Nick Fletcher, Tory MP for Doncaster, voting to water down the Renters Reform Bill.

Fletcher owns 10 buy-to-let properties.

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The UK has been accused of helping Russia to pay for its war on Ukraine via a loophole on oil imports.

📝 My DeSmog report with The Guardian

theguardian.com/environment/20…

UK ‘helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine’ via loophole on refined oil imports dlvr.it/T5xGxs

Latest on 'man of the people' Lee Anderson - new register of interests show he was paid £1,000 for a single Daily Express article (that took him three hours to write)

Russell Bentley, a pro-Russia communist from Texas, has reportedly been killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Back in 2017 Sam Bright reported on Bentley and other Westerners on the side of pro-Russia forces for BBC Trending bbc.com/news/blogs-tre…

Just a thought … but … do we really want people’s pensions to be reliant on the volatile and exploitative business of rent extraction? Would that money be better invested elsewhere? Just a thought. Just thinking.

Three books I’d recommend reading before the General Election

Bullingdon Club Britain by Sam Bright
The Assult on Truth by Peter Oborne
Democracy For Sale by Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack

Liz Truss wants a Climate Freedom Act, apparently.

The 'plan' from the increasingly vocal opponents of net zero seems to be:
1. Scrap all net zero targets and policies.
2. Invest more in fossil fuels.
3. ?????
4. Solve the climate crisis.
desmog.com/2024/04/18/liz…

This is insane shit. 'Access to treatment'. What? People with debilitating health conditions should already be getting access to NHS treatment, and if not, that'll be because of long waiting lists, which twiddling with PIP rules doesn't solve.

Sunak is an absolute clowndork.

The last big litmus test!
UK local elections are 2 May. Perfect timing to share this insightful book to help sway voting choices. It clocks some things the current government have prioritised over the past decade — spoiler alert — often themselves, not us. Sam Bright

If you'd like to complain to Ofcom about this clip, here are some key details:

Programme title: The Neil Oliver Show
Date of broadcast: 14 April 2024
Time of broadcast (24 hour clock): 18.53
Channel / station: GB News

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.Barry Gardiner has our backs

He is 100% right. Rentierism is fuelling inequality. These crooks use the language of buccaneering capitalism to defend vulture-like practices.

Ending leasehold is for the many, not the few.

And it is pro-homeownership, too!

The stuff that The Spectator manages to get away and still remain within the respectable mainstream tells us perhaps more about that respectable mainstream than it does The Spectator