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@chrisbjohns.bsky.social @jimpowerecon1962.bsky.social Your latest podcast has achieved something in me I never thought possible: 110% agreement with Jim against CJ. The security of home ownership is buried deep in the Irish psyche. We even gave the world the word "boycott" on the back of it.

Its why my parents sent me and my sister home as babies to live with our grandparents for nearly 10 years while they worked all the hours god sent to save for a house deposit before they brought us back to London to live with them.

CJ may be right about European countries, but they have proper regulations to protect tenants and publicly owned, high quality, reasonably priced, rental housing stock. All in total contrast to the UK.

It's why the Land League was probably the most powerful political organisation in 19th Century Ireland. It spawned Parnell and Davitt, and was supported by Archbishop Croke who had a park somewhere named after him.

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