“Well, actually if you look at what I said back then, I didn’t specify *owner-occupiers*.”
Honestly would be a smart long term move, you’d get a lotta voter loyalty from putting everyone in homes and it’d significantly boost the economy long term as rents now are spent on products instead thus putting more cash flow into the uk economy
Dear Mr. Starmer,
Call me crazy, but this idea that everyone should buy a home is just wrong.
The UK lacks quality public housing and strong tenant rights.
Housing shouldn’t be a financial product to store value for foreign oligarchs. Thousands of buildings in London are currently empty. They are owned by shell companies with fake directors. Housing also shouldn’t be a financial product for financiers to extract income with little risk.
Many blocks in Eastern-Europe are actually nice places to live.
They are safe, have parks, community groups, small shops.
Everyone serving in the houses of parliament does own their own home.
Honestly good. I have to admit there are a few areas that that make me weary of his leadership, but it sounds like he’s on a good streak here.
Fantastic, I cannot wait to see the Town and County Planning Act effectively abolished, and a liberal zoning model bought in its place, as recommended by the Planning White Paper
More bollocks. Absolutely no plan to go with these empty words. Disregard the guff.
If rents were reasonable and tenants rights were better, I wouldn’t be particularly interested in owning a home. I want to hear more about Labour’s strategy to increase the availability of social housing and doing something about profiteering landlords.
Personally I would want Labour to be the party of affordable social housing rather than stoking the fires of prices, but I guess that’s a little be too centre/left of centre for his vision of the UK.
Sounds sensible.
Home ownership is something that has long been aspirational for British people – will be popular among the young (struggling to see how they will be able to afford a home) etc.
And home ownership isn’t just a roof over your head and not having to deal with landlord / move constantly. It’s having some control over the costs, it’s accumulating savings for the future, it’s having somewhere to live in retirement (and so a better standard of living), it’s feeling able to have a family… the list goes on.
The NIMBYs won’t like it much… let’s see how it’s positioned by the press.
Labour have no idea how to fix society problems anymore than the Tories do.
They’re all the same. Just a bunch of blaggers more interested in their side jobs.
He needs to get building more homes, including those at social rents an affordable house prices, as well as doing more to curb landlords buying up masses of properties, and in limiting the number of AirBnBs/short-term lets in a given area. It’s a great statement but it is going to be complicated to deliver. Young people fell for Nick Clegg’s promise on tuition fees are have not forgot that, those same young people won’t forgive Labour if they fail to honour that statement.
Where the UK public can own as many houses as they want!
Kier needs to drum up some seriously smart and radical ideas.
Home ownership is fine but what will that looking like? Where is he building new homes? What are these homes going to look like?
What are his ideas on making as many homes energy independent?
What are his ideas on modernising education and apprenticeships?
What are his ideas on improving the transport network?
What are his plans on things like broadband for all?
How will he protect and improve the nhs?
And above all else, what are his climate policies and how will he enforce them?
It can’t be that hard to drum up a decent manifesto that could actually elevate this country in the future
Invest in building council houses for those that don’t want to buy or can’t buy and charge a reasonable rent. Then charge extortionate rates for those that own a second home and landlords which in turn will force them to sell up which will free up houses for people that do want to buy, then every 20 years or so sell off a stock of council houses (which will have increased in price) and use the funds to build more. Of course they won’t do that as most politicians own a second home 🤷
Google, define “home-owner”
Someone who owns one or more houses.
Absolutely, genuinely bizarre to see people criticizing this. Is this not completely and utterly innocuous? Homeownership is a good thing! It’s clearly a problem that it’s so low currently! Why *shouldn’t* he commit to trying to fix this? The current incumbents have hardly done a good job, and it’s a very serious problem.
Home ownership for everyone? Or just a small number of people owning many homes? Its very silly of me to even ask, we all know the answer.
Well you wanted:
– to increase income tax for the top five per cent of earners
– to abolish Universal Credit and university tuition fees
– to introduce a Clean Air Act to tackle pollution
– to have ‘no more illegal wars’ and review all UK arms sales
– to support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water
– to ‘defend free movement as we leave the EU’
– to work ‘shoulder to shoulder with trade unions to stand up for working people’
– to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber
– to ‘pull down obstacles that limit opportunities and talent’
– robust action to maintain Labour’s links with unions
when you were campaigning to become leader didn’t you Keir? And look what happened there you fucking charlatan, you jibbed the lot off due to the effects of covid and the country being a different place. Fuck right off with your hollow pledges they you don’t ever follow through on. Nothing but a Tory lite leader.
