A full 5 years after this bill was promised and what is DLUHC celebrating here?

Kicking the end of S21 evictions into the long grass (contingent on a review of the courts system with no timeframe).

The right for landlords to turn down tenants’ requests for a pet.

What a mess.

So Liz Truss' publishers are now having to re-edit her book because she included a fabricated quote peddled by antisemitic conspiracy theorists

We're doomed.

The government has known about this latest scandal for months, but didn’t suspend Menzies until it made the news. Meanwhile they’ve been happily monstering Angela Rayner on a daily basis. This is what Rishi Sunak calls integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.

At some point those concerned about £1500 possibly owed by Rayner are going to call in the police for the tens of thousands allegedly taken by Mark Menzies MP which the Tory Party hoped you wouldn’t know about!

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New from the Work Foundation: 1.4 million UK workers face the ‘double jeopardy’ of insecurity at work and at home as private rents hit a record 9.2% increase on the year. Black and Asian workers are particularly hard hit

In what world is this acceptable? In which political and media ecosystem is more austerity lauded as serious politics?

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

What a day at a possession hearing says about the housing crisis dlvr.it/T5Ys9x #ukhousing

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It's been five years since the pledge to make renting secure... and nothing has changed

Check out our blog for the breakdown, and steps you can take to change renting for the better.

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Happy Has The Government Abolished Section 21 Yet Day - it's been five years since Theresa May's government originally promised tenancy reform.

Renters continue to face homelessness because of s21 - 85,000 households and counting news.sky.com/story/longer-t…

This tweet is an extraordinary exhibition of dishonesty: It is Mike Johnson who has appeased Russia and Iran for many months, by refusing to allow the House to vote on a bill that could provide weapons to defend against both of them.

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Welcome to Toryland, in which an inability to retrieve your WhatsApp messages from a major pandemic is an unfortunate technical issue, but not having (completely hypothetical) messages from 8 years ago is evidence of criminality.

*Taps the sign*

Have you got anything to help with my left foot?

When you’re surprised at the efficacy of a Robin.

The fact that pieces like this are now being written should bring shame and shudder to the West.

And in a 1991 BBC Panorama programme we showed how PM John Major had been registered in 1968 at a house in Lambeth which the owner told me he'd never lived at - not even for one night. That qualified him to stand for Lambeth Council, and he duly won a seat. The Mail splash…

Rayner tax probe : whatever the cops eventually decide here, this is a smear by an anti-tax party & dodgers, legal and not, orchestrated by this man amp.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/… theguardian.com/politics/2024/…