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Comment on: Hughes warns benefit cap will ‘break up families’
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The problem with HB is also the disincentive to work caused by the high marginal rate of taxation effect. In basic terms, HB and CTB (Council Tax) benefit withdrawals when earnings are taken into account can see you lose anything between 65 p and 80 p in the pound.
Nobody pays income tax at these levels. One of the principle justifications as to why nobody - not even the rich bankers - pays tax at this level is the disincentive. No surprise then that people don't want to work full time and retain in some cases less than 20p in the pound. Would you ? -
Comment on: DWP anger at defeat of bedroom tax
"Melvin Bone | 16/12/2011 10:07 am
Can you define 'sub-human'?"
Yes. The tories, and anyone who supports such blatant attacks on the poor and vulnerable whilst letting the banks off scot free and proposing tax cuts for the rich. Arguably the Lib Dems are worse, because though I hate to credit the tories with anything, at least they believe in these attacks. The libs say they don't, whilst propping them up and allowing them to do it. Which is why they're going to be out of power for another 75 years come the next election (nice one Nick). -
Comment on: DWP anger at defeat of bedroom tax
"Melvin Bone | 16/12/2011 10:07 am
Can you define 'sub-human'?"
Yes. The tories, and anyone who supports such blatant attacks on the poor and vulnerable whilst letting the banks off scot free and proposing tax cuts for the rich. Arguably the Lib Dems are worse, because though I hate to credit the tories with anything, at least they believe in these attacks. The libs say they don't, whilst propping them up and allowing them to do it. Which is why they're going to be out of power for another 75 years come the next election (nice one Nick). -
Comment on: Tatchell offers defence for gay marriage row worker
What do you mean by "Christian Country" and "Head of the Church" ?
I suppose you mean the Queen and the Church of England ?
COE is not the established church outwith England.
Kindly remember that at Wales and Northern Ireland and, at least for the immediate present Scotland, are part of the UK. Neither the Principality, the Province nor Scotland - as the other party in the treaty of union of the nation states of Scotland and England - has the COE as it's established church.
Same re the Courts - though England and Wales is a unified judiciary, Northern Ireland is not and Scots law has not ever been. -
Comment on: Tatchell offers defence for gay marriage row worker
What do you mean by "Christian Country" and "Head of the Church" ?
I suppose you mean the Queen and the Church of England ?
COE is not the established church outwith England.
Kindly remember that at Wales and Northern Ireland and, at least for the immediate present Scotland, are part of the UK. Neither the Principality, the Province nor Scotland - as the other party in the treaty of union of the nation states of Scotland and England - has the COE as it's established church.
Same re the Courts - though England and Wales is a unified judiciary, Northern Ireland is not and Scots law has not ever been.
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Posted in: Can the private sector fill the housing needs of the average and low paid worker?
It's really simple. If it could, there would be no need for Council Housing or RSL's. This sector meets a certain need - often at highly inflated rents and sometimes in poor condition.
It cannot meet all of the needs of the average or low paid worker as there is insufficient supply in the sector. It is in it's interests not to promote oversupply or the (sometimes massive) profits reduce. Hence the requirement for Council's and RSL's.
Actually, maybe the answer is, the sector could, if it wanted to, meet these needs but it is ultimately not in it's interests to do so.
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Posted in: Can the private sector fill the housing needs of the average and low paid worker?
In most cases, clearly not given the price differential, otherwise there would be no need for the (increasingly less)affordable housing provided by Councils and RSL's.
But the real story of the Condumb coalition is that they are pulling the classic squeeze play. 80% market rents and HB caps. A lot of people will be caught in the perfect storm - can't afford 80% market rent rate; no HB top up available. The CIH needs to raise it's game (from a state of torpor) and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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Posted in: Pregnant and living in Housing associaiotn bedsit...Advice needed!
I feel really sorry for your situation but, to answer one part of your enquiry, your landlord is not legally obliged to house you. It is not, at a bvasic level, responsible for the fact that you are having a child and can only allocate properties that it actually has available.
At the moment most allocation policies are based on assessed need and also take into account time waiting. That may not assist you; however, recent debate has been about a move away from strict needs based allocations policies only to taking into account, amongst other things, people needing to move for work related reasons and so on. So that might (or might not) help in the future.
Shamefully - for both Labour and the Tories - years of underfunding in the public housing sector means that your enquiry is regrettably not at all uncommon, in fact across the UK there are thousands in the same position as you, and many in even more pressured circumstances. But, housing just doesn't have the profile; the public and the politicians just do not care enough about it and people like you and many others, who either have no home or struggle to afford accomodation which is unsuitable.
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Posted in: TSA Standards
Almost right Kass (crikey).
In very serious cases, it is possible for a tenant to complain without having shown that they have been through the landlord's complaints policy. Generally, the expectation is that a tenant can show that the landlord has been put on notice of the issues complained of and given reasonable opportunity to resolve them - or explain why it does not intend to.
There are good reasons for this process. There is no evidence otherwise that a matter has been reported. It might be that officers accidentally - or deliberately in the case of persistent "difficult" customers - forget. That's not right, but let's face it, it happens. And of course some times customers are a little economical with the truth and say they have raised things many times when in fact they haven't. Either many times, or at all.
Sometimes though, notice of a problem is "imputed." Essentially, a landlord cannot deny facts within it's own knowledge or matters it could reasonably be expected to know of. An example might be if a landlord has records of monthly visits to the common area of a block of flats. If, for example, works were clearly outstanding after several of these visits, it would not be a defence to say "noone has complained so we haven't fixed it" - they are on imputed notice of the requirement to do works from having visited, and because they are property specialists, are expected to have known the works needed doing.
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Posted in: The World Cup
Kass, what on earth are you gibbering on about now ? You are really nothing much more than a whinger, who sprouts meaningless drivel hypocritically. The pure dictionary definition of the word "cant."
I was drawing attention to a poster who had said that the feminisation of the housing officer meant that women were unable to deal with ASB cases. It seems you must agree, in highlighting my reply which actually said that I did not agree, women were more than able of handling this successfully, and then in a moment of levity I added "where I work my female colleagues can turn a burbery ned into a jelly at 12 yards with a glance."
If you must quopte, remember to be accurate and actually give the context. Otherwise, you are guilty of hypocritical cant, defined above.
That of course only really confirms what many of us have long thought, i.e. Kass = cant.