Keir Starmer's time is up

[Jeff Robinson]

I wonder what it like for Starmer seeing this. The democrats aren't even a social democratic party, but even they see the optics of standing in support of workers on a picket line.

 

[Gramsci]

Five and a half minutes in to this speech he gave when becoming leader he says Jeremy Corbyn is a friend and colleague who led the party through difficult time and energised the party.

Also a section on NHS workers. Unlike Biden ( car workers) he hasn't been seen actually supporting them trying to get decent pay

He really is a toe rag.

Surprised this is still on his website

Keir Starmer - MP for Holborn and St Pancras and Labour Leader

Keir Starmer is a husband, father, and former lawyer who has fought for fairness his whole working life. He is now Labour Party leader.

keirstarmer.com

 

[PTK]

What's in the past is history and shall not be spoken of. Contemporary issues only, thank you

Labour conference rule changes could stop members debating certain issues

NEC approves rule stipulating that only ‘contemporary’ motions can be debated after this year’s event

www.theguardian.com

Blimey.

 

[PTK]

Five and a half minutes in to this speech he gave when becoming leader he says Jeremy Corbyn is a friend and colleague who led the party through difficult time and energised the party.

Also a section on NHS workers. Unlike Biden ( car workers) he hasn't been seen actually supporting them trying to get decent pay

He really is a toe rag.

Surprised this is still on his website

Keir Starmer - MP for Holborn and St Pancras and Labour Leader

Keir Starmer is a husband, father, and former lawyer who has fought for fairness his whole working life. He is now Labour Party leader.

keirstarmer.com

This was the kind of friendship that Brutus had for Julius Caesar.

 

[Lurdan]

Paywalled Inside Housing article:

Labour brands social housing commitment ‘long-term aspiration’ after it does not appear in key policy document

The Labour Party has said its commitment to restoring social housing as the second biggest tenure is now a “long-term aspiration”, after it did not appear in its internal policy framework.

Spoiler: Text of article

29.09.23 7.00 AM BY Stephen Delahunty

The commitment was made last year by then-shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in September 2022.

She told delegates that if the party is elected to government, it will ensure that social housing overtakes the private rented sector as the second largest tenure by building a “new generation of council housing”.

The pledge would have meant that under a Labour government, the country would need to deliver more than 400,000 social homes to make up the deficit.

However, Inside Housing has seen a copy of the party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) document ahead of this year’s conference next month.

The NPF offers Labour a chance to set its stall on policy ahead of a general election and present a manifesto it believes will appeal to voters.

The document does not mention the previous pledge to make social housing the second-largest tenure.

In response, a Labour spokesperson said: “Making social housing the second largest tenure remains our long-term aspiration.

"Labour is committed to delivering an increase in social and affordable homes and we’ll be setting out our plans in more detail as the general election approaches.”

The NPF does refer to putting “social and genuinely affordable housing at the very heart of our plans to jump-start the housebuilding industry”, as stated in June by Ms Nandy at the Housing 2023 conference.

In a shadow cabinet shake-up earlier this month, Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, replaced Ms Nandy as shadow housing secretary.

Councils that do not currently have any housing stock will be “supported to start building homes”, In addition, there will be support for “new co-operative and community led housing provision, including developing adequate tenure".

There is also a commitment to “act decisively” to improve standards across the sector and ensuring leaseholders are protected from the cost of remediating fire safety defects, alongside ending the leasehold system in England and Wales all together.

The NPF points out several areas where the party feels reform will help deliver on its plans, including compulsory purchase, planning and through a repurposing of Homes England.

Shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook alluded to this earlier this month when he told the National Housing Federation Summit in Birmingham that the party would rework the Affordable Homes Programme to go “net positive on social housing numbers”.

Over the past 12 years, the government has delivered 162,000 social rent homes, while 332,000 were sold off or demolished – a net loss of over 14,000 a year.

A total of 7,644 new social rent homes were built last year, while 21,638 were sold off or demolished.

The Labour Party’s policy document also reiterated a previously stated commitment to decrease the number of social homes being rapidly sold off through the Right to Buy without like-for-like new social housing being built to replace them.

In August, the party said it is currently reviewing the higher level of Right to Buy discounts imposed in 2012, but is yet to make a decision on whether to reduce them.

[link if you're feeling lucky]

Inside Housing's outgoing deputy editor Peter Apps x-tweeted:

Hard not feel a bit cynical here. My experience of housing policy suggests that changing something from a target to a 'long term aspiration' is politics-speak for 'we don't know how to achieve it, and we're not really going to try'

 

[Gramsci]

Paywalled Inside Housing article:

Labour brands social housing commitment ‘long-term aspiration’ after it does not appear in key policy document

The Labour Party has said its commitment to restoring social housing as the second biggest tenure is now a “long-term aspiration”, after it did not appear in its internal policy framework.

