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Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew

Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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lmfao

Yuriy Akopov@yakopov.me · 11mo ago

A Tory MP is hiring a "red tape researcher" to fight "sclerotic regulations" obstructing "wealth creation". Two clicks away from that ad, on his website, he boasts about his repeated objection to building houses on a field in his constituency.

Countless Labour voters have told us they are disheartened by the amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Here’s a selection of these voters calling on the Government to not abandon the reforms we so desperately need.

Great to visit No10 today and hear about the government's plans for delivering 1.5m homes a year and speeding up major infrastructure projects ✅🏘️🏗️🚄📈🌹

Proud to be supporting our Budget tonight Protecting frontline services ✅ Making Islington a fairer, safer, greener place to live ✅ Keeping our finances on a secure footing ✅ @islingtonlabour.bsky.social

You might be a pronatalist without even realising it With our economy increasingly stacked against young people, even basic social democratic policies like redistributing wealth and making housing more affordable act as pronatalist in practice

Maybe people could idk move between sectors in response to relative wage changes

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'd love to see a proper analysis of how we're going to find the people to build the third runway at Heathrow, several new reservoirs, 1.5 million houses and various other new infrastructure without mass imigration.

Great to see the leader of the opposition openly supporting mob violence and arson over the rule of law

Britain has never successfully created a white elephant

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2y ago

More than 500 million passenger journeys have been made on the Elizabeth line in its first two and a half years, making it the single busiest railway service in the UK, according to new Transport for London data released today

Me in the New Statesman, making the case for build, build, build

Great to be out talking to people on Hargrave Park Road and Fairbridge Road in support of the fab @jamespotts6.bsky.social 🚪🌹✊