First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
No handrail must be against some regulation?
Bless that you think regulations apply to rental....shower doesn't work...complain every month for a year....toilet fucked complain you are shitting in the garden maybe 6 months....heating or anything similarly superficial forget it....then when you try for your deposit they will wipe it out for damp caused by you not having the heating on or some such
For those unacquainted with super yachts, I am in Tivat on Kotor Bay in Montenegro (on assignment for the gazette) and 500m from Porto Montenegro, which is an insane collision of Italian mafiosi and Russian oligarchs and South American drug lords all eating £200 steaks in absurdly overpriced restaurants with their 19 year old “wives”
They come here because it’s “just” outside the EU yet it uses the euro and feels like Monte Carlo etc
Gorgeous part of the world. Been there twice. Been to Kotor and Herceg Novi. Went through Tivat on a coach trip to Lake Skardar. Never got to see the side of Tivat you are seeing. I just want to go back now.
Granddaughters Two and Three, both attractive 18 year olds are currently headed towards the Adriatic region. I look forward to their Instagram photos with a mixture of trepidation and interest. As do their parents.
Hope they have a great time
Kotor Bay, besides having beautiful women, must be one of THE most beautiful places on earth
I cannot think of anywhere on the Med that matches it, apart from Pelion in Greece (which is also spectacular)
Pelion is fantastic. The coast of Arcadia is also recommended.
So I was correct earlier about the location being stuffed with drug warlords.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
No handrail must be against some regulation?
Bless that you think regulations apply to rental....shower doesn't work...complain every month for a year....toilet fucked complain you are shitting in the garden maybe 6 months....heating or anything similarly superficial forget it....then when you try for your deposit they will wipe it out for damp caused by you not having the heating on or some such
However this is something related to safety. That staircase is a deathtrap.
I stand by my prior observation that - alongside Ukraine - the women of Montenegro are the most beautiful in the world. Rebecca West mentions the beauty of the Montenegrins in “Black Lamb, Grey Falcon”
Indeed the Montenegrins might just win because they are cheerier and smiliier. God knows why the Ukrainians are so bloody gloomy and grim faced they should get over it
Didn’t you say that about Circassian women last year?
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
No handrail must be against some regulation?
It probably is, like a lot of things. But a dimly-lit staircase without a handrail is a fairly modest indictment. That's how millions of people live these days. I can confirm it's how millions of people lived fifty years ago. In most cases it's better than the previous place they lived, so they're not complaining. Regulations are one thing; lived experience is another.
That doesn't excuse anything else about this story. The common parts in a block of flats are difficult to maintain when there are people determined to vandalise them, as I know from experience. We had a twat in our block in Islington who took against his neighbour and wrecked their fuse box at night, leaving them in the dark and vulnerable. This is the sort of thing that happens all too often.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
As a normal staircase used by all it is required to be safe. This is under the required standards which have been in place for ~20 years.
I didn't push the description, but it is actually supposed to be 900mm wide with handrails both sides. I'd say that it is wholly inadequate for accessing multiple flats - it looks liked a bodged in repurposed domestic staircase, and if it is a 'block of flats' I suggest that he should actually have created a brand new one that was OK.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
As a normal staircase used by all it is required to be safe. This is under the required standards which have been in place for ~20 years.
I didn't push the description, but it is actually supposed to be 900mm wide with handrails both sides. I'd say that it is wholly inadequate for accessing multiple flats - it looks liked a bodged in repurposed domestic staircase, and if it is a 'block of flats' I suggest that he should actually have created a brand new one that was OK.
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
May as well have the bollinger then.
A diazepam in the midafternoon and a toot on one of those trendy THC vapes will sort you out quite nicely, and will make your £13 pint go much further...
Not to mention the fact your dealer doesn't pay tax...
Socialists always make the mistake of imagining that tax doesn't change behaviour, and eagerly tot up all the amount they'll make if economic activity remains unchanged. See also CGT etc...
