Apoica
London
On moonlit nights, Apoica "burst off the nest at dusk," an "explosion of activity." In forming a swarm, Apoica demonstrate a unique behavior. "They raise their metasoma and apparently release a volatile odor that 'calls' the other wasps" (Pickett and Wenzel, 2007).
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Comment on: MPs call for the right to buy to be extended
Thank you Gavin. You are of course right. The venom (thus the Apoica monicker) comes from seeing just so much system gaming going on over the years and (as an RTB leaseholder) right before my very eyes. It is infuriating yet this completely broken system is defended to the hilt by a small cabal of left wing polemicists from both within and without the "profession". These dinosaurs are part of the problem whilst switched on politicians from both sides (especially Field who represents the real 1945 Labour tradition rather than the handwringing liberal bleeding hearts of the Upper Middle Class Liberal Intellectual Elite who infiltrated and now control the party) are part of the solution.
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Comment on: MPs call for the right to buy to be extended
Thank you Gavin. You are of course right. The venom (thus the Apoica monicker) comes from seeing just so much system gaming going on over the years and (as an RTB leaseholder) right before my very eyes. It is infuriating yet this completely broken system is defended to the hilt by a small cabal of left wing polemicists from both within and without the "profession". These dinosaurs are part of the problem whilst switched on politicians from both sides (especially Field who represents the real 1945 Labour tradition rather than the handwringing liberal bleeding hearts of the Upper Middle Class Liberal Intellectual Elite who infiltrated and now control the party) are part of the solution.
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Comment on: MPs call for the right to buy to be extended
Excellent idea Davis and Field. Get on with it. Re the "even less housing for low paid workers" shibboleth, given that the entire business model of the modern HA is to take 100% benefit dependents from the council "priority need" list what room is there for these "low paid workers"? Surely none as if they had a job, they would not qualify for "priority need"? The reality is central London HA properties are chock full of benefit dependents. Their business model depends on it. The State pay the rent and the lenders know it. Far too risky to house people who actually pay their own rent isn't it? Many of London's low paid workers have to travel in from elsewhere already. I just cannot understand why benefit dependents are allocated HA or council properties in central London at all when what the capital needs is housing for workers not welfare dependents. Such is the perverse nature of "needs" based allocation...
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Comment on: MPs call for the right to buy to be extended
Excellent idea Davis and Field. Get on with it. Re the "even less housing for low paid workers" shibboleth, given that the entire business model of the modern HA is to take 100% benefit dependents from the council "priority need" list what room is there for these "low paid workers"? Surely none as if they had a job, they would not qualify for "priority need"? The reality is central London HA properties are chock full of benefit dependents. Their business model depends on it. The State pay the rent and the lenders know it. Far too risky to house people who actually pay their own rent isn't it? Many of London's low paid workers have to travel in from elsewhere already. I just cannot understand why benefit dependents are allocated HA or council properties in central London at all when what the capital needs is housing for workers not welfare dependents. Such is the perverse nature of "needs" based allocation...
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Comment on: Housing chiefs slam Shapps’ allocation comments
There was a very effective system of rationing in said Golden Age. It was called allocation on the basis of merit and it made for stable communities of working people. A far cry from the "needs" allocated crime ridden ghettos of the "something for nothing" council estate culture of today. The public loathes this and with good justification. The '77 Homeless Persons Act, and the apparatus of "needs" based allocation that followed it, should be scrapped.
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Posts (13)
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Posted in: Shared ownership repossession
Forfeiture of the lease is thankfully no longer possible without an order from the LVT. You will need a barrister. Prepare to incur costs.
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Posted in: Shared ownership repossession
DIYSO was extremely popular and should have been continued. The S/O which this thread is about concerns the HA model of S/O which is being publicised and practised now; not the co-ownership model of days gone by. The modern HA S/O model is extremely toxic to the leaseholder and this is a widely held view by LTA practionioners (at least those practionioners who do not derive the lions share of their income from the Social Housing Establishment).
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Posted in: Getting tenants to pay arrears when on HB
HA rents are far from too high. They are subsidised by the taxpayer. If you think HA rents are too high, what about market rates then?
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Posted in: Shared ownership repossession
S/O was not a widely promoted housing option until the Blair years and the decimation of RTB under Prescott. It is strongly promoted by HAs now and heavily marketed and that was not the case in the '70s and '80s. It may have existed, just as RTB existed at some very small level prior to the 1980 Housing Act, but it was far from commonplace unlike now.
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Posted in: Shared ownership repossession
S/O was practically unknown in the Thatcher period thanks to full RTB. S/O only got going after Prescott capped RTB discounts at £16k in 2005. Get your facts right Resident Lefty LibTard.