With the way some people react to literally anything Starmer or Labour does that isn’t XX brand of a left-leaning party* you’d think they were absolutely fine with tanking the chance to ditch the people who have just skull fucked this nation for the last 13 years.
I am a firm believer that this man is actually a neo conservative in all but name.
Even If I remove that thought for objectivity, I do not see how could I even trust him after he decided not to follow his last 10 pledges and not go after the First past the post law.
I live in Wembley Park, and let me tell you, there are plenty of new, freshly built flats available. But they’re “investments” and are sitting empty all year long. Just slow marinating until they’ve doubled or tripled their worth.
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Labour would have to come down hard on home occupancy to give everybody a fair chance…
And if the establishment media decide they don’t like that then he’ll ‘clarify’ what he meant in a couple of weeks. This man has no principles except catering to the establishment.
My mums selling her house and I did the viewing with the agent as she was busy. The property is in Bicester where loads of housing estates have been built over the last 10 years or so.
Anyways afterwards he pretty much bragged how they’ve sold 26 properties this year alone all to foreigner investors looking to turn them into HMO to rent.
My stomach sank when he was explaining how all these houses will be put on rent per room for maximum profit.
If they want to sort housing first thing it to ban all foreign and private firms buying housing over a certain price. The “luxury flats” they flog for millions they can have. But a normal 3 bed house in middle of fuck no where Oxfordshire shouldn’t ever be allowed.
Labour should be the party of unionising, nationalising and debt reduction. Home ownership is a by-product of fixing the real issues, it shouldn’t be your focus.
I mean, it was the Tories that let all the social housing to be sold off. Oh, that did not work did it‽ How about stop chasing the Tory ideals.
Maybe build some fucking council housing and put a big tax on empty properties then?
No, more neoliberal bullshit, same as always?
Thought so. Fuck off Keith.
He said what people wanted to hear to become leader and now he’s doing the same to become pm. I don’t believe him, not a jot.
I’m only voting Labour because of Angela Rayner. She can move in with me anytime
I don’t trust these politicians bro 😭 I have to see to believe but yes this is a good thing in general
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I can imagine it a few years from now:
“Well, actually if you look at what I said back then, I didn’t specify *owner-occupiers*.”
Honestly would be a smart long term move, you’d get a lotta voter loyalty from putting everyone in homes and it’d significantly boost the economy long term as rents now are spent on products instead thus putting more cash flow into the uk economy
Dear Mr. Starmer,
Call me crazy, but this idea that everyone should buy a home is just wrong.
The UK lacks quality public housing and strong tenant rights.
Housing shouldn’t be a financial product to store value for foreign oligarchs. Thousands of buildings in London are currently empty. They are owned by shell companies with fake directors. Housing also shouldn’t be a financial product for financiers to extract income with little risk.
Many blocks in Eastern-Europe are actually nice places to live.
They are safe, have parks, community groups, small shops.
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/typical-socialist-block-flats-poland-east-europe-view-fr-above-74811312.jpg
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-99f27d29ccccc4900d6bdf7da3f30ec1-lq
I heard this before…
No mr speaker it was not a lie.
Everyone serving in the houses of parliament does own their own home.
Honestly good. I have to admit there are a few areas that that make me weary of his leadership, but it sounds like he’s on a good streak here.
Fantastic, I cannot wait to see the Town and County Planning Act effectively abolished, and a liberal zoning model bought in its place, as recommended by the Planning White Paper
More bollocks. Absolutely no plan to go with these empty words. Disregard the guff.
If rents were reasonable and tenants rights were better, I wouldn’t be particularly interested in owning a home. I want to hear more about Labour’s strategy to increase the availability of social housing and doing something about profiteering landlords.
Personally I would want Labour to be the party of affordable social housing rather than stoking the fires of prices, but I guess that’s a little be too centre/left of centre for his vision of the UK.
Sounds sensible.
Home ownership is something that has long been aspirational for British people – will be popular among the young (struggling to see how they will be able to afford a home) etc.
And home ownership isn’t just a roof over your head and not having to deal with landlord / move constantly. It’s having some control over the costs, it’s accumulating savings for the future, it’s having somewhere to live in retirement (and so a better standard of living), it’s feeling able to have a family… the list goes on.
The NIMBYs won’t like it much… let’s see how it’s positioned by the press.
Labour have no idea how to fix society problems anymore than the Tories do.
They’re all the same. Just a bunch of blaggers more interested in their side jobs.