This is quite an interesting little story about something that has not been a prominent political question for a few years. Badger cull to be ended by a vaccination (for badgers) programme by the end of the first term, with research on vaccines (for cows) continuing.
Cow culling cost is currently £100m approx per annum.
I didn't think that was coming this quickly. It had a walk on part in the manifesto.
It should end sooner. Recent evidence using gene sequencing to identify TB infection (rather than the unreliable "skin test" in current use) indicates a fairly high level of previously undetected infection in the British herd. It's fairly likely that the whole decades long badger cull debate was almost irrelevant to the problem.
Probably unlike most other contributors here I had had cows taken because they failed the skin test. It was one of the many reasons I decided to retire. My cows did not have TB as the autopsies showed. I think it is being spread by badgers but probably deer as well. The logical thing is to vaccinate the cattle but that wasn't allowed while we were in Europe. We should have been doing that for 50 years.
I cried when they took my cows and I well up now, five years later just thinking about it.
You wonder why farmers voted to Leave the EU.
And still Defra are insisting that we shouldn’t vaccinate cows because they want to sell them into the EU. It’s amazing Defra have environment in their header.
Vaccinate Badgers was simple and being trialled. And paid for by Defra. A year off results.
Farmers didn’t have to stop the trials. That was a very bad decision made by unpleasant people pandering to cultural prejudice.
You only have to please the core voter is a dreadful result that comes out of fptp.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
As a normal staircase used by all it is required to be safe. This is under the required standards which have been in place for ~20 years.
I didn't push the description, but it is actually supposed to be 900mm wide with handrails both sides. I'd say that it is wholly inadequate for accessing multiple flats - it looks liked a bodged in repurposed domestic staircase, and if it is a 'block of flats' I suggest that he should actually have created a brand new one that was OK.
Providing a safe environment for tenants is not optional; it is the most basic of basics. The minute we back off that we are on the skids imo.
We are indeed on the skids. The contrast between theory and practice gets wider and wider as more and more well-meaning regulations become impossible to enforce. So we're reduced to one particular landlord's enemies exploiting his shortcomings for political advantage while the underlying problems are too ingrained to be addressed.
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
Minimum unit pricing shouldn't affect on licence sales, because on licence prices are way higher than off licence/supermarket prices.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
It doesn't , you can still get 10 cans of decent beer for not much over a tenner in Scotland, so 8 pints at 1.25 to say 1.75 max for top stuff, pint bottles IPA £2.
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
Minimum unit pricing shouldn't affect on licence sales, because on licence prices are way higher than off licence/supermarket prices.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
It doesn't , you can still get 10 cans of decent beer for not much over a tenner in Scotland, so 8 pints at 1.25 to say 1.75 max for top stuff, pint bottles IPA £2.
Greene King IPA £1 for 500ml in Tesco down here. Opinions vary on whether that's beer, though.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
As a normal staircase used by all it is required to be safe. This is under the required standards which have been in place for ~20 years.
I didn't push the description, but it is actually supposed to be 900mm wide with handrails both sides. I'd say that it is wholly inadequate for accessing multiple flats - it looks liked a bodged in repurposed domestic staircase, and if it is a 'block of flats' I suggest that he should actually have created a brand new one that was OK.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
No handrail must be against some regulation?
Bless that you think regulations apply to rental....shower doesn't work...complain every month for a year....toilet fucked complain you are shitting in the garden maybe 6 months....heating or anything similarly superficial forget it....then when you try for your deposit they will wipe it out for damp caused by you not having the heating on or some such
They do apply, and standards have been revolutionised since it was all redone in the Housing Act 2005. I trust you are in some measure being ironic.
I refer you to the last 15 editions of the English Housing Survey, and the property and tenant satisfaction data therein.
There's a lot of stuff which has not been done anything like as well as could have been, or where politics or ignorance of politicians have distorted how process could have been better. But we are where we are.
