There's a Housing organisation in Cambs that closed down an old peoples home in the middle of a rural village to turn it into short term social lets with 24hr security, simply because they can charge what they like vs the previous 80% cap to local market rental rate.

Nonsense, please unfollow.

He has a huge majority, despite the fall off in votes. He can use it to renovate, rejuvenate and reinvigorate the country, or he can play footsy with the financial industry like Blair did, leaving the iniquities of FPTP in place etc.

Attlee is my yardstick. Starmer pales in comparison.

Aw, bless.

No. That's just the lack of ideas. His actions toward the Left of the Party and general lack of socialism is the lie.

No, he mangled the 2019 election with his 2018 speech and has thrown FBPE under the bus.

In the list of policies it includes "restoring funding" to UNRWA. I don't know where the author finds the gall.

There is some good stuff. Almost impossible for there not to be. Just tinkering on the descent.

Rail done on the cheap, minimal effort. But the way he handled the Haigh situation speaks volumes.

But Royal Mail is owned by a billionaire. When it would have cost only £3.6bn to restore it as a public good.

Yet Thames Water gets over £3bn...

I hate the deceit and the weakness.

What is it that inspires your belief in him?

Indeed. However, I think it was the lying to members in the leadership election (me included and to my face), then the lying about Europe, then the complete lack of any policy remotely to the Left of politics, which would enable any sort of national recovery.

I mean, 6 months in & bereft of ideas:

Weird. Everything I learn about him tells me he's a lying chancer, who breaks pledges and promises to whomever he spoke to prior to the next person he speaks to.

He's a bland sham with no fixed principles, upon whom people placed their hopes and now generally seek to justify their disappointment.

As in many things, I'm on the Left here.

It's a close terms issue. Social democracy seems fine with core services being provided by private contractors. I'm not.

I want some form of UBI, pay ratios in all businesses, extreme upper tax bands, worker board reps and fair profit/ dividend sharing, free at use public services run by state.

Attlee proved otherwise. We don't need to have control over sweet or shoe manufacturing or even vehicles. However, services and monopolies must be operated by the state. Enterprise is welcome, but not exploitation or excessive wealth gathering.

It's a spectrum. Soc Dems are willing to outsource and have private companies providing private services. Hands off corporate controls and the market etc. Neolibs are hardcore Soc Dems.

Dem Socs simply believe in publicly owned services and strong employment laws/regulation of corps.

Truly excellent show. Good decision, Netflix.

Not any more than any other religion. Extremists exist everywhere.