That too… the injuries didn’t help but their recruitment has been terrible

Sort of proves nothing except that a) us against the world is a powerful motivator b) ‘nothing to do with the current players’ is wrong: this team only exists because of the cheating and c) cheats never prosper is badly out of date

Yes it is output areas of about 250 people but that’s not the impression it gives and there are many problems with using them as you say

Ah ok - so it’s the way the Telgraph reporting it that’s the problem

Same issue with every one I clicked on - unless they mean much smaller areas within the MSOA but that’s not how they’re reporting it

The CSJ report doesn’t come out till Tuesday - I’m assuming these are MSOAs, 16-64 as proxy for working age (?) but implication seems to be smaller units within them

First thing I did was click on where I live - there are apparently 65 claimants in Penzance North representing 53.7% of population aged 16-64. So just 121 people in whole area? (Actual population 8,400 so perhaps 4,500 aged 16-64)

It can be hard to separate out problems with flat ownership and leasehold generally from retirement flats specifically but those are definitely one of the dividing lines

Move out of London and vote for town council?

Or taken a good idea that’s desperately needed and sent out a message that says don’t touch with a bargepole Thankfully it also features a scheme that seems not to be a rip-off

Watching Tonight on ITV and wondering if any sector has done more to trash their own brand than retirement home developers

(Good politics as in many more people - potential Tory voters - believe they’d be caught by IHT than ever would be)

Good politics, bad tax policy, terrible housing policy

I think scrapping stamp duty will go straight into higher prices and benefit existing owners - like scrapping mansion tax. Stamp duty is a terrible tax that depresses transactions and building but scrapping it needs to be part of wider property tax reform

Main beneficiaries of Tory plans to cut inheritance tax, scrap stamp duty on primary residences and abolish the mansion tax would be affluent existing home owners (ie traditional Tory voters). Would mean a short-term boost to house prices and probably housebuilding too but at what long-term cost?

Heaven protect us from people seen as a 'rising star' in their party

Latest from the Tory conference includes the shadow housing secretary suggesting that the Renters Rights Act has 'got to go' before realising that too was initially a Tory idea (on the grounds that the party had to do something to appeal to young people and renters)