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Thornberry's couch

In this interview Thornberry "radically" praises right to buy and champions a weird useless complicated measure of dorm housing for 20 year olds so they can save up for still unaffordable proper housing https://t.co/TpWuM8PZfA

— Howard Zinn's 10 Million RLB/Burgon Relief Plan (@ZinnTruther) January 24, 2020

By the state of the policy ideas she's putting out I suspect she's effectively given up and just going through the motions now.

love to see the radical results of right to buy when I have neighbour in a landlorded council paying almost double social rent.

council house

just about 90 % of the non-council houses where I live are rich landlord owned, not many cheery stories of young "strivers" getting that first foothold onto the property ladder. Thornberry is a bigger woolly headed numpt than Eddie Mair.

Lmao. This self-serving moron thinks I was a plant.

I literally pretended to be a Tory in every stage of the application process📙. https://t.co/J0fQjqvNiP

— . (@sensiblehuman96) January 24, 2020

how to get on QT

The Labour leadership contender’s idea is a lottery in each council area for 20-somethings who want to live in a subsidised block of flats.

Her plan would involve charging tenants up to half their salary - rather than the exorbitant more than two-thirds many are forced to shell out.

Thornberry says that they would have to move out as soon as they turned 30 but it would give them the time to save up for a deposit.

She believes the scheme would “begin to change the conversation”.

this is proof that gin and co-dydramol is bad for your mental health.

haha my god that is mental

luv2save up money while spending half of my salary on rent

that thornberry proposal in full:

https://pics.me.me/thumb_in-the-hunger-games-2012-katniss-is-so-desperate-for-62228340.png

that sweet dystopia between hunger games and logan's run!

Clearly what Labour needs right now is more Byzantine policies that no one understands and can't be communicated clearly and easily to anyone other than committed policy wonks.

Another problem is if they did actually understand what she is pitching here they'd probably prefer the thin gruel offered by the tories, cos she actually sounds like she's working on a "there's no magic money tree" variety of the stanford prison experiment. It's far cry what was being offered in December.

Thornberry says that they would have to move out as soon as they turned 30 but it would give them the time to save up for a deposit.

reading this again, i'm wondering whether the deposit being referred to is to buy a property or to rent one

it's the latter isn't it

real motherfucking 'help to rent' hours

her idea of "subsidised" is young people paying up to half their wage so they can lol save up for a deposit, for a mortgage on a corrugated shed I think!

but these are the lucky golden ticket winners!

she's got that finger wagging look of someone who loves telling young 'uns they've not had it as tough as she did and it was hard work that got her where she is ...

i can't believe she's a labour politician proposing a fucking lottery for housing. christ on a fucking bike.

you've got admit she's pretty funny though!

broke: paying an unconscionable two-thirds of your wages to keep a roof over your head
woke: paying a meagre half of your wages to keep a roof over your head, as long as the council picks your name out of a tombola

Fucked up thing I never knew til recently was the practice some councils have of allowing people bidding for council housing to see who else is doing so.

wait, what?

I’m sure I read this somewhere relatively recently and it shocked me cos I was thinking how potentially dangerous it is.

anyone bigging up right to buy shouldn't be anywhere near the Labour party. That that is taking to the next level.

well, yeah xp

like how is that even legal?

just when all the talk of gin, chocolate and messy houses made me think Emily Thornberry was actually my people

(that council housing thing is nuts, surely there are rules about not handing out sensitive personal information, like even beyond the dreaded EU-imposed GDPR bla bla)

it's alright bitching but it's either this or taxing the rich and what kind of monster wants to do that?

Simultaneously needing to keep house prices buoyant and make housing more affordable will drive better people than Thornberry up the wall.

RLB and Burgon get the Unite nomination. Is that enough to put them on the ballot?

Don’t think this new RLB video was posted? It’s good

This is my pledge to you 🌹 pic.twitter.com/B6RzsbvexB

— Rebecca Long-Bailey (@RLong_Bailey) January 24, 2020

anybody who first choices Starmer is a cunt basically

sorry if this is the kind of horribleness that drives people away from the thread

I'm hoping the polling is way off or some YouGov skullduggery.. Lol denial being the first stage and all that! One positive could be maybe its better not to live with hope and the constant nagging fear that your future might be living in a tent with Chris Williamson making a doc about you for crank left YouTube!

Is that enough to put them on the ballot?

They also needed to be nominated by at least 5% of Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs), meaning at least 33 CLPs, or at least three party affiliates that consist of at least 5% of affiliate members including at least two trades unions.

that rlb video is........ not it imo

them new green deal jobs dangling off a turbine on a harness 120 ft high suck shit imo!

I like it cos a lot has been put into her supposed lack of personality and being too quiet or whatever, this is her addressing people directly. It’s not as good as her first one.

I hate personality and leadership I'm sorry I am a naive child

no correction they are good things for football managers to have

re: campaign videos i think alexandria ocasio cortez kind of ruined it for everyone

The RLB video is neither good nor bad. What so good/bad about it?

i don't think she has the same relish for soundbites and self-aggrandising bullshit as some pols do like Starmer "I have a track record of leading a large organisation (and sending paupers down over a few hours cash-in-hand work and being a frontman for the human rights abusing Night Courts!)and I'm the fucking shit"

I think she comes across much better at the hustings than these videos.

at the hustings ppl will become more aware that Nandy is a confused racist and Starmer is a bit of a Maybot in the making

it just feels like what anyone would say. the emphasis on green new deal is good but i feel like i've heard "green jobs" for like 10 years from various politicians, some of whom even get elected, and it just feels like..... something that sounds good to say, rather than anything tangible? (not judging rlb herself here - just this video!)

at root i'm probably just reacting to that music

I think it just the usual stock imagery of some fule dangling off a turbine !

we haz a great new green job for you. whoops a slightly redder job now