A decade of electing right wing governments, even AFTER the direct lies about Brexit - made things worse? NOWAY! \s
its global though. Is it really that all these countries happened to vote in their right/left wing parties or is something else going on
It's not global. Go get the Wikipedia page of "homelessness by country". It's not global. It's not the case in Finland or Vietnam for instance.
I think they are referring to the phenomenon that seems to be taking place where far right politicians seem to be gaining ground in many countries across the globe
The reason for extremism gaining traction is relatively known, but OP was questioning the more subtle “conservative”-leaning parties being in power globally (seemingly) for the past decade at least. That’s somewhat harder to explain. For example, it’s harder to explain how most western countries became neo-liberal at the end of the 90s.
Extremism gains traction when there’s societal divide with at least one of the divisions significantly poorer than the other.
As awful as that is, based on your link, at least the children are all being put in a place where they have meals and a roof over their heads.
There was a high school girl who came into the library where my wife worked who slept in a tent out in the woods with her alcoholic father (there was no indication he was sexually abusing her). We bought her another tent so she could have some privacy, but that was all we could do. She walked for miles every morning to get to school. I felt so bad for her.
why even live in a tent if you also camp miles away from where you need to go every day
Because they can't afford a home and homeless people get driven out of their encampments into the woods outside of town by the cops.
I imagine cops would forcibly remove homeless tents near nice neighborhoods, which is usually where schools are located.
There are only so many places the unhoused can go without their shit getting fucked with
miles also isn't really far though. I walk miles to go get a freezy on a sunday
Conservatism is a deadly national disease long overdue for a cure.
Unfortunately, conservatives currently control the Labour Party.
And when you consider how they are maintaining their majority position within the party, you may want to reconsider the state of democracy in the UK.
Mr Tarry, a former political officer at the TSSA trade union, has been the MP for Ilford South since 2019. In the summer of 2022 he faced a trigger ballot, a Labour Party mechanism that lets local parties force a re-selection vote, losing the subsequent vote that October.
Mr Athwal, the Redbridge council leader, won the selection. He had been endorsed by Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary and one of the party’s leading moderate figures.
Mr Tarry is understood to have won 57 per cent of the in-person votes at the selection but just 35 per cent of the Anonyvoter votes, plus a small number of postal votes. Mr Athwal won 43 per cent of the in-person votes but 65 per cent of the Anonyvoter and postal vote.
The vote breakdown was provided by Mr Tarry’s team. No record is published by the party. Labour and Mr Athwal did not dispute the accuracy when approached for comment.
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Ms Winter competed against Gerald Jones, the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, who was made shadow Scotland minister by Sir Keir in September.
She won 56 per cent of the postal votes but 47 per cent of the Anonyvoter votes, according to a breakdown recorded by her team. There were no in-person votes.
Mr Jones won 43 per cent of the postal votes – there was one abstention – but 53 per cent of the Anonyvoter votes, meaning he will be the candidate for the new seat.
Before and after the June 2023 selection, Ms Winter’s lawyers Howe+Co sent letters to senior figures in both the UK Labour Party and Welsh Labour raising concerns about the process.
A letter sent to Jo McIntyre, the general secretary of Welsh Labour, before the selection raised concerns about using online voting, saying: “As you are aware from previous trigger ballots and selections, there is serious disquiet among some parliamentarians and party members that online processes have produced and will continue to produce undemocratic results which lack fairness and transparency.”
so they're short on bootstraps, gumption, and elbow grease huh
Their rich people are doing fine.
As always.
This is what happens when you elect politicians that are in Putin's pocket.
Nah. It's what happens when you support the growing disparity in wealth for generations.
Maybe Sunak should take a break from trying to send people to Rwanda to tackle this
That would entail Sunak actually giving a shit about the people vs him staying in power by placating the racists.
him staying in power
That ship sailed a while back. He'll be running away to Santa Monica before the year is up.
Sending people to Rwanda is part of blaming a certain group for everything that is going wrong. Housing crisis? Caused by this group, then take some terrible action against them. Meaning, they'll keep sending them to Rwanda.
Honestly don't think they even want to send people to Rwanda.
They just think it sounds horrible so racist old cunts vote for them.
well, it's not just a housing crisis
Whatever you do don't try to build tiny homes for the homeless. Last time someone tried it the government wrecked them.
16%? Wtf? That's almost 1 in 5 people being homeless.
It's an increase of 16%, not to a total of 16%.
The number of homeless people jumped by 16% (I assume compared to last year's numbers). That doesn't mean that 16% of people are homeless.
16.6r% is one sixth. 👍
It's title gore. I thought the same thing at first.
Homelessness jumps 16%
How is that titlegore?
I read it as "homelessness jumps 16% from wherever the fuck it was before"
It was your reading comprehension that let you down, not the headline 😂
I understood it the second pass. Just because it's grammatically correct doesn't mean it's clearly written.
Yes... I thought 'WTF... that can't be right" then read the first sentence, went back to the title "Oh... no I didn't misunderstand, I was mislead". Bad OP.
Homelessness jumps 16%
How is that misleading?
Jumps by 16%? Jump to 16%? I would question my own mastery of English but if others had the same problem then arguably it was not clear enough.
I have a long history in the financial industry so maybe it’s just experience around terms like that. But saying something jumped X% is pretty normal, even if it’s a percent that jumped (so a percent of a percent).
Jumped to X% is entirely different.
For instance, consider “the percentage of people that owned homes dropped 50%” aka “home ownership dropped 50%”
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