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Political Hypocrisy

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Homelessness

The Homelessness Minister Who Creates Homelessness:

While Labour's homelessness minister Rushanara Ali denounces "private renters being exploited" in Westminster, she simultaneously evicted four tenants from her East London townhouse to increase the rent by 21 percent. The same politician championing legislation to prevent "unreasonable rent increases" raised her own rental price from £3,300 to £4,000 per month - a £700 monthly increase that would cost new tenants an additional £8,400 annually.

· via i Paper

Asylum Policy

The Asylum Delusion: How Britain's Political Class Abandoned Both Refugees and Voters

The Economist's proposal to "scrap the asylum system" represents the final capitulation of Western liberalism to its own failures. After decades of mismanaging migration policy, the establishment now proposes to abandon the 1951 Refugee Convention entirely—not to create something genuinely better, but to legitimise what they've already been doing: turning desperate people into political pawns while pretending to care about both human rights and border control.

· via The Economist