Wake Up And Smell The Propaganda with CANCELLED Dr David Miller NTBCFMPS30Jun23

David Miller, former Sociology Professor at Bristol University, joins Tony and Martin. The cost of living crisis linked to the Ukraine war. Those on a low income and benefits cannot afford rental market.– Only 5% of privately rented properties in the UK are affordable to those on housing benefits, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. That’s a significant drop since the start of the pandemic, when 23% of new lets advertised on property website Zoopla could be rented solely using government housing support, the IFS said in a report published Tuesday. The findings pile pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government to end a three-year freeze on Local Housing Allowance rates, which determine the maximum a family can get toward their private rent costs. With rents rising by around a fifth in the same period, the freeze is inflicting further pain on low-income households already struggling with a sharp increase in food and energy costs. The LHA rate has been capped at 30% of average local rent in September 2019. A housing crisis is brewing in Britain as millions of people are forced to re-negotiate expiring fixed-rate mortgages at significantly higher costs as the Bank of England raises interest rates in its battle to tame inflation. Landlords are hiking rents to cover the extra costs. The little affordable housing left on the market is more likely to be of poor quality, the IFS said. Below average energy ratings and higher water and heating costs further erode the disposable income of those finding it hard to get by. According to the report, a quarter of the private homes rented by people on a low income would fail the Decent Homes Standards, the legal minimum requirements for social housing.

New bill on striking .RMT to take to streets in national protest against strikes bill – ‘We will fight this in the courts, the media and the workplace’, union leader Mick Lynch says Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, July 27, 2022 RAIL union RMT will take to the streets in a national demonstration against the Minimum Service Bill and to appeal for support from other unions, the Morning Star can reveal. Dozens of delegates at the union’s AGM in Bournemouth declared their total opposition to the “conscription of labour” today and vowed to take all action possible against this “dystopian” legislation. To rapturous applause, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “We need a national mobilisation of the entire organised working class. “We will fight this in the courts, the media and the workplace.” Although the exact details of the legislation are not yet clear, unions could face devastating financial penalties if they call strike action that falls foul of the law, with the courts forcing them to instruct their own members to cross picket lines. In a clear message to the government and employers, Mr Lynch added: “This union will not be bowed, we will not be cowed. “And we will continue to fight for our people and do whatever is needed to defend our members and the rest of the working class.” Delegates representing all parts of the union rose to speak on the unanimously backed motion.

Rioting in Paris France after police murder teenager. Nazis in Ukraine. Zionism. Western secret services supporting dodgy groups to fight ‘the enemy’. Riots in Paris. Muslim extremism. Greyzone. Magazine like Encounter …? Nazism surviving post WW2, particularly in intelligence services. ‘There is no hope’: simmering anger boils over in poverty-riven French district Situation in Borny mirrors that in many of the neighbourhoods that have clashed with police amid riots...

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