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Train drivers to join other rail workers on strike - BBC News
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Describing this as an "elitist far-left junta" is a particular 'stand-out' for meState of the comments on this article.
Train drivers to join other rail workers on strike - BBC News
Don't expect consistency from this GovernmentSo. When Boris talks about a high skilled, high earning economy I guess he’s not taking about these high skilled, high earning workers because all of a sudden they’re gready wankers who deserve scorn from the general public. Mixed messages.
Easy to see the benefits of austerity when you're married to a billionaire and have little to no need for public services.Tarnished by Johnson? He's an awful chancellor and his austerity budget in the current environment is enough in itself to tarnish him.
Well, sort of.The affairs and marriage thing is a bit of a red herring - unless you are sleeping with spies or people who are working for you it’s irrelevant
Amazing how they don't think this management is necessary and doctors and nurses can do it until it reaches Whitehall. Then they most definitely need a penpusher with absolutely no previous history of working in the medical sector running everything.It does, I'm working with a trust trying to buy a haemodialysis managed service (new equipment and ongoing maintenance) but without having a single individual solely designated to the project, it is so difficult.
Hospitals are huge complex organisations and the notion that doctors and nurses can run them is for the birds.
It comes across very poorly, aminly because it's a spokesperson for a group who value financial gain and power over pretty much all else.Plebs, know your place. Get back in line.
You can tell it's the thoughts of a person with a privileged background for whom this has never been an issue.Allowing housing benefit claimants to use the payments towards a mortgage?........WTAF?
Thats an even more mental & financially retarded idea than a bridge between NI & Scotland........
Barmy posh c**t.
Turns out she has form for being a dickhead and is clearly stuck in the past
Turns out she has form for being a dickhead and is clearly stuck in the past
I’m still not sure how someone receiving benefits to pay their rent is going to be in a position to get a mortgage. A return of sub prime mortgages maybe, because that ended well last time.Haha!
If it's a 50:50 split how does that enable councils can ensure remedial work is done properly ?You can tell it's the thoughts of a person with a privileged background for whom this has never been an issue.
People on benefits can't afford to heat and eat, but now they're going to be able to afford a mortgage? Except if they have the money for a deposit then they won't get benefits... Or are we now saying 100% mortgage and housing benefit can go on mortgage payments (even though it wouldn't be enough to cover any mortgage payments)?
Also we saw from Thatcher's social housing sell off where this ends - those houses end up getting sold for various reasons (upkeep costs, sold by kids after person dies etc.) and like anyone else it becomes about getting the highest price regardless of the buyer, and now we have a huge amount of housing stock in the hands of buy-to-let etc companies and making the divide much bigger than it was before. We need far better control of the letting and renting market, as well as making second homes prohibitively expensive, but those are very difficult to find a viable solution for that can't be got around.
I'm all for people owning their own property rather than renting an enriching other while making themselves worse off both in terms of cashflow and assets. But there needs to be some sort of oversight to prevent those houses ending up like so many have. And for that I think it should be something like a 50:50 split ownership between council and individual, regardless of house value. Council would have more ability to ensure houses are kept in good order and work is done properly, but also protects residents who would still be able to regain capital and would also be far less likely to trash a place before they leave as it would affect their own outlay. This would allow council a veto over new owners, preventing buy to rent it, turning it into a HMO etc. It would enable families to get preference, even if they have slightly less capital (and thus help towards stopping house prices soaring) and promote community, which should have knock on effects in terms of anti-social behaviour, crime and policing costs.
As the person/family would only need a 50% mortgage, their mortgage payments would be half that of a normal mortgage. Which would give them more to spend on upkeep, which again half of which would be paid for by the council, reducing the outlay somewhat. But the main thing is that is they found themselves struggling to pay their mortgage they would at least get something from the sale of their part of the house/apartment to a) pay off missed payments, b) hopefully provide something towards their next place.If it's a 50:50 split how does that enable councils can ensure remedial work is done properly ?
Also , selling off council stock can lumber buyers with huge bills they cannot get out of if they are leaseholders, of which there are many in inner cities. For instance the installation of double glazing windows : free if you are a tenant, thousands if you are a leaseholder. You can't opt out either.
As the person/family would only need a 50% mortgage, their mortgage payments would be half that of a normal mortgage. Which would give them more to spend on upkeep, which again half of which would be paid for by the council, reducing the outlay somewhat. But the main thing is that is they found themselves struggling to pay their mortgage they would at least get something from the sale of their part of the house/apartment to a) pay off missed payments, b) hopefully provide something towards their next place.
It's not a foolproof idea and would need careful analysis to implement, plus it'd need other policies like more homes being built and cracking down on the letting and second homes industries to help.
Well, that's that idea comprehensively blown out of the water by a reasoned, logical argument.It would never work
Haha!
Well, that's that idea comprehensively blown out of the water by a reasoned, logical argument.
I know it might be a radical idea, but why not keep social housing stock for social housing?
The UK needs to get out the idea that you need to own a house, as the idea is mostly driven by the idea that you need it as an investment.
Of course a higher stock of social housing would mean greater supply of rental property, meaning private rents would come down too. That in turn would mean some people would no longer do *that* as an investment, meaning they'd sell, meaning a greater supply of houses to buy, meaning those prices would come down, meaning more could afford them if aspirational and wanting to move from social housing... but instead of that stock then being gone, there'd be s lot for someone else in need.Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. We’ve got this fixation which I understand is different to a lot of other countries. First priority should be that everyone has got a roof over their heads whether they own it or not
Right-to-buy is just another really poorly thought out idea that Johnson is using to distract from his multiple failings.
If we genuinely want to sort out housing then I'd start by looking at regulating the private rental market (where 9bn is housing benefit is going every year).
We might even need to move away from the obsession with ownership, in the longer term, but regardless it's ridiculous to have a 'market' where people pay as much or more in rent than they would to buy.
Here's a good analysis...
Right to buy put homes in the hands of landlords. Rehashing it will do the same | Bob Kerslake
Rather than revive the policy that lost 40% of council homes to private rentals, Johnson should build more affordable housing, says Peabody housing association chair, Bob Kerslakewww.theguardian.com
More than they accuse Brown of losingThis government is just unbelievably incompetent
How many billions have they threw away of tax payers money?
This government is just unbelievably incompetent
How many billions have they threw away of tax payers money?
There is no such thing as tax payers money. Not wishing to defend the Tories but the £11bn loss should in theory be a gain for people with bank deposits.
But surely you would need to pay rent on the part of the property you didn't own, and if so how are you going to have any excess money left for upkeep?As the person/family would only need a 50% mortgage, their mortgage payments would be half that of a normal mortgage. Which would give them more to spend on upkeep, which again half of which would be paid for by the council, reducing the outlay somewhat. But the main thing is that is they found themselves struggling to pay their mortgage they would at least get something from the sale of their part of the house/apartment to a) pay off missed payments, b) hopefully provide something towards their next place.
It's not a foolproof idea and would need careful analysis to implement, plus it'd need other policies like more homes being built and cracking down on the letting and second homes industries to help.
But surely you would need to pay rent on the part of the property you didn't own, and if so how are you going to have any excess money left for upkeep?
Especially when (presumably) you've had to find an initial deposit, and mortgage interest rates are increasing.
And would you be restricted to when and to who you could eventually sell your home to? And who is going to buy half a house and be forced to pay rent to a third party for the privilege of doing so.
The whole thing just looks like a poorly thought out knee jerk reaction to me.
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