People knocking Teessiders for voting for Houchen.

Nero said:
And back onto Houchen.

He has played the classic Tory neoliberal con trick with Teesworks. Take land and wealth that should be public, and transfer it to private. It’s been happening in mainly England since the 80’s.

I actually think Houchen initially got into local politics for the right reasons. His idea about Teesside Airport was decent. Any regular travellers from there with Peel could see the place was a mess and being ran down. He’s since disappeared down the Tory rabbit hole, no doubt encouraged by the cnut Johnson. Hence why they made Houchen a so called Lord.
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Do you mean the 1680s? It's been going on since the Enclosure Acts, if not before.
 
Scrote said:
First of all, I voted for the Labour Mayoral candidate. If that isn't supporting the Labour Party I'm not sure what is.

I won't vote for Anna Turley for a whole host of reasons. That is on the Labour Party for selecting her to stand in Redcar.

I don't have to be a member of the Labour Party to criticise it when I see them failing the people of Teesside. I'm a member of the Teesside public. Labour's failings affect me.

If the local Labour members decided that rewarding Chris McEwan was more important than fielding a genuine contender then they've failed the Teesside public and deserve to be criticised.

Considering the amount of interference the national party have had further north, the fact they didn't interfere here means they either agreed with the candidate choice or didn't care enough about the area to get involved.

No matter how you try to spin it, Houchen's re-election has come about because the Labour Party - locally and nationally - didn't do enough to prevent it.
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Nope, houchens re-election is solely down to the fact that not enough teessiders have a problem with cronyism and corruption
 
jam69 said:
Nope, houchens re-election is solely down to the fact that not enough teessiders have a problem with cronyism and corruption
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But maybe they would if the message was out there?

The turnout was lower this time than the last. Are you really suggesting that the lack of engagement by the Labour Party had nothing to do with that?
 
jam69 said:
Nope, houchens re-election is solely down to the fact that not enough teessiders have a problem with cronyism and corruption
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I would say I don't think most Teessiders are fully aware of it, or, at the very least, the extent of it.
 
m3t4tr0n said:
I would say I don't think most Teessiders are fully aware of it, or, at the very least, the extent of it.
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Plenty of those who have heard about it will take Houchen's denials at face value too.

Some of my own family members voted for him this time because "he did what he promised" and they didn't believe the allegations.
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
Most of the land in the country is still owned by families who were friends of William the Conqueror back in the day 👶
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It 'probably' does, it isn't public record who large parts of land is owned by.

We should change the law to say ownership by conquest is illegal, and unless you've got a receipt, it's public land. We are one of the worst countries for access to the land in our own country.

Good website for finding out about land ownership with interactive maps https://map.whoownsengland.org/ I mean why do those MoFos in Buck Pal own the River Tees, if the haven't got a receipt, give it back to the people
 
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BoroMart said:
It 'probably' does, it isn't public record who large parts of land is owned by.

We should change the law to say ownership by conquest is illegal, and unless you've got a receipt, it's public land. We are one of the worst countries for access to the land in our own country.

Good website for finding out about land ownership with interactive maps https://map.whoownsengland.org/ I mean why do those MoFos in Buck Pal own the River Tees, if the haven't got a receipt, give it back to the people
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I've got the book 'Who Owns England?', by Guy Shrubsole, the founder of the website. He's a Georgist (like me!). Here's a link to an article he wrote on Henry George and land ownership in England.
 
JackG said:
I've got the book 'Who Owns England?', by Guy Shrubsole, the founder of the website. He's a Georgist (like me!). Here's a link to an article he wrote on Henry George and land ownership in England.
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Yes, I’ve got it too, it’s a good read, I’d never really considered who owned the land before, it was pretty eye opening
 
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m3t4tr0n said:
I would say I don't think most Teessiders are fully aware of it, or, at the very least, the extent of it.
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I disagree, those i know and those on public forums who voted houchen know but are not bothered, quite often saying i dont care as long as it brings in jobs , there's always corruption etc etc
 
BoroMart said:
I mean why do those MoFos in Buck Pal own the River Tees, if the haven't got a receipt, give it back to the people
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When I was a kiddiwink in Billingham we used to feed the swans at Charlton's Pond. Mam (or perhaps it was Dad) reckoned the Queen owned all the swans throughout the land. At the time it made no sense. But they were vicious tw@s mind, so it sort of stacks up.
 
Mr_Fridge said:
Entirely predicable.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1788497108816793773
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Does he genuinely think this is all Sunak's fault? Or is this just another one of his lies, or him being incredibly naïve, again.

The significant problems started with tory austerity, then tory brexit, then BJ, then truss etc, 99% of the damage was done before Sunak even got near PM.

The problem now is the far right has got them in a massive hole, and some are saying the only way to get out is to go further right :LOL:

The tories are all to blame, they built a house on foundations of wet sand, and built it out of paper. Now they're all trying to blame the specification, which they wrote themselves.
 
Andy_W said:
Does he genuinely think this is all Sunak's fault? Or is this just another one of his lies, or him being incredibly naïve, again.

The significant problems started with tory austerity, then tory brexit, then BJ, then truss etc, 99% of the damage was done before Sunak even got near PM.

The problem now is the far right has got them in a massive hole, and some are saying the only way to get out is to go further right :LOL:

The tories are all to blame, they built a house on foundations of wet sand, and built it out of paper. Now they're all trying to blame the specification, which they wrote themselves.
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It's all the loony leftie lawyers fault
 
Andy_W said:
Does he genuinely think this is all Sunak's fault? Or is this just another one of his lies, or him being incredibly naïve, again.

The significant problems started with tory austerity, then tory brexit, then BJ, then truss etc, 99% of the damage was done before Sunak even got near PM.

The problem now is the far right has got them in a massive hole, and some are saying the only way to get out is to go further right :LOL:

The tories are all to blame, they built a house on foundations of wet sand, and built it out of paper. Now they're all trying to blame the specification, which they wrote themselves.
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Such direct criticism of Sunak, given that he's only recently been elected to another term as Major, suggests to me Lord Farquhar has bigger aspirations than his current grift.
 
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