He needs to get building more homes, including those at social rents an affordable house prices, as well as doing more to curb landlords buying up masses of properties, and in limiting the number of AirBnBs/short-term lets in a given area. It’s a great statement but it is going to be complicated to deliver. Young people fell for Nick Clegg’s promise on tuition fees are have not forgot that, those same young people won’t forgive Labour if they fail to honour that statement.
Where the UK public can own as many houses as they want!
Kier needs to drum up some seriously smart and radical ideas.
Home ownership is fine but what will that looking like? Where is he building new homes? What are these homes going to look like?
What are his ideas on making as many homes energy independent?
What are his ideas on modernising education and apprenticeships?
What are his ideas on improving the transport network?
What are his plans on things like broadband for all?
How will he protect and improve the nhs?
And above all else, what are his climate policies and how will he enforce them?
It can’t be that hard to drum up a decent manifesto that could actually elevate this country in the future
Invest in building council houses for those that don’t want to buy or can’t buy and charge a reasonable rent. Then charge extortionate rates for those that own a second home and landlords which in turn will force them to sell up which will free up houses for people that do want to buy, then every 20 years or so sell off a stock of council houses (which will have increased in price) and use the funds to build more. Of course they won’t do that as most politicians own a second home 🤷
Google, define “home-owner”
Someone who owns one or more houses.
Absolutely, genuinely bizarre to see people criticizing this. Is this not completely and utterly innocuous? Homeownership is a good thing! It’s clearly a problem that it’s so low currently! Why *shouldn’t* he commit to trying to fix this? The current incumbents have hardly done a good job, and it’s a very serious problem.
Home ownership for everyone? Or just a small number of people owning many homes? Its very silly of me to even ask, we all know the answer.
Well you wanted:
– to increase income tax for the top five per cent of earners
– to abolish Universal Credit and university tuition fees
– to introduce a Clean Air Act to tackle pollution
– to have ‘no more illegal wars’ and review all UK arms sales
– to support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water
– to ‘defend free movement as we leave the EU’
– to work ‘shoulder to shoulder with trade unions to stand up for working people’
– to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber
– to ‘pull down obstacles that limit opportunities and talent’
– robust action to maintain Labour’s links with unions
when you were campaigning to become leader didn’t you Keir? And look what happened there you fucking charlatan, you jibbed the lot off due to the effects of covid and the country being a different place. Fuck right off with your hollow pledges they you don’t ever follow through on. Nothing but a Tory lite leader.
With the way some people react to literally anything Starmer or Labour does that isn’t XX brand of a left-leaning party* you’d think they were absolutely fine with tanking the chance to ditch the people who have just skull fucked this nation for the last 13 years.
I am a firm believer that this man is actually a neo conservative in all but name.
Even If I remove that thought for objectivity, I do not see how could I even trust him after he decided not to follow his last 10 pledges and not go after the First past the post law.
I live in Wembley Park, and let me tell you, there are plenty of new, freshly built flats available. But they’re “investments” and are sitting empty all year long. Just slow marinating until they’ve doubled or tripled their worth.
​
Labour would have to come down hard on home occupancy to give everybody a fair chance…
And if the establishment media decide they don’t like that then he’ll ‘clarify’ what he meant in a couple of weeks. This man has no principles except catering to the establishment.
My mums selling her house and I did the viewing with the agent as she was busy. The property is in Bicester where loads of housing estates have been built over the last 10 years or so.
Anyways afterwards he pretty much bragged how they’ve sold 26 properties this year alone all to foreigner investors looking to turn them into HMO to rent.
My stomach sank when he was explaining how all these houses will be put on rent per room for maximum profit.
If they want to sort housing first thing it to ban all foreign and private firms buying housing over a certain price. The “luxury flats” they flog for millions they can have. But a normal 3 bed house in middle of fuck no where Oxfordshire shouldn’t ever be allowed.
Labour should be the party of unionising, nationalising and debt reduction. Home ownership is a by-product of fixing the real issues, it shouldn’t be your focus.
I mean, it was the Tories that let all the social housing to be sold off. Oh, that did not work did it‽ How about stop chasing the Tory ideals.
Maybe build some fucking council housing and put a big tax on empty properties then?
No, more neoliberal bullshit, same as always?
Thought so. Fuck off Keith.
He said what people wanted to hear to become leader and now he’s doing the same to become pm. I don’t believe him, not a jot.
I’m only voting Labour because of Angela Rayner. She can move in with me anytime
I don’t trust these politicians bro 😭 I have to see to believe but yes this is a good thing in general