Spoiler: Text of article

29.09.23 7.00 AM BY Stephen Delahunty

The commitment was made last year by then-shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in September 2022.

She told delegates that if the party is elected to government, it will ensure that social housing overtakes the private rented sector as the second largest tenure by building a “new generation of council housing”.

The pledge would have meant that under a Labour government, the country would need to deliver more than 400,000 social homes to make up the deficit.

However, Inside Housing has seen a copy of the party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) document ahead of this year’s conference next month.

The NPF offers Labour a chance to set its stall on policy ahead of a general election and present a manifesto it believes will appeal to voters.

The document does not mention the previous pledge to make social housing the second-largest tenure.

In response, a Labour spokesperson said: “Making social housing the second largest tenure remains our long-term aspiration.

"Labour is committed to delivering an increase in social and affordable homes and we’ll be setting out our plans in more detail as the general election approaches.”

The NPF does refer to putting “social and genuinely affordable housing at the very heart of our plans to jump-start the housebuilding industry”, as stated in June by Ms Nandy at the Housing 2023 conference.

In a shadow cabinet shake-up earlier this month, Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, replaced Ms Nandy as shadow housing secretary.

Councils that do not currently have any housing stock will be “supported to start building homes”, In addition, there will be support for “new co-operative and community led housing provision, including developing adequate tenure".

There is also a commitment to “act decisively” to improve standards across the sector and ensuring leaseholders are protected from the cost of remediating fire safety defects, alongside ending the leasehold system in England and Wales all together.

The NPF points out several areas where the party feels reform will help deliver on its plans, including compulsory purchase, planning and through a repurposing of Homes England.

Shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook alluded to this earlier this month when he told the National Housing Federation Summit in Birmingham that the party would rework the Affordable Homes Programme to go “net positive on social housing numbers”.

Over the past 12 years, the government has delivered 162,000 social rent homes, while 332,000 were sold off or demolished – a net loss of over 14,000 a year.

A total of 7,644 new social rent homes were built last year, while 21,638 were sold off or demolished.

The Labour Party’s policy document also reiterated a previously stated commitment to decrease the number of social homes being rapidly sold off through the Right to Buy without like-for-like new social housing being built to replace them.

In August, the party said it is currently reviewing the higher level of Right to Buy discounts imposed in 2012, but is yet to make a decision on whether to reduce them.

[link if you're feeling lucky]

Inside Housing's outgoing deputy editor Peter Apps x-tweeted:

At a community meeting while back one of my Cllrs said, in reply to query about housing, said that he had been to meeting where Lisa Nandy had stated Council housing would be built. Council housing would be major part of push by labour government to solve housing crisis.

Last week my local Council Lambeth had another meeting where a piece of land they own is under dispute. They are going to sell it to a developer. Initially the promise was 50 percent social housing. Then it was reduced to 30 percent social housing. Caused a lot of opposition.

Lambeth is run by right of party. They make all the right noises on housing. But when it comes down to implementing it they water it down.

This is how a future national Labour government will act.

As article says Lisa Nandy was going around telling people that the next Labour government would build large amounts of Council housing. It is , like a lot of Starmer stuff, just talk. To be rowed back on when it suits him.

 

[oryx]

Paywalled Inside Housing article:

Labour brands social housing commitment ‘long-term aspiration’ after it does not appear in key policy document

The Labour Party has said its commitment to restoring social housing as the second biggest tenure is now a “long-term aspiration”, after it did not appear in its internal policy framework.

Spoiler: Text of article

29.09.23 7.00 AM BY Stephen Delahunty

The commitment was made last year by then-shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in September 2022.

She told delegates that if the party is elected to government, it will ensure that social housing overtakes the private rented sector as the second largest tenure by building a “new generation of council housing”.

The pledge would have meant that under a Labour government, the country would need to deliver more than 400,000 social homes to make up the deficit.

However, Inside Housing has seen a copy of the party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) document ahead of this year’s conference next month.

The NPF offers Labour a chance to set its stall on policy ahead of a general election and present a manifesto it believes will appeal to voters.

The document does not mention the previous pledge to make social housing the second-largest tenure.

In response, a Labour spokesperson said: “Making social housing the second largest tenure remains our long-term aspiration.

"Labour is committed to delivering an increase in social and affordable homes and we’ll be setting out our plans in more detail as the general election approaches.”

The NPF does refer to putting “social and genuinely affordable housing at the very heart of our plans to jump-start the housebuilding industry”, as stated in June by Ms Nandy at the Housing 2023 conference.

In a shadow cabinet shake-up earlier this month, Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, replaced Ms Nandy as shadow housing secretary.

Councils that do not currently have any housing stock will be “supported to start building homes”, In addition, there will be support for “new co-operative and community led housing provision, including developing adequate tenure".

