The Starver is at it again, fattening landlords at the expense of ordinary people Keir Starmer has killed London mayor Sadiq Khan’s nascent plans to impose controls on exorbitant rents charge…
    • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      You seem to be a Starmer fan who goes around denying that he's just another right wing ghoul. So I don't think your real problem is the website. I think you just don't want this to be true. So to address that directly (the actual point you're trying to make, not the one you made up), here's a news link saying the same thing: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/government-no-plans-whatsoever-sadiq-141519860.html

      Surely you won't just ignore this.

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      And who's the peckerwood who removed this comment for "adding nothing"? Only one of two outcomes, either the mod what did it is a lowkey Sturmer themselves, or they have zero literacy skills, whatsoever.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        I used an emoji to indicate that it seemed like political theater to begin with, just waiting to be denied by the usual political procedures.

        Maybe they never saw Lucy do the football trick before.

  • Mex@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    I think this was pretty expected. I think there are also other levers that could be pulled to help, such as giving renters more rights, that would make being a landlord less apealing and wold help the country as a whole not just London.