Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build
by lucubratory on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:59PM
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I don't know if it's the same in the UK, but in Australia 63% of MPs are landlords, compared to only 7% of the general population. Almost no MPs are renters, compared to 30% of the general population. These people are never going to meaningfully help renters because doing so harms landlords, and they are landlords. There's no legitimacy to a system like this, being ruled by people who have completely different fundamental interests to you and with no legal way to vote for anyone else because every major party is a landlord party.
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It’s so rare that one of the candidates for my area in the NSW election even had “Vote a renter into parliament” on every one of her posters and flyers.
Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build
by lucubratory on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:34AM
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Yep, I took particular note of Max Chandler-Mather after seeing a particularly passionate and persuasive speech on housing affordability (this one: https://youtu.be/DD54fVtlUSA). Looked him up to see if he was himself a landlord, he's one of the very few that isn't.