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Leo Gibbons
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Leo Gibbons
@Layo_FH
YIMBY. Failed politician.
I had a blog.. then I had a podcast... and now I am back to blogging (occasionally) again...
Joined June 2012
- Whenever Boomers reply to me like this they just show how utterly clueless they are about the housing costs faced by younger people. Imagine having paid off your mortgage, bringing in £35k a year, and crying about the cost of your bills and believing you need a handout on top ofReplying to @Layo_FHThe clue is in the name Winter FUEL Payment Fuel isn't free
- Obsessed with Spurs’ anonymous fourth choice goalkeeper casually dropping the Thick of It
- The idea that it would actually be kept standing forever was patently absurd, surely?
- I thought London couldn’t shock me anymore but what??? Why would something like this even exist, if not for events like last night?I live right next to this amazing space in Paddington, with space for hundreds to watch the game, outside, in a zone 1 location with half a dozen tube links nearby They didn't show the game out of respect to local residents... Our capital city is comatose
- What would do if you had a £35,000 income but zero housing costs? Answer in the replies.BREAKING: All pensioners with income of £35,000 or less will have winter fuel payment restored in full. New threshold means 7.5m pensioners who didn't get it last year now will. Paid to all pensioners and then clawed back from wealthiest via HMRC as revealed by @guardian
- Lots of millennials think this and that’s the issue. But the non means tested state pension, triple locked, given to people who are economically inactive for 15/20 years, all paid for by today’s tax payers, is nearly unsustainable now. As the population pyramid continues toReplying to @Layo_FHOne day when the young are old they will have the same benefits especially if they worked hard jealously and resentment get you nowhere
- My mate works as a nurse in a west London hospital. He told me that recently, a guy had a psychological evaluation and was assessed as ‘yeah fine, he can stay on this ward for recuperation’. The guy they said was fine would later get up in the middle of the night and murder an- Man with Down’s admitted with a broken hip, easily fixed with surgery. - Mistakenly marked down as 'nil by mouth' for NINE DAYS. - Due to disability can’t explain he’s hungry. - Literally starves to death on the ward. Nobody notices him slowly dying. itv.com/news/2025-10-0…
- Dear Lord, I thought this Labour government were releasing people like 4 months early from a 12 month sentence for their 19th conviction for affray, or 3 months early from their 8 month sentence for their 16th conviction for handling stolen goods. I didn’t know we were releasing
- A few weeks ago on here I stumbled on some neo-fash-adjacent account ranting about loud telephone conversations on public transport. Now on every bus I get on I can’t help but hear it. Currently two loudspeaker calls going on on my top deck. Is this how radicalisation happens?
- A friend of mine recently told me that the story of Jihadi John broke his idealism. As a nation, we’d given him and his family refuge and asylum, provided them with a council house in one of the most illustrious areas of the country. We’d done everything ‘right’ as a liberal and
- Wanting Prevent scrapped is one of the most glaring political red flags imaginable.🚨🎥 WATCH: Our interview with Mothin Ali, Green Deputy Leader - Left Labour over Keir Starmer - Prevent terror programme should be scrapped for "specifically targeting" Muslims & ignoring far-right extremism - The Greens are more than a "one-issue" party By Amelie Abass
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