IIRC Hunt played fast and loose with the OBR five year rule by cutting NI but promising that the government would raise taxes in the future to compensate for the lost income. Unsurprisingly it turned… (View Post)

NB. I guess in the future what people in ISAM’s position are going to have to do is get a third party to act as rent guarantor & give them a large pile of cash to cover the risk, repayable at the… (View Post)

Given current practice I expect Labour to decide to ban guarantors in the next Renter’s Rights Bill. Why should people with rich parents have an advantage over those that don’t? (Although perhaps tha… (View Post)

It’s kind of spectacular just how anti-free market the last Conservative government was. The entirety of the British state appears to have abandoned any idea that market forces & market prices ar… (View Post)

This is supposition, but I suspect that MPs were swayed by stories of constituents borrowing money at usurious rates in order to outbid other renters for rental properties. It’s pretty obvious that, … (View Post)