Talk Hearts Daily News Thread

[CritchSmile]

https://twitter.com/iamtomskinner/status...ZOwldxAh0g

He loves cherries

[Charlie Kelly]

I have a loving wife, I can't be a wrong un

[The Great Khali]

He had steak pie for breakfast today

[Shuto Makino]

If it wasn't for the fact it'd attract several thousand guys who make Fraggle look like Oscar Wilde, it'd be such a good bit to scold him for having his wife make his food for him, which reproduces outdated gender roles and fetishises the heteropatriarchal family unit.

[Fraggle]

Gimp ^

[Del-icious]

He had steak pie for breakfast today

You probably think people should be locked up for eating good honest british steak pie! I graft all day and love me kids, if i want to eat steak pie in the morning i will!

[Shuto Makino]

Gimp ^

It's like taking candy from a baby.

[Christian Benorchgrevink]

At least you’re self aware I guess 

[Fraggle]

[Floyd]

You probably think people should be locked up for eating good honest british steak pie! I graft all day and love me kids, if i want to eat steak pie in the morning i will!

PARKLIFE!

[Del-icious]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025...ath-report



All the boomers who claim hardship when they picked up their houses for about £10k rip my heid man My grandad told me the story when he bought his thatcher brought the scheme out and he was quoted about £20k to buy the flat, was still a great price but my grannie wouldn’t commit to it so they were going back and forward on it.

In the time they were reluctant there was even further discount put on it and he ended up buying the house for £8k They’re just about to sell it and MV will be somewhere between 220-250.

What was the reason for such steep discounts? Purely just to give the working class something for essentially nothing and a bonus of eradicating a massive social policy? Could almost understand selling them for cost so you could replace them but don’t understand why they were essentially giving them away.

[Shuto Makino]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025...ath-report



All the boomers who claim hardship when they picked up their houses for about £10k rip my heid man My grandad told me the story when he bought his thatcher brought the scheme out and he was quoted about £20k to buy the flat, was still a great price but my grannie wouldn’t commit to it so they were going back and forward on it.

In the time they were reluctant there was even further discount put on it and he ended up buying the house for £8k They’re just about to sell it and MV will be somewhere between 220-250.

What was the reason for such steep discounts? Purely just to give the working class something for essentially nothing and a bonus of eradicating a massive social policy? Could almost understand selling them for cost so you could replace them but don’t understand why they were essentially giving them away.

(Evil) genius policy from Thatcher - homeowners are much more likely to be (small c or big C) conservative as they see themselves as having a material interest in maintaining the status quo. Incredibly successful in England particularly - that's why you have a massive cohort of reactionary boomers.

[Del-icious]

Hadn’t really thought of the long term tactic of permo turning folk into home owning tories - always thought it was just a short term vote winner

Must be one of the most damaging policies in modern history

Suppose it’s totally reframed the country’s views on home ownership as well where owning a home privately is seen as the default and if you don’t achieve that you’re a failure. Load of pish obv but it’s the game we play now.

[2MatoFish]

Hadn’t really thought of the long term tactic of permo turning folk into home owning tories - always thought it was just a short term vote winner

Must be one of the most damaging policies in modern history

Suppose it’s totally reframed the country’s views on home ownership as well where owning a home privately is seen as the default and if you don’t achieve that you’re a failure.  Load of pish obv but it’s the game we play now.

Sixty percent of ex cooncil houses are now rented privately, meaning the working classes are just supporting lazy rich cunts.

[Christian Benorchgrevink]

You find now that the bubble has burst a bit on the whole buy to let market that some landlords are now selling houses back to local authorities and housing associations. So you’ve got councils buying back houses for 10 and 20 times what they sold them for 30-40 years ago. It’s all just fucking depressing

[Mikey]

Probably the worst domestic policy, post-war, the silly old cunt

[pondlife]

Describing it as one of the “largest giveaways in UK history”, it said the sale of 1.9m council homes in England had contributed to a situation where one in six private tenants in England now rents a former local authority home.

So, i guess that means 5 out of 6 are not rented, and presumably still lived in by the family of those who originally bought the dwelling. Of course they could have been sold and bought by other working class families who have since become home owners. Ohh, the horror! Don't know about you but I'd say that's pretty good going for a 90 yr policy.

[Del-icious]

So, i guess that means 5 out of 6 are not rented, and presumably still lived in by the family of those who originally bought the dwelling.  Of course they could have been sold and bought by other working class families who have since become home owners.  Ohh, the horror!  Don't know about you but I'd say that's pretty good going for a 90 yr policy.

[2MatoFish]

So, i guess that means 5 out of 6 are not rented, and presumably still lived in by the family of those who originally bought the dwelling

Narrator: It did not mean that.

It's saying, of all the private tenants in the country one sixth of them are using ex council houses. Or, ex council houses make up a sixth of the private rental market. British tax payers are subsidising landlords.

That's our housing stock, paid for by our forebears, sold off to boomers for a one time deal and now over 40% of those houses are owned by private landlords. Just like hoteliers making a mint housing asylum seekers, neoliberal policy sees capitalism being kept afloat by the workers. This time we paid for the houses to be built so the private sector could charge us to live in them.

Ragged trousered philanthropy yet again.

[pondlife]

Narrator: It did not mean that.

It was a poor article imo. lefty think tank mumbo jumbo spewing out the same old shit on the subject that's been done to death, in the last 30 years. There were elements of the policy that have benefitted folks and there bits that have had long term consequences. Subsequent govts did fuck all about it.