You trust the motives of our corrupt government? Bless.
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Yes around 2007 it was pretty much expected he would cross the Isles to Labour
Gordon brown actually appointed him as a special adviser if I recall
Probably hoping now for a labour pm and switching alleigence so he can get a cushy number at the house of lords
Is Cummings ultra conservative!? He seems pretty apolitical to me who just wanted money to fund the U.K. version of DARPA.
He designed the Brexit campaign and was the man behind "Get Brexit Done". He's definitely conservative in UK terms. I mean he is a complete Tory. He is also clearly quite liberal but I don't mean he isn't liberal when I say he is conservative.
His lifelong ambition is the centralisation of power. He wants all Gov. Dpts. to be run from no. 10. A civil servant with an iconoclastic axe to grind.
I can see your point, and there have been restrictions on everyone that have been frustrating, and indeed detrimental.
But in the scheme of things, 2.5k people in and out on 24 hours allows us to host 3 significant football matches, and upwards of 75k of fans to watch the semi finals and finals of the Euros. If these games were two weeks later, it wouldn’t be an issue.
if this was in January this year, then yes of course - but I think given where we are, this is highly insignificant. Albeit, i do recognise that there’s two different rules - but also allowing these people to be exempt allows a lot of ordinary people to have a once in a lifetime experience.
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wtf are you on about
Are you denying there is a lack of homes for people to live in?
Can someone explain how the feck the Tories are ahead here and fecking Galloway the cnut thrown in as well. Labour will need Lib Dem’s to vote tactically.
You think the proposed changes in housing policy are because we need more homes?wtf are you on about
Are you denying there is a lack of homes for people to live in?
Very naive, at best.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-cash-favours-cabinet-secretary-a9567121.html
Oh give over, you. Are you denying there is a housing shortage in the UK?
The people in Amersham and Chesham are Tory through and through. It's a clear NIMBY vote.
The same way that Socialists in Northern constituencies voted Tory because they're a bunch of fecking racists at heart.
You do love to generalise.
It is always said that there is a housing shortage and has been for many decades.
There may be a shortage of so called affordable housing.
But the rate of house building has gone up significantly in the last few years.
The biggest problem is that we are building some of the smallest houses in Europe and as a result, families need to move to bigger houses which they struggle to afford.
In my view, it has become unfashionable to vote Labour for many reasons.
And it has become fashionable to vote Tory.
Plain and simple.
there are upwards of 700k empty homes in the UK.
There is lots of affordable housing, but it’s not in the areas that many want it to be.
Bingo - in France a room is not classified as a bedroom unless it is 9m2 so a four bedroom shoebox in the UK would generally be classed as a 2 bedroom house with cupboards
Wait what? Not doubting you but that figure seems massive.
it is massive. It’s hugely unreported. One of the biggest issues that most of these properties are in a poor state of repair. The focus has been on new housing. So if you were a first time bitter without the required deposit, there is govt. help but only to buy new properties. In effect propping up the big house builders.
Very few incentives to bring back houses in disrepair back into the housing stock.
Landlords owning tens or hundreds of unaffordable houses in poor states of repair doesn't help either. Obviously nothing wrong with landlord/renter situations but there's sometimes very little incentive for the landlord to be responsible. And before anyone mentions bad tenants, there's plenty of incentive for them not to be twats - it's their only home - but if they're high, irredeemable twats, or have mental health problems or whatever, then they're likely not thinking about the future.
Keir Starmer needs to go and read "the book of Job"... for comfort. Just when he thinks his lot as Labour Leader can't get any worse, Bercow does him this massive service!!! The 'Bercow' the only man who can topple both a Red Wall and a Blue Wall, just by being himself...." Keir's doomed ah tell yer, doomed!"
having a private rental sector is essential for mobility. Like anything, there are good and bad landlords.
i think there was a post in here about a housing association - which are often much worse than a small landlord.
its actually these small landlords that are in the best place to bring back into circulation the empty houses.
Many owner occupiers can’t afford or don’t want a ‘do upper’, and there’s not enough money in it for bigger developers.
For sure, I'm just saying that there are plenty of these types of landlord who don't give a feck about the houses and still make plenty of money anyway. That should be disincentivised in some way ideally.
with Section 24 and the introduction of EICRs - it’s getting closer towards ‘professional’ landlords.
it’s ironic with these types of landlords, that spending money on repairs and maintenance correlates to higher rents and better tenants. Many fail to see the bigger picture.