There is also a commitment to “act decisively” to improve standards across the sector and ensuring leaseholders are protected from the cost of remediating fire safety defects, alongside ending the leasehold system in England and Wales all together.

The NPF points out several areas where the party feels reform will help deliver on its plans, including compulsory purchase, planning and through a repurposing of Homes England.

Shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook alluded to this earlier this month when he told the National Housing Federation Summit in Birmingham that the party would rework the Affordable Homes Programme to go “net positive on social housing numbers”.

Over the past 12 years, the government has delivered 162,000 social rent homes, while 332,000 were sold off or demolished – a net loss of over 14,000 a year.

A total of 7,644 new social rent homes were built last year, while 21,638 were sold off or demolished.

The Labour Party’s policy document also reiterated a previously stated commitment to decrease the number of social homes being rapidly sold off through the Right to Buy without like-for-like new social housing being built to replace them.

In August, the party said it is currently reviewing the higher level of Right to Buy discounts imposed in 2012, but is yet to make a decision on whether to reduce them.

[link if you're feeling lucky]

Inside Housing's outgoing deputy editor Peter Apps x-tweeted:

This just smacks to me of keeping the status quo of minimal truly affordable (i.e. social rent) housing in new developments, with the continuation of 'affordable' rent quotas and shared ownership/building for sale. With the last three being out of the reach of an awful lot of people. Which does nothing to solve the homelessness crisis, and the situation of the poorly and insecurely housed.

And smacks of not wanting to frighten large developers - including the large housing associations who nowadays prioritise development over their landlord role.

 

[Eric Jarvis]

really good to see you posting again hope you're keeping well

Heart failure has me temporarily wheelchair bound, but recovering, and I'm having a lot of fun trying to bring down the establishment.

 

[Calamity1971]

Hoping he gets the reception he deserves at conference, the cunt.

 

[ruffneck23]

Courtesy of cold war Steve

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Caption competition.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

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Caption competition.

Under a Labour government all building workers will be issued with compulsory hard hats, a suit and a tie.

 

[magneze]

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Caption competition.

If I stand here then people won't see your weirdly long arm.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I can see you're desperate for a shit. The portaloos are 10 floors down, then a 5 minute walk, and there's only 2 of them.

 

[PTK]

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Caption competition.

Rayner: “Our latest campaign poster: ‘We will abolish the two-child limit and replace it with a one-child limit.’ That should satisfy both those who want it abolished, and those who think that abolishing it would be unaffordable.”

Starmer: “Err, I think we’ll have to run that past the focus groups.”

 

[A380]

Under a Labour government all building workers will be issued with compulsory hard hats, a suit and a tie.

TBF that’s just a return to a previous age.

 

[DotCommunist]

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Caption competition.

'Look upon my works ye mighty, and despair'

 

[Elpenor]

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Caption competition.

“If you look far in the distance on a clear day you can just about see the 2017 Labour Party manifesto”

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Caption competition.

"there's a pledge over there that you haven't broken yet"

 

[Johnny Vodka]

"there's a pledge over there that you haven't broken yet"

We have a winner!

 

[Dystopiary]

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Oh, they're not booing you, they're shouting "FOR Keir Starmer!"

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I'll dance if you go first.

 

[mojo pixy]

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Caption competition.

Still looking, and now also pointing, to the right

 

[Elpenor]

What a relief to know he is on the side of business

‘A party for all businesses’: how Labour is courting industry

Firms rush to Liverpool conference as party launches City-friendly policies – and secures wealthy donors

www.theguardian.com

 

[teqniq]

 

[two sheds]

What a relief to know he is on the side of business

‘A party for all businesses’: how Labour is courting industry

Firms rush to Liverpool conference as party launches City-friendly policies – and secures wealthy donors

www.theguardian.com

Ken Loach: ‘Keir Starmer is the worst Labour leader there’s ever been’

In a no-holds-barred interview, the iconic filmmaker discusses his new film The Old Oak and the current state of the Labour party

www.dazeddigital.com

What does Loach think about Labour at the moment? “The Labour Party now is setting out to be the party of the establishment, like under Blair. Blair did what big business wanted, and Starmer will do the same. But the situation is now even worse, so the demands of big business are even more aggressive, and Starmer will do what big business wants. That’s his politics. He’s said as much. His team of similarly unprincipled politicians will do the same. Well, they have a principle, and that’s to support big business. They’ll do everything that big business wants.

 

[Pickman's model]

This wind of change is shammer farting in the face of everyone in the country

 

[Chilli.s]

Not a wind of change, more like a tidal wave of self serving twats

 

[GarveyLives]

Presumably they are on their way to celebrate Black History Month outside Leonardo Hotel right now?​

 

[Calamity1971]

Real or AI?