Tom Wilson πΊπ¦
@feedthedrummer
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Labour Candidate for Richmond and Northallerton 2024. GMB. Secretary of @yimbylabour. Occasionally witty. π¬π§π³οΈβπ
Joined December 2011
The series started with the worst ever faithful and the worst ever Traitor and ended as a death match between the best ever faithful and the best ever Traitor. Peak TV.
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@feedthedrummer Another shocking stat from the same polling... Of the two in three young people who borrow to cover their housing costs, one in five are using payday loans.
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This is outrageous, and a direct consequence of decades of politicians taking the cowards way out when it comes to the need to build more houses and build to rent. Anyone still doubting the seriousness of this or immediate need to get our cities building again need to wake up.
News: TWO THIRDS of all Londoners between the ages of 25 and 45 are borrowing to cover housing costs.
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Would like more pieces on the lessons from an example of a progressive governing well rather than another one on lessons from a good campaign. Save the latter for three years time.
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"This government has invested Β£39bn in the delivery of social and affordable homes because unlike the Liberal Democrats we as a party are determined to tackle the housing crisis and to Build Baby Build." @AndrewHWestern πππ
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Reform UK: Politicians from the Tory Party spouting the bile of the BNP.
Sarah Pochin MP: βIt drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people.β Caller Stuart in London asks the Reform MP if her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts'. @petercardwell | @SarahForRuncorn
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Great to join the @LondonAssembly Planning and Regeneration Committee today to talk about the need for more housing in London, how to encourage densification, and how to make sure young people and renters aren't shut out of the planning process
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Potentially a massive story this.
Landslide win for pro-unification Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace https://t.co/AeG50A90o3
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All anti-politics movements successful enough will inevitably face this, some may transition to more practical minded management but an awful lot will be shocked by the realities and feel lied to by their own side.
Reform-led Kent County Council has officially had its own Jackie Weaver moment, in a leaked vid to @guardian The council leader mutes another councillor, a few on the call challenge her leadership, and one says βIβve worked my arse off and Iβm still getting a rod up my backsideβ
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Stockport has the second most expensive homes of Greater Manchester's ten boroughs. It is 15 years since they last adopted a Local Plan. They have a 1.77 year housing land supply. And yet this foreword makes it clear they are very, very reluctant to do anything about it.
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Steve Reed understands this and Labour YIMBY understands this. If you don't smash the barriers, you don't build, and if you don't build, communities are forced apart through soaring costs and poor quality and degrading homes and homelessness soars.
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There's no divide between communitarianism and YIMBYism. YIMBYism recognises that mobile workers are part of the community too whose interests aren't being heard. New Towns are a perfect symbol of where the two meet, building communities not just places.
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To connect to voters, politics needs to be rooted in place and community
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π¨ Our pro-growth planning reforms will get Britain building β
New powers to stop councils blocking new homes β
Fast-track reservoirs, building the first in 30 years β
Unlock Β£2bn onshore wind β
Protect housing schemes from court delays
National renewal means more homes, more jobs, and more money back in working peopleβs pockets. But to get there, we need to take on the blockers. We are cutting red tape to get Britain building.
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The Conservatives put barriers to you getting on the housing ladder, held back economic growth and doubled homelessness. This Labour Government will smash down those barriers for you.
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There are many factors that dictate when home buyers decide to buy, but I'm going to politely suggest that anything Kemi Badenoch says isn't one of them.
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