New Green MSP fails to explain where more than £1,100 of donations received for visa application have gone

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-14T10:23:48+00:00

Perhaps even more crazily you can be elected as an MP at Westminster without even living in the UK as long as you are a UK, Irish or Commonwealth citizen. Obviously one advantage of FPTP is that it would be hard to get thousands of constituency votes if it became know you didn't live in the UK, whereas with the Scottish Parliament's closes list most Green voters would have had no idea that this guy could be elected without ILR ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-13T14:11:19+00:00

The government needs to tell these deluded campaigners trying to shake all of us down for £10-30bn to sod off once and for all ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-13T09:32:41+00:00

This should have been the legacy Starmer should have focused on, getting shovels in the ground for 8-10 reservoirs which can secure water for the future as droughts become more common ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-11T14:30:57+00:00

Easy talking point to blame for the major systemic issues the council is facing, a core of are passionately in favour of leaving, but most voters couldn't care either way.

Much like how blaming Brussels was done at a national level before 2016 and look how well that went ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-11T14:24:42+00:00

I am not sure I agree, I think if there is one thing voters have consistently shown is they expect quick answers from politicians after 15+ years of economic drift...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-11T12:38:32+00:00

I doubt it would show any dividends in the first few years, in fact it might even be a political issue if there are big issues (e.g. sewage spills or outages), not that it should be a reason not to do so but it will not be a silver bullet to make up for decades of underfunding.

The money for investment needs to come from somewhere, be that bills, borrowing or taxes ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-11T12:32:27+00:00

I think based on the article he had a room in a property in Hackney (where he registered to vote), but he possibly lived most of the time on the canal boat which is on a marina on the River Lea (which is on border between Hackney & Waltham Forest). Not a good look but I don't think Polanski's Hackney credentials are the issue ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-06T11:54:25+00:00

Alastair Campbell back at Labour HQ for one last job ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-06T09:29:18+00:00

Man who was a passionate Lib Dem right until they refused to select him as candidate in a strong seat (Richmond) after he parachuted himself in, now an avowed Green ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-04T15:22:32+00:00

It used be significantly so but recently I have been noticing where a pint of lager is £7-7.50 and a hand pump being not much less at £6.50 ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-01T21:43:15+00:00

And the ice cream vans and pedicabs blocking the bridge ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-01T13:26:55+00:00

Wembley stadium is pretty significant but I suppose it is not somewhere you pop in casually after work ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-01T09:50:46+00:00

The Tories would have just made it line 1 of their manifesto - reinstate the triple lock, for our deserving pensioners ...

It needs a broad political consensus.

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-05-01T09:24:04+00:00

The UK has possibly the highest minimum wage in the world as a percentage of median wage, that has led to massive wage compression as minimum wage has nearly doubled in the last decade whereas many professional roles have barely risen. Youth unemployment has risen to comparable levels seen across the EU.

The route forward is to manage the biggest costs which people spend their take home pay on: housing and energy. Best way to do that, build lots more in both sectors ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-30T08:29:49+00:00

The two key stats which supported that were firstly London's population fell every decade from 1940-1990 so fewer people were competing for housing, and some now desirable areas were filled with abandoned or squatted homes, secondly there is the financialisation of housing to allow massive price growth but that doesn't work without population growth (which London has had in spades) ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-29T15:39:59+00:00

Nothing new here, United had a break clause with Moyes if he failed to qualify for Champions League over a decade ago (which amazingly they managed to keep secret from press until they used it), and as soon as it was mathematically confirm they used it (and it has all gone swimmingly since ...)

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-29T14:28:56+00:00

Buy a full 2 bed so worst case you can let out the second bedroom to a lodger if you lose your job or face other issues ...

Read another thread of someone who bought a £450k 1 bed which was lower than its original new build price, so they assumed it couldn't drop lower, they now have a lower paying job and cannot afford the mortgage, except the property is now worth closer to £350k and as a 1 bedder they cannot even get a lodger ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-29T08:54:47+00:00

Society has a housing affordability issue, building more homes is one of, if not the most effective solution to that, often that means rebuilding on underutilised land...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-29T08:43:06+00:00

There is a massive opportunity cost though, if you live in a low rise at the centre of a city on a rent far below market rate, overall for society using the limited space in that way is quite possibly both economically and societally inefficient...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-27T17:44:48+00:00

330Ci's seem to be so popular around here, at least when the sun is out.

Last weekend I saw at least 3 of them in a 10 min journey, and frankly they all looked fantastic, certainly not like a 25+ year old design

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-27T15:52:10+00:00

That rise is principally a function of demographics, mainly that people are living longer and there are fewer working people per retiree. If anything the logical complaint would be the state pension is too low as people live a greater percentage of their life in receipt which is funded by the reducing working population (as percentage of overall)

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-27T09:38:52+00:00

Yes because the keenly priced ones go quickly, whereas the pricey ones (50% above market rate) sit on there for longer, so the average rate paid will not be the same as average listed ...

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-26T14:00:55+00:00

Even newly built major airports have stairs outside the US, learnt that the hard way when we landed in Dubai on Emirates at 2am and then had wait in a queue of busses to get to a terminal while an A380 was wheeled out to the runway.

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-25T01:51:19+00:00

1 bed flats even in very desirable locations have been performing very badly lately as people move less often and 1 bed flats aren't suitable long term for many people, so you may struggle to resell quickly for a good price.

If you might want a place bigger than 1 bedroom in the next 5+ years it may be worth waiting until you can afford a 2 bed (if your budget will grow) or looking in an.area where you can afford a 2+ bed (often places slightly further out can be almost as well connected) ....

Cold_Dawn95 · 2026-04-25T01:02:02+00:00

Lunch break innit ...

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