Exanple: whilst commenting on this thread I chatted to one of my tenants where I had noticed whilst having a new boiler fitted that the CO alarm was out of date (I fit 5 or 10 year battery ones), and I'd not chased it up. Not technically my responsibility to replace it as it is not the start of the tenancy, but she might forget and has 3 young kids, so I'll take a new one over on Sunday.
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
Minimum unit pricing shouldn't affect on licence sales, because on licence prices are way higher than off licence/supermarket prices.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
It doesn't , you can still get 10 cans of decent beer for not much over a tenner in Scotland, so 8 pints at 1.25 to say 1.75 max for top stuff, pint bottles IPA £2.
I’m trying to imagine the riots, of they introduced minimum pricing, so that a pint of beer cost £6.89….
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
No handrail must be against some regulation?
Bless that you think regulations apply to rental....shower doesn't work...complain every month for a year....toilet fucked complain you are shitting in the garden maybe 6 months....heating or anything similarly superficial forget it....then when you try for your deposit they will wipe it out for damp caused by you not having the heating on or some such
They do apply, and standards have been revolutionised since it was all redone in the Housing Act 2005. I trust you are in some measure being ironic.
I refer you to the last 15 editions of the English Housing Survey, and the property and tenant satisfaction data therein.
There's a lot of stuff which has not been done anything like as well as could have been, or where politics or ignorance of politicians have distorted how process could have been better. But we are where we are.
Exanple: whilst commenting on this thread I chatted to one of my tenants where I had noticed whilst having a new boiler fitted that the CO alarm was out of date (I fit 5 or 10 year battery ones), and I'd not chased it up. Not technically my responsibility to replace it as it is not the start of the tenancy, but she might forget and has 3 young kids, so I'll take a new one over on Sunday.
That’s because you give a shit.
To many people, flogging a rotting property until they are physically stopped is “Smart Business”
This is quite an interesting little story about something that has not been a prominent political question for a few years. Badger cull to be ended by a vaccination (for badgers) programme by the end of the first term, with research on vaccines (for cows) continuing.
Cow culling cost is currently £100m approx per annum.
I didn't think that was coming this quickly. It had a walk on part in the manifesto.
It should end sooner. Recent evidence using gene sequencing to identify TB infection (rather than the unreliable "skin test" in current use) indicates a fairly high level of previously undetected infection in the British herd. It's fairly likely that the whole decades long badger cull debate was almost irrelevant to the problem.
Probably unlike most other contributors here I had had cows taken because they failed the skin test. It was one of the many reasons I decided to retire. My cows did not have TB as the autopsies showed. I think it is being spread by badgers but probably deer as well. The logical thing is to vaccinate the cattle but that wasn't allowed while we were in Europe. We should have been doing that for 50 years.
I cried when they took my cows and I well up now, five years later just thinking about it.
You wonder why farmers voted to Leave the EU.
And still Defra are insisting that we shouldn’t vaccinate cows because they want to sell them into the EU. It’s amazing Defra have environment in their header.
Vaccinate Badgers was simple and being trialled. And paid for by Defra. A year off results.
Farmers didn’t have to stop the trials. That was a very bad decision made by unpleasant people pandering to cultural prejudice.
You only have to please the core voter is a dreadful result that comes out of fptp.
I don’t mean you ‘A view from’. I think the minister at Defra (tractor lover?) made evil decisions in cahoots with the NFU.
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
Minimum unit pricing shouldn't affect on licence sales, because on licence prices are way higher than off licence/supermarket prices.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
The only alcohol it will really have any effect on is the 2L cheap cider plastic bottles
so what's the point then?
If you are drinking 2L bottles of cheap cider then you are a teenager going through what teenagers go through or you are an alcoholic and need medical help.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
She's comparing a smoking ban to the murder of six million Jews, I mean anyone who thinks that lacks the intelligence God gave pistachio nuts.
Where's her common sense?
The Jess Philips story is MUCH more disturbing. She’s happily admitting that pro Palestinian people get preferential treatment on the NHS. And she doesn’t even seem embarrassed by it
Some comment on it earlier. Personally, I reckon he now has until Monday afternoon to fix it.
