating their protocols to house rough sleepers on the day where a -9°C arctic blast hit the UK.”
This is shameful, and will be a matter of life or death for many. metro.co.uk/2026/01/06/londo… via @MetroUK
