If this is genuinely about solving the housing crisis, where is the plan to build more social housing? 89% of new social housing lettings already go to UK nationals. The remaining 11% include legally eligible non UK nationals such as Irish citizens, people with settled EU status, refugees who have been granted leave to remain in the UK, and those with indefinite leave to remain. These are not asylum seekers, who generally have no recourse to public funds and cannot access social housing while their claims are being processed. Meanwhile, more than 1.3 million households are on social housing waiting lists in England. Deporting people who are already housed would do nothing to address the root causes of the crisis and would likely increase homelessness and housing insecurity. It is simply rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship. The uncomfortable truth is that talking about who occupies a limited number of homes generates headlines. Building enough social housing to end the shortage requires long term political commitment. One changes the story. The other changes the outcome.

Targeting the 7% of social housing tenants with non-UK passports won't lay a single new brick. Even in the dystopian fantasy where you "purge them all !" it wouldn't make a dent in the massive, systemic backlog caused by successive governments failing to build homes. Legally, it's even a non-starter. You can't just tear up the legal rights, secure tenancies, & human rights protections of ILR & Settled Status holders who have probably been rooted in their communities for 20 years paying taxes & fees. The courts would spend a decade ripping the policy to shreds. The councils will go bankrupt due to court fees. But that's the point. It's not meant to be viable. In the laboratory of populist politics, Farage is Pavlov & Far-right voters are the subjects. His policy dog whistles are designed to get all the ethnonationalists going & foaming at the mouth. It's a party that doesn't plan on actually solving anything. They plan on riding a wave of "anti-immigrant fury" straight to No. 10. As long as the base is cheering at the idea of punishing foreigners, they won't notice that nobody is actually building them a house.

Think this is a fascinating read if you have the time. As I get older I realise that a lot of this stuff is cyclical and intentional etc. the more you know the better equipped you are to combat it imo

These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously. The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together. Now is a time for real leadership.

The state of affairs in the UK is scary if you’re not mentally strong or have a support system. The economy is crippling and people are making every effort to show their dislike and hate towards people who have different religion, race or protected characteristics to them

RT @BigJamzLdn: Lucy Letby had an 8 baby kill streak and no one rioted

Its crazy that there are just semi-regular race riots in the UK now

RT @MayorofLondon: Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and compla…

Why the fuck do I keep seeing Nigel Farage AI ads. Fuck off.

"Notting Hill Carnival with less cannabis & more red & white" is a very loaded sentence. All you had to say was "London felt like a carnival today". 🥴

Uproar from fans talking about Bournemouth, Palace and Sunderland potentially playing against AC Milan are so brand new. I watched Fulham beat Juventus in Europa League, Ronaldinho playing against Portsmouth at Fratton Park, you lot just haven’t watched football long enough

This is absolutely beautiful 🥹

Objectively a good thing but will annoy Steve, 61, from Barnsley for some reason.

That logic might apply to other clubs

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This is so cold loooooool

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ it’s v peak

This is why they hate us btw We’re absolutely fucking massive and they know it 😭

Ultimately, there is no amount of facts, logic, rebuttals, statistics, or graphs that can truly counteract a paid agitator snorting a line of coke backstage before lying to a crowd of people who want to be lied to so very much.