(There's nothing wrong with being a bulk landlord who farms out all the work and rakes in the dosh... But a system where that works as a lifestyle is a bad one.)
However, Ilford South Labour has been a nest of vipers for a while, hasn't it?
He's a bad, out of touch, neglectful, currently sitting on his backside landlord. His accommodation quality is poor, he is not fulfilling his responsibilities, his account is not coherent, and his management agents are shit. Making sure it is all in place is *his* responsibility.
Look at the staircase on the "common parts" photograph on the BBC. It hasn't even got a f*cking handrail for a common route to multiple flats. And the lightbulb was dead - unforgiveable when a normal LED bulb will last years. Has it got emergency lighting? What happens in an emergency when they all have to get down that uneven staircase with no handrail?
He'll be hammered under the Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS).
If the Council take it up, as they should, he has 5 or 6 figures of civil penalties incoming.
In fairness "common parts" is a technical term and does not imply the luxury of a JCR. It's just a normal staircase in a block of flats available to all.
No handrail must be against some regulation?
Bless that you think regulations apply to rental....shower doesn't work...complain every month for a year....toilet fucked complain you are shitting in the garden maybe 6 months....heating or anything similarly superficial forget it....then when you try for your deposit they will wipe it out for damp caused by you not having the heating on or some such
They do apply, and standards have been revolutionised since it was all redone in the Housing Act 2005. I trust you are in some measure being ironic.
I refer you to the last 15 editions of the English Housing Survey, and the property and tenant satisfaction data therein.
There's a lot of stuff which has not been done anything like as well as could have been, or where politics or ignorance of politicians have distorted how process could have been better. But we are where we are.
Exanple: whilst commenting on this thread I chatted to one of my tenants where I had noticed whilst having a new boiler fitted that the CO alarm was out of date (I fit 5 or 10 year battery ones), and I'd not chased it up. Not technically my responsibility to replace it as it is not the start of the tenancy, but she might forget and has 3 young kids, so I'll take a new one over on Sunday.
That’s because you give a shit.
To many people, flogging a rotting property until they are physically stopped is “Smart Business”
Absolutely, and it will be the dissembling that will get him, and that is why the whips need to put a Roman Candle up his butt. When he's wibbling about "I appointed a rapid response something something agent", and said agent has just demonstrated that he is *not*, are the LL has just demonstrated that he is not paying attention, then he's in a hole.
In law it's all the LL's personal responsiblity. If the agent runs away with the deposit the LL is responsible for paying it back - that's what "agent" means; hands off, eyes open.
If it was run OK they would all have refused to speak to the Tory politician and the BBC out of loyalty to their excellent landlord.
Even for something as simple as the lightbulb, a competent LL would install a light fitting with TWO lightbulbs so that it could take one dying and still be resilient, or two parallel fittings. If it is one single bulb fitting then when it goes in the common parts (LL responibility) then it has to be replaced before the next time it gets dark, or a hazard is created. This stuff is still just the most basic of the basics.
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
Minimum unit pricing shouldn't affect on licence sales, because on licence prices are way higher than off licence/supermarket prices.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
The only alcohol it will really have any effect on is the 2L cheap cider plastic bottles
It depends how they implement it. Maybe they do want to reduce drinking in pubs. “Let them eat cake serve food.”
Want to go halves on setting up a chain of speak easies in tea rooms? We could be billionaires.
“A latte with an ‘extra shot’?”
Special Tea, as I believe it's known in Muslim countries.
Years back, I attended a wedding in Morocco.
I and the other Westerner attending, were sent to get the booze. In a lorry, driven by two policemen in uniform.
So I was standing on a loading dock, as literal forklifts of booze were being loaded onto the lorry.
The guy with the clip board looked at me, the wedge of currency and asked "Is it all for you?" (Foreigners only allowed buy booze)
Quick as a flash, I pointed a thumb at my friend and said "He's Irish"
The manager nodded and completed the transaction.
