2024 UK politics - now with Labour in charge
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What's the attraction of Cambridge if your parents are not keen to help?
I was intrigued whether there is any truth to boomers offering less help with childcare. I didn't find an answer, but the Reddit hypothesis is that if your grandparents helped out a lot, then your parents won't be much help when they become grandparents.
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That's interesting as our experience is the opposite which confirms it. Little help from our parents but we have been on call 24/7. That report says our Millennial children will be unhelpful grandparents as a result. This is sad. 😰
More for the Dadsnet thread though.
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I thought they would do more than they do tbh. They make it remarkably difficult.
They’re good in an emergency like when the second was born. Up to a point
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You obviously traumatised them Rick
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Yeah probably don’t need to go into the childhood thing but certainly being a parent yourself makes you reevaluate how they parented you….
Funny the things you thought were normal. Never what you’d have expected.
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A proper bit of hypocrisy from a Labour councillor... from what I read in Private Eye, there's plenty of mud to sling at council members of all parties... but this is a corker... Lewis Goodall does have a fair point... send the right message with an appropriate penalty from the central Labour.
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Given how ruthless Starmer has been in the past, it would be nice to see some action against Jas...
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Well I think he has gone panic mode. He has sacked the letting agency, meeting all residents personally to apologise and getting all repairs done pronto.
I think he hoping to get away with extreme embarrassment and a slap. Shocking tho’, as he had written an article about rogue landlords.
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Yes, furious. If his excuses don't add up, he should be toast. Well, he ought to be anyway, if he wasn't aware what state his properties were in. Starmer's got a big enough majority to make a point, if he cares to.
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Remove the whip, see proof that all the issues in each of his properties have been fully rectified and then add on another six months to ensure things continue in the same manner before he considers restoring it. Might he a start perhaps?
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Just to play devil’s advocate it does depend on what his contract with the letting agent says. I haven’t read any details but he could have numerous properties that he buys and then leaves to the agent to maintain and run. If the contract is that they inspect and maintain with the owner being completely hands off then he may genuinely have been unaware.
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It'll be amusing if Starmer plays the "I can't comment while there's an official investigation underway".
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I believe he has the latest rental portfolio of any MP...
Most/all rental agencies will get in touch with the property owners for issues, even when they are paying for full management, as the property owner will need to provide funds.
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Sure, but if the letting agents aren't saying 'this property has mold and we need you to authorise work to get it fixed' the owner isn't going to know.
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Not if they don't fix them.
Personally, I'm not convinced that "I don't care enough about my tenants to be unaware that my properties are mouldy and full of ants" is a great defence.
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Indeed, and especially if you've been in positions where you can affect standards expected and you will be under greater scrutiny because of your position. If his best defence is naivety/lack of interest, it doesn't reflect well.
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I mean...
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Safe to say he's misread the room.
I wouldn't be sacking him for being a rogue landlord, I'd just be sacking him because he's an idiot.
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Sure, but my experience from being renter and landlord, is that the reason things don't get fixed is the landlord not being in contact. Or going for "repairs" when replacements are needed.
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yep, given his previous role as local council leader, i'd have thought he'd have made sure he was squeaky clean on this
he is reported as saying "he did not take on tenants on housing benefit to avoid conflicts of interest with his role as the local council leader", but if he's outsourced management, i don't see why that should be an issue, the agency is handling things, he's not involved, imo in context it seems more like a revenue protection measure
then there's the failure to license correctly, under a scheme he introduced while council leader, he can hardly claim ignorance
even if the agency were lying, hiding issues, treating tenants badly, and allowing his assets to rot, does he really not have a check every few months?
he seems improbably detached from what is presumably a significant income source for him, except when it comes to refusing to accept people on benefits
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As far as I'm aware, even if you use a management company, you still need to be registered as a landlord personally. That's the case in Scotland anyway.
And people on housing benefit have a guaranteed rent, so he's just a snob on that front.
Like I said, idiot.
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Don’t understand why he hasn’t been bashed by the tories. Perhaps they have ants in the closet as well..
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I wouldn’t describe it as an industry. A lot of private landlords are just opportunists who’ve watched too much Homes Under The Hammer and want to make a quick buck.
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Awkward reading for supporters of both the previous and new government in the Times.
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