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Silly McSilly Face said:
Rent isn't about the value of the property though as the value of the property is ultimately what people are willing to pay for it or how much a bank values it as security for a loan. Lots of rental properties are in areas that are less desirable and so values are depressed but the maintenance of the property doesnt reduce and from my experience the maintenance costs for a rental property as a landlord are far higher than the maintenance costs of your own home.

For example:
- You have to get an annual gas safety check done.
- You have to have fire extinguishers and blankets and annual smoke alarm tests
- new safety regulations came in for rental properties that said hand rails had to be fitted to all stair cases so I had to get them fitted for cost of about £650
- Tenant complained about damp so had damp surveyor go out at cost of £300 for report. Turns out it was condensation caused by tenant taping over the trickle vents in all the windows and theyd also fired expandable foam into all the air bricks as they didn't want to use the central heating in winter and were trying to get of any draft.
- Cost me £500 to have the air bricks unblocked. They then disputed their bond not being returned and the tribunal ruled that I could only deduct the £500 repair cost from the bond and not the £300 survey fee...I was like HOW? If they hadn't done that I wouldnt have had to get the damp surveyor in the first place?
- Another tenant moved out and left a cracked window and claimed it cracked in the frost. Again tribunal said I couldnt deduct from bond.
So rent has to account for the maintenance of the property not the market value.
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I understand. But the purpose would be to make it unviable. To drive the properties out of the private sector into the public. The rent cap is just a device to make that happen, whilst creating a bit of a short term ramp off for the effected individuals
 
Gutter Boy said:
I understand. But the purpose would be to make it unviable. To drive the properties out of the private sector into the public. The rent cap is just a device to make that happen, whilst creating a bit of a short term ramp off for the effected individuals
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Ok but if you drive millions of unviable (I.e. loss making) rental properties into the public sector, who is going to pay for that?
 
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Rorschach said:
They are all in bed with Israel, to their shame.
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Israel is difficult. There is an argument as I've said that Israel has had to live with aggression from Gaza for years, that rockets are constantly fired from Gaza at Israeli cities and they don't do much as Israel has constructed the most ridiculous air defence system in the world. All this time Israel has been asked by the west and allies to exercise self-restraint. "You're safe, we supply you with equipment, you don't have to do anything." Then 7/7 happens and the response is awful. But the attack was awful to the point of being intolerable. On the flip side Israel have tolerated illegal settlers and the Palestinians have been living without recognition of a free state and in poor conditions for decades.

Peace is not going to be achived by not engaging with and supporting Israel. Actually the route to peace is pretty much exactly the strategy adopted by Lammy - we will continue to support you only if you cease the violence and if not we will recognise a Palestinian state and start supporting them more and more.

The other aspect to this that I've said on here is that the yanks are balls deep in israel and while that remains the case we (and europe) have to walk a tightrope. Bit like with Ukraine and actually particularly because of Russia/China. You've seen renewed Russian aggression in Europe backed by China who have assembled and paraded a HUGE military capability in the last few years. America is the only country that can offer competing defence guarantees and protection against that.

I think the praise i have in terms of Lammy's work is he has not done a bad job at all of navigating these various spinning plates, pushing a Palestinian cause while not excluding Israel, building bridges with Europe while keeping the yanks on side, closing a trade deal with India and getting a preferential tariff deal with Trump.
 
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Silly McSilly Face said:
Israel is difficult. There is an argument as I've said that Israel has had to live with aggression from Gaza for years, that rockets are constantly fired from Gaza at Israeli cities and they don't do much as Israel has constructed the most ridiculous air defence system in the world. All this time Israel has been asked by the west and allies to exercise self-restraint. "You're safe, we supply you with equipment, you don't have to do anything." Then 7/7 happens and the response is awful. But the attack was awful to the point of being intolerable. On the flip side Israel have tolerated illegal settlers and the Palestinians have been living without recognition of a free state and in poor conditions for decades.

Peace is not going to be achived by not engaging with and supporting Israel. Actually the route to peace is pretty much exactly the strategy adopted by Lammy - we will continue to support you only if you cease the violence and if not we will recognise a Palestinian state and start supporting them more and more.

The other aspect to this that I've said on here is that the yanks are balls deep in israel and while that remains the case we (and europe) have to walk a tightrope. Bit like with Ukraine and actually particularly because of Russia/China. You've seen renewed Russian aggression in Europe backed by China who have assembled and paraded a HUGE military capability in the last few years. America is the only country that can offer competing defence guarantees and protection against that.

I think the praise i have in terms of Lammy's work is he has not done a bad job at all of navigating these various spinning plates, pushing a Palestinian cause while not excluding Israel, building bridges with Europe while keeping the yanks on side, closing a trade deal with India and getting a preferential tariff deal with Trump.
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Small posts please. I have adhd.
 
Silly McSilly Face said:
My guess is that Starmer has seen Rayner's balls up as an opportunity to get rid of the last of the "lefty" types and install more of his wet lettuce centrist types in a bid to prop up his own position in the party.
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Better.

Not centrist though. Right wing really. At this point in scooby-doo Delma rips off Starmers mask to reveal jenrick or <insert some Tory clam here>
 
Silly McSilly Face said:
Israel is difficult. There is an argument as I've said that Israel has had to live with aggression from Gaza for years, that rockets are constantly fired from Gaza at Israeli cities and they don't do much as Israel has constructed the most ridiculous air defence system in the world. All this time Israel has been asked by the west and allies to exercise self-restraint. "You're safe, we supply you with equipment, you don't have to do anything." Then 7/7 happens and the response is awful. But the attack was awful to the point of being intolerable. On the flip side Israel have tolerated illegal settlers and the Palestinians have been living without recognition of a free state and in poor conditions for decades.

Peace is not going to be achived by not engaging with and supporting Israel. Actually the route to peace is pretty much exactly the strategy adopted by Lammy - we will continue to support you only if you cease the violence and if not we will recognise a Palestinian state and start supporting them more and more.

The other aspect to this that I've said on here is that the yanks are balls deep in israel and while that remains the case we (and europe) have to walk a tightrope. Bit like with Ukraine and actually particularly because of Russia/China. You've seen renewed Russian aggression in Europe backed by China who have assembled and paraded a HUGE military capability in the last few years. America is the only country that can offer competing defence guarantees and protection against that.

I think the praise i have in terms of Lammy's work is he has not done a bad job at all of navigating these various spinning plates, pushing a Palestinian cause while not excluding Israel, building bridges with Europe while keeping the yanks on side, closing a trade deal with India and getting a preferential tariff deal with Trump.
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Just economically sanction Israel until they retreat to 1967 borders.

Pretty much the same approach as to Russia, except China wont prop them up.
 
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