Arf. I have visited the "alcohol and pork" room at the back of a Tangier chain supermarket, no policemen involved. I assume you were in a more observant part of the country.
For those unacquainted with super yachts, I am in Tivat on Kotor Bay in Montenegro (on assignment for the gazette) and 500m from Porto Montenegro, which is an insane collision of Italian mafiosi and Russian oligarchs and South American drug lords all eating £200 steaks in absurdly overpriced restaurants with their 19 year old “wives”
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
Minimum unit pricing shouldn't affect on licence sales, because on licence prices are way higher than off licence/supermarket prices.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
The only alcohol it will really have any effect on is the 2L cheap cider plastic bottles
It depends how they implement it. Maybe they do want to reduce drinking in pubs. “Let them eat cake serve food.”
Want to go halves on setting up a chain of speak easies in tea rooms? We could be billionaires.
“A latte with an ‘extra shot’?”
Special Tea, as I believe it's known in Muslim countries.
Years back, I attended a wedding in Morocco.
I and the other Westerner attending, were sent to get the booze. In a lorry, driven by two policemen in uniform.
So I was standing on a loading dock, as literal forklifts of booze were being loaded onto the lorry.
The guy with the clip board looked at me, the wedge of currency and asked "Is it all for you?" (Foreigners only allowed buy booze)
Quick as a flash, I pointed a thumb at my friend and said "He's Irish"
The manager nodded and completed the transaction.
Arf. I have visited the "alcohol and pork" room at the back of a Tangier chain supermarket, no policemen involved. I assume you were in a more observant part of the country.
It was a long while back - they were having a crackdown government at the time. Something about banning smoking outside bars and removing portraits of previous leaders, as well, come to think of it.
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
For those unacquainted with super yachts, I am in Tivat on Kotor Bay in Montenegro (on assignment for the gazette) and 500m from Porto Montenegro, which is an insane collision of Italian mafiosi and Russian oligarchs and South American drug lords all eating £200 steaks in absurdly overpriced restaurants with their 19 year old “wives”
The same judge frozen accounts belonging to Starlink in Brazil. Which caused the Brazilian Military to get very upset - they use it extensively in the deep jungle. So far Starlink have said they are not cutting service.
Speculation is that the Brazilian Military is paying via funds overseas. To do an end run round their own court.
25% unaccounted for. Lots of Greens and LD presumably.
I've searched for the figures for the other parties, but they don't seem to be available yet. The article itself is very frustrating, due to the longwinded way in which the numbers are reported.
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
I just can't see a realistic mechanism for doing this. Not in manifesto. Consensus is would need a referendum. Nobody in their right mind wants any more referendums.
Yeh he could probably ram it through the Commons but no way the Lords are going to agree without months of ping pong.
Charles III may even say it is too far without a ref.
So he has only been PM just over a month and Starmer has already seen Labour's voteshare fall to Ed Miliband 2015 levels. This is certainly a million miles from Blair's 1997 late summer love in with the voters when Labour were on 60% by September with ICM and 59% with Mori and 58% with Gallup and he was almost seen as the next Messiah in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2001_United_Kingdom_general_election
Tories also up slightly to 26% from the 24% they got in July and Reform up 5% too to 19%
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
On the BMG poll tonight we could even get a Tory and Reform government with PR, combined they are already on 45%
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
On the BMG poll tonight we could even get a Tory and Reform government with PR, combined they are already on 45%
That didn't take long - see my comment at 10.56 tonight. !!!!¡!
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
On the BMG poll tonight we could even get a Tory and Reform government with PR, combined they are already on 45%
That didn't take long - see my comment at 10.56 tonight. !!!!¡!
35 excitable minutes!
Go back to the Clacton constituency and prepare for Government. Do you think there might be a seat at HY's top table for Lord Johnson of Hartlepool?
