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Comment on: Council backs fast-track eviction plans
It does seem to be open warfare on the low-waged doesn't it?
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Comment on: Council backs fast-track eviction plans
It does seem to be open warfare on the low-waged doesn't it?
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Comment on: Mother and son evicted for messy garden
Nara I think it's more to the case should a supposedly public-benefit company be allowed to dump a multi-thousand pound problem onto the taxpayer because it's got a bit of a weed problem.
No report from the tenant, no idea if Ms Turner has vulnerabilities, a quick Google search shows the exact same text used in multiple places to report the story, suggesting that it's a cut and paste job on a KHT press release, so unlikely to be the most balanced piece of reporting we'll be seeing. -
Comment on: Mother and son evicted for messy garden
Nara I think it's more to the case should a supposedly public-benefit company be allowed to dump a multi-thousand pound problem onto the taxpayer because it's got a bit of a weed problem.
No report from the tenant, no idea if Ms Turner has vulnerabilities, a quick Google search shows the exact same text used in multiple places to report the story, suggesting that it's a cut and paste job on a KHT press release, so unlikely to be the most balanced piece of reporting we'll be seeing. -
Comment on: Labour MPs launch attack on housing associations
they may be right but that's it lads, you go right to the heart of what's really uppermost in the electorate's concerns these days. Good to see the old finger on the pulse and the long awaited Labour fight back there.
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silly question
It's astounding us that we don't know this - must be having a collective senior moment:
All new tenancies issued by an RSL are starter tenancies yes? Shorthold by any other name. Here's the thing
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Posted in: Threats of Possession notice to force me to remove tree/play house
Do keep in mind that if your landlord did give permission and god forbid your child fell out and was seriously injured, there may be a substantial liabilities claim against the landlord. We had this with gym equipment in a shared cellar - shared between residents, all responsible professional adults, all signed an offered contract to clean, maintain and keep it safe. Sorry, we'd still be liable if anything went wrong and someone got injured, had to turn it down and make them get rid of it. They weren't happy but what can you do?.
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Posted in: SECURE TENANCY
Of course you could ask what would happen if your parents tragically died while they were still contributing to a mortgage leaving you to pay the whole thing and you fell into arrears...
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Posted in: Yobs with Dogs: Another "needs" based allocation outcome
The ones who think that effect A is caused by cause B when in fact the two are only accidentally related. And entertain a deep seated and prejudical hatred of a large swathe of the population.
As for dismissing the due process of law as what, a failure of an over-liberal state? God give me strength. No, of course not, let's be done with it and snatch people from their homes in the dead of night and convict them because we just don't like them. Hell why bother with courts, plenty of trees around Islington. -
Posted in: Domestic violence
Hope I'm not over sharing here but I am myself the survivor of violent abuse by a female partner. It is very different to how I imagine male on female violence to be - she was a good half a head shorter than me, hugely weaker and frankly rubbish at hitting people. But that didn't stop her trying, lots of times, and I still have physical scars from the times she got lucky. Old-fashioned type that I am I couldn't hit back of course, but I managed to get rid of her and the woman is now well and truly gone and by hell she is staying that way.
I didn't need a refuge, or a hostel. Unless she knifed me in my sleep (which she threatened to do more than once) I was never in danger of being seriously injured (though I wish the same could be said of the television she smashed. Or my laptop - IBM thinkpad, that stung - or the full length mirror she threw to the ground, splinters of which I'm still finding to this day), what I needed was for people to take me seriously, not snigger and not immediately assume that this freak of a woman had somehow been provoked by me. Abusers aren't 'provoked' by anybody; the only person to blame for what they do is them. They do what they do for kicks and giggles and what they do is criminal whether they're able to beat the snot out of someone or no.
At this stage I have no idea what form the concrete answer is. There is a problem, it needs a solution. She was a bitter unhappy woman with the anger management skills of a pitbull. And, fortunately for me, the upper body strength of a budgerigar. But it can only be a matter of time before she tries it on someone who *is* willing to hit women, and I don't wish that even on her.
At this early and undeveloped stage of my thinking my feeling is that, for the most part - there are female black belts who could wipe the floor with most men - female violence does more harm to the perpetrator than the intended victim. It's a therapy issue, not a criminal one. At this early and undeveloped stage....
Oh - and while we're over sharing an amusing postscript - she did admit she had a problem, she wept and begged for forgiveness. And managed to get onto an anger management course. Which she dropped out of. Because it was making her angry. Gotta laugh.... -
Posted in: Yobs with Dogs: Another "needs" based allocation outcome
Now you see that's just crafty conflation again - criminal types live in social housing therefore social housing's to blame. Or social housing's too good for the likes of them (even though you've said previously you want to privatise it) so they should go and live somewhere else and leave the social housing to 'good folk'. Which would presumably dump all the undesirables into the private sector that you see as the saviour of housing. And what would your argument be then I wonder?
As for hurling insults you dismiss anyone who'd disagree with you as an 'extreme lefty'? When you've already made it clear that you regard that as an insult? Pot kettle sir, kettle pot.