True. Better than it was no doubt. I suspect the problem is more enforcement - court cases take forever these days, and inspections of properties pretty much just aren't a thing.
Very good point that. Land is a finite resource and should be cherished and valued. Once it is covered by concrete, it is lost forever.
Indeed. I well remember being in Germany with work colleagues who were always keen to show me their homes. And I was completely surprised when they were able to quote the square metres size.
When I told them that in England, we classify the size of a house by the number of bedrooms. And they all said - what has that got to do with it. And of course they were perfectly correct.
In some houses, the smaller bedrooms are even too small to fit a single bed. The beds have to be specially made.
And as we know, the UK has some of the 'biggest' people in Europe.
I know examples of landlords that apply for HMO licences. They essentially are allowed to operate as an HMO prior to an inspection, yet the wait for inspections is more than 2 years. You can get fined up to £10k per offence operating as a HMO - so the framework is there, just no one to implement it.
on the other side of things, hearings to evict tenants who haven’t paid rent are not being heard for over 12 months in some places.
there is very little enforcement on either side of the fence to remedy bad landlords or bad tenants.
Yeah, sounds about right. It's the same with most of these things after so many years of austerity it seems - HSE inspections, licencing for bars, the Covid regulations, legal aid...there's obviously a balance to be had, nobody likes too much intrusion into their lives, but there's no point having rules that only the good people follow.
Except for both parties involved, its not at the top of the list for urgent action for anyone else !
Isn't that the situation in most cases, we have a whole category of citizenship where rules such as "keep off the grass", "no parking" etc. believe it doesn't apply to them.
So you agree it's a problem then? I'm confused, do you think the rules should be enforced or not?
Its a problem for those involved of course, but I am not holding my breath that any 'enforcement' will occur except what naturally occurs over time, which of course is something neither landlords nor tenants have!
The second point I was making is that there are many areas where people flout the rules, or fail to adhere to them, and don't even recognise these apply to them, and even for the criminal ones there is little in the way of enforcement happening.
It is my opinion that this situation pertains because what are rules/laws/personal views and opinions are now merging and resulting in a psychosis affecting the nation, due mainly to social media echo chambers..... and to a lack of 'enforcers'.
Going back to the G7 I was surprised this wasn't posted on here, or if it was I can't see it.
Both disgusting and completely predictable that he wasn't elevated to the Lords after he ended as Speaker anyway. Tory twats just ignore convention any time it suits.
This all sounds a bit mad in fairness.
Yes I would say its a silly convention but even more petty to break it ...
The bullying allegations you could argue makes striong case not to promote him to the Lords but if you were being consistent then priti patel wouldn't be home Secretary
Poorer white pupils neglected for decades, say MPs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57558746
Nothing to do with years of cuts and lack of funding……
Nothing to do with years of cuts and lack of funding……
So the right have figured out the solution to identity politics. Use identity politics to blame the identity politics that came before. Genius.
It’s a joke that committees can gather such useful information and then just distort and use it purely for political attacks.
It’s a joke that committees can gather such useful information and then just distort and use it purely for political attacks.
Of course not, I'm saying the Tory government is not bothered about the housing shortage, this is self evident over the last 10 years. Also social housing has fallen by 97% since 2010 fir example. They are also not bothered about building affordable homes. They are bothered about profits for Tory donors. Just look at Jenricks behaviour for a start. One example of that below.
Point is, if you think our corrupts government's recent housing policy is anything other than bribe, bribe, bribe, you are naive.
https://news.sky.com/story/the-1bn-...robert-jenrick-controversy-explained-12014447
Ive trimmed your quote. Let's stick to the point. Rather than your wild accusations of voter racism when we are discussing housing policy.
They also gloss over the reason that the pupils are on food tokens. A large portion of the ethnic students will be immigrants or first generation and their families are still setting up social networks. Some of the white students they are talking about are from families of 5 or 6 generations who haven't worked. Totally different reasons for poverty and totally different opportunities and routes out.
And saying that white privilege doesn't exist means that they don't understand what white privilege is, which from a senior government body is fecking scary.
UK begins talks to join Asia-Pacific CPTPP trade treaty
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...a-pacific-cptpp-trade-treaty-liz-truss-brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...a-pacific-cptpp-trade-treaty-liz-truss-brexit
That's a Bill Burr bit!
The quality of the politicians we have is frightening
It's almost pathetic, isn't it, the lengths they are prepared to go to. The reasoning seems to be white privilege doesn't exist because some white kids are underprivileged.