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
I just can't see a realistic mechanism for doing this. Not in manifesto. Consensus is would need a referendum. Nobody in their right mind wants any more referendums.
Yeh he could probably ram it through the Commons but no way the Lords are going to agree without months of ping pong.
Charles III may even say it is too far without a ref.
Isn't it just the sort of thing the Lords would support these days?
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
On the BMG poll tonight we could even get a Tory and Reform government with PR, combined they are already on 45%
That didn't take long - see my comment at 10.56 tonight. !!!!¡!
35 excitable minutes!
Go back to the Clacton constituency and prepare for Government. Do you think there might be a seat at HY's top table for Lord Johnson of Hartlepool?
Damn, because no Brazilians have ever heard of VPNs over which their government has no control?
Having a maverick billionaire defender of free speech, is what the world needs right now. Fair play to Elon Musk, for stepping up to the plate.
Defender of free speech except for when it's directed as him. We absolutely do not need billionaire hypocrite manchildren spreading hate across the globe.
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
I just can't see a realistic mechanism for doing this. Not in manifesto. Consensus is would need a referendum. Nobody in their right mind wants any more referendums.
Yeh he could probably ram it through the Commons but no way the Lords are going to agree without months of ping pong.
Charles III may even say it is too far without a ref.
The idea that PR will be introduced by a Labour government that has just won a landslide under FPP is bonkers. Not going to happen.
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I think we're all underestimating the chances of proportional representation being introduced for the next election, because if Labour are on 25% pretty soon and stay there they won't want to face the next election under FPTP having just seen how the Tories fared with that sort of share.
On the BMG poll tonight we could even get a Tory and Reform government with PR, combined they are already on 45%
That didn't take long - see my comment at 10.56 tonight. !!!!¡!
35 excitable minutes!
Go back to the Clacton constituency and prepare for Government. Do you think there might be a seat at HY's top table for Lord Johnson of Hartlepool?
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
Labour will be happy enough with a lead, given they have had to spend the summer telling everyone the truth: that the public finances are up shit creek and therefore we are going to have to cut / means test your goodies.
The best strategy is to soak up the whining. Do what is necessary. They portray a vision once we are back on track.
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What's with the bloody palm trees in Montenegro?
If this is really what they said, a well-placed [sic] would help.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/30/ozempic-offers-fountain-of-youth-studies-find/
That doesn't excuse anything else about this story. The common parts in a block of flats are difficult to maintain when there are people determined to vandalise them, as I know from experience. We had a twat in our block in Islington who took against his neighbour and wrecked their fuse box at night, leaving them in the dark and vulnerable. This is the sort of thing that happens all too often.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/30/pub-bosses-warned-government-minimum-alcohol-pricing/
Pub bosses warned to expect minimum alcohol pricing
Labour figure warned industry ‘to get its act together’ to tackle harms of drinking, say sources
I didn't push the description, but it is actually supposed to be 900mm wide with handrails both sides. I'd say that it is wholly inadequate for accessing multiple flats - it looks liked a bodged in repurposed domestic staircase, and if it is a 'block of flats' I suggest that he should actually have created a brand new one that was OK.
This is the summary doc. Reference is handrails.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a799834ed915d0422069a0a/150940.pdf
This is the detailed assessment doc with methodology etc.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a78d3d940f0b62b22cbd1d6/142631.pdf
Providing a safe environment for tenants is not optional; it is the most basic of basics. The minute we back off that we are on the skids imo.
You'd expect minimum alcohol pricing to help pubs, by closing the difference between on and off licence prices.
We had word from OGH via Robert that he is doing OK and is laying Trump.
And then our travel and cat correspondent returned from the field.
Good times!
I jest, but note how quickly illegal benzo use went up in Scotland as the minimum price limits got enforced... https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/minimum-alcohol-pricing-has-driven-people-to-street-drugs-say-experts-8t5z8tsf9
Not to mention the fact your dealer doesn't pay tax...
