I agree with the ASB issues in council estates which is mostly caused because people allocated council tenancies are on the whole people who suffer from poor mental health and addiction issues and many aren’t tenancy ready and need more effective floating support and medical support. (That’s not everyone but many)!

 

But the standards the council has to meet are far and away greater than that of a private landlord who pick and chose which laws to follow.

 

Too true. Council properties have lots of H&S rules to follow, private landlords can be damp, rotting, expensive to heat cos they only care about getting someone in quick not upgrading them.

I hope we're at the point in Johnson's rule that whatever he does people will remain unimpressed and won't trust him and in this case like every other case, rightly so!

Meanwhile, news deflecting going on from Downing Street with plans to allow people with little or no income to get mortgages to buy Housing Association properties. Taxpayer supported obviously, that means those of us who have never been able to afford a house, but not poor enough to qualify for spending 10 years on a waiting list for a Council House, paying to give massive mortgage-default-risks (benefit to count towards a mortgage as "income") a cash gift assuming that the banks can suddenly get reckless all over again knowing that the taxpayer will save them again in order to try and boost the popularity of a liar with the struggling working class and hang on to those borderline seats at the next election. And more importantly the by-elections coming up, as a shit result will persuade more Tories to dump Bozo. Oh, yes, forgot to add that Right To Buys are still ongoing, Council's sell 2 at half price to buy one back in a cheaper area, the waiting lists get longer and the private sector renting out gets rich on the back of the taxpayer. I'm currently dealing with a complaint about a sale plan being wrong on a Right To Buy from 5 years ago. The new buyer doesn't like the plan. The previous Council tenant waited until the 5-year-period was done and wasted no time cashing in on the £75,000 cash gift from the Council. Happy to help.

 

What could possibly go wrong with the new plans?

 

Completely agree: there is so much wrong with this policy and it's a complete nothingburger with no real thought or planning behind it; it's a flop tired retread, disingenuous and full of empty electioneering soundbite promises, it's unfair, pointless and it is doomed to fail (if it even makes it at all given the inevitable opposition from Housing Associations etc). To bring this in demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of what the issue is and how to solve it. The housing crisis *was caused* by Margaret Thatcher's Right To Buy scheme. Why would extending that scheme help to lessen that crisis?

Completely agree: there is so much wrong with this policy and it's a complete nothingburger with no real thought or planning behind it; it's a flop tired retread, disingenuous and full of empty electioneering soundbite promises, it's unfair, pointless and it is doomed to fail (if it even makes it at all given the inevitable opposition from Housing Associations etc). To bring this in demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of what the issue is and how to solve it. The housing crisis *was caused* by Margaret Thatcher's Right To Buy scheme. Why would extending that scheme help to lessen that crisis?

 

hear hear! And I'd add, by rich foreigners buying up British houses as guaranteed investments that bring in high rent while you wait for the price to skyrocket, courtesy of the taxpayer paying far more in rent support to the private sector (eg Tory financial supporters) as opposed to the taxpayer paying Councils who reinvest the money into the housing stock and help subsidise other services. Everyone knows this is true, but Tory Governments need rich fiends to fund them. Meanwhile those of us who have to stick money into banks to save are watching it lose 10% in value before our very eyes in the course of 12 months.

 

Still, it keeps struggling British working class workers in their place. The place being low-paid jobs and a poverty trap that never lets you climb out of it despite all their promises they havent delivered on.

 

 

Sunak and Javid have resigned. It's over for Boris!! :D

 

Get the champagne out lads.

Yep, this will start a domino effect. No way he can outlast this even if he's dragged kicking and screaming from office.

 

'Forgetting' about a formal complaint of sexual abuse was certainly a choice of words, can't blame him, a lot of those to keep track of (:////)

Disgusting enabler of sexual abuse amongst his millions of other crimes. Let's hope he goes soon. As long as it's not bloody Liz Truss though....

 

Think Sunak and Javid will cause massive headaches on the backbenchers.

This has to be it. In any other job, you’d be gone for something like this.

Hmm. Even I can't see him outlasting this. Sad days. Very sad days for the UK. Ah well you get what you deserve. I think you lot will regret the loss of Boris. If it keeps The Tories in power, great though.

With two senior cabinet members resigning, this is a serious blow for Johnson and it’s only a matter of time before he goes.

Surely this time he is done, for real?

 

Gonna be an interesting night.

As Covid hasn't gone away, I think I should point out that to lose one Health Secretary in a pandemic may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.

As Covid hasn't gone away, I think I should point out that to lose one Health Secretary in a pandemic may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.

 

What about losing two ministers within a minute?

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Sunak and Javid although certainly don't agree with their political views - both are financers who don't care about equality were probably the best of the rubbish in the Government benches.

 

Big blow for Boris losing those two high profile cabinet members, he may not last till Christmas

 

I think this bloke will be happy :lol:

 

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Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end for Boris.

 

Perhaps a snap general election the come? *_*

f*** me finally!

 

How long did Maggie last when Howe stepped down? A year?? Then did Lawson resign in Nov 90 causing her to go?

f*** me finally!

 

How long did Maggie last when Howe stepped down? A year?? Then did Lawson resign in Nov 90 causing her to go?

Thatcher was gone within a few weeks of Howe's resignation. It remains to be seen whether Javid or Sunak deliver a resignation speech as devastating as Howe's.

 

I dont think this is the end of Boris, he and Priti are probably cooking some new disaster for us to focus on soom with boris's cabinet choices