Socialists always make the mistake of imagining that tax doesn't change behaviour, and eagerly tot up all the amount they'll make if economic activity remains unchanged. See also CGT etc...
Vaccinate Badgers was simple and being trialled. And paid for by Defra. A year off results.
Farmers didn’t have to stop the trials. That was a very bad decision made by unpleasant people pandering to cultural prejudice.
You only have to please the core voter is a dreadful result that comes out of fptp.
Clearly drinking in pub gardens is a bad thing and should be banned
Nearly always built by scum and owned by scum.
I refer you to the last 15 editions of the English Housing Survey, and the property and tenant satisfaction data therein.
There's a lot of stuff which has not been done anything like as well as could have been, or where politics or ignorance of politicians have distorted how process could have been better. But we are where we are.
Exanple: whilst commenting on this thread I chatted to one of my tenants where I had noticed whilst having a new boiler fitted that the CO alarm was out of date (I fit 5 or 10 year battery ones), and I'd not chased it up. Not technically my responsibility to replace it as it is not the start of the tenancy, but she might forget and has 3 young kids, so I'll take a new one over on Sunday.
To many people, flogging a rotting property until they are physically stopped is “Smart Business”
*powered by the turbo-compound version on the One True Diesel engine.
If you are drinking 2L bottles of cheap cider then you are a teenager going through what teenagers go through or you are an alcoholic and need medical help.
Labour 30 (-3)
Conservative 26 (+2)
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/voters-labour-dishonest-tax-plans-fuel-duty-rise-3253546
Harris 2.1 / 2.12
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.176878927
In law it's all the LL's personal responsiblity. If the agent runs away with the deposit the LL is responsible for paying it back - that's what "agent" means; hands off, eyes open.
If it was run OK they would all have refused to speak to the Tory politician and the BBC out of loyalty to their excellent landlord.
Even for something as simple as the lightbulb, a competent LL would install a light fitting with TWO lightbulbs so that it could take one dying and still be resilient, or two parallel fittings. If it is one single bulb fitting then when it goes in the common parts (LL responibility) then it has to be replaced before the next time it gets dark, or a hazard is created. This stuff is still just the most basic of the basics.
The 6th. Wikipedia had the others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
I and the other Westerner attending, were sent to get the booze. In a lorry, driven by two policemen in uniform.
So I was standing on a loading dock, as literal forklifts of booze were being loaded onto the lorry.
The guy with the clip board looked at me, the wedge of currency and asked "Is it all for you?" (Foreigners only allowed buy booze)
Quick as a flash, I pointed a thumb at my friend and said "He's Irish"
The manager nodded and completed the transaction.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3rnl5qv3o
But realised they'd rounded us all up, earlier.
Having a maverick billionaire defender of free speech, is what the world needs right now. Fair play to Elon Musk, for stepping up to the plate.
Reeves has been terrible and I'm not hopefully she'll improve. I guess Starmer had a big win with the riot control so maybe that is what is keeping them at only -3.
But...
Winter is coming.
I bet her "happy hours" were a right barrel of laughs - NOT - lol! 😂
"Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Brazil's Supreme Court just banned X and announced an $8,900/day penalty for those who use a VPN to evade it."
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1829620047863824639
Speculation is that the Brazilian Military is paying via funds overseas. To do an end run round their own court.
I'm thinking around 7th November...
Yeh he could probably ram it through the Commons but no way the Lords are going to agree without months of ping pong.
Charles III may even say it is too far without a ref.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2001_United_Kingdom_general_election
Tories also up slightly to 26% from the 24% they got in July and Reform up 5% too to 19%
Harris 49% Trump 49%
https://www.youtube.com/live/X773PMNqjsw
Go back to the Clacton constituency and prepare for Government. Do you think there might be a seat at HY's top table for Lord Johnson of Hartlepool?
The best strategy is to soak up the whining. Do what is necessary. They portray a vision once we are back on track.
Parents will now have to pay an annual payment of £63,000, up from £53,000
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1829497385359212988