Because there won’t be any more after you state-own it all, right?

Right?

ML summary:

Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party’s online “Anonyvoter” system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.

That’s the gist to be honest.
RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren’t able to replace the stock.
The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it’s contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.

It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)

Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn’t available.

I wouldn’t lump Corbyn and Dahl together.

Dahl was a beloved children’s author, but he really did make some shit takes.

Friends had to replace a gas heater for their water radiator system and were told that there wasn’t a heat pump unit hot enough for the retrofit.

This generally means that they’d need to upgrade their radiators to accommodate a heat pump at normal temperatures.

And so long as the heat pump and radiators are appropriately sized to dump heat into the house, that shouldn’t matter.

The main issue is people with badly designed heating systems running at 70 degrees flow temperature.

When you swap over to a heat pump, the flow temperature is only supposed to be 40.

So you either need to get more water in the loop (bigger radiators) or less heat leaving the building (better insulation). And an understanding that the heat pump is supposed to heat gradually.

As for the installation cowboys…yea, it’s an absolute farce. £2k unit somehow costing £20k to install.

Oh no! If they continue down this path, nobody will want to privatise anything!

I get the feeling that in the past, the effort required to cycle self-selected people a bit.
Now with cheap assisted bikes, it’s easier than ever to become a 100KG object travelling at 20mph.
So maybe it should have more requirements, in a “greater good” kinda way.

Kinda like when drones took off (heh). The rules for how to use model aircraft needed refining, because the barrier to flying a 2KG object near an airport became much lower.

But what if the CEO is a five-star-man?

If you give people a reasonable, legal way to do things, people will generally do them.
And the odd twat doing 30mph on the pavement is much more obvious, rather than blending in with people who would otherwise be following the laws.

Honestly, I might even extend it to push bikes.

And make it so inexpensive to get the insurance that there is no excuse.

This seems like a good first step.
Move them out of the “technically illegal, but lots of people use them anyway” area, and into the “legal to use, but you have to register and carry some form of insurance”.

At least they didn’t get sent to Australia!

I look at the fees charged nowadays, and I’m convinced that if I had just finished my A-levels, I’d just go and train as a paramedic.
You still get a degree, except as it’s also an apprenticeship you get paid.

To me when someone says groomers, it puts my mind to tackling the child abusers, or anti-lgbt people accusing people of the same.

Jesus, Reach Media comment sections are a dumpster fire.

Asda, in my personal opinion, is a little crap.
It’s not as cheap as aldi/lidl, yet somehow has a worse shopping experience.
It just feels like a knock-off Morrisons nowadays. Or a UK walmart.

Yep, at least it’s not randos selling notes with “AK 47” on them for £5000.

The problem with this style of foam application, is that you cannot get to the wood to check the moisture content, without ripping down the foam (or probing through it, exacerbating any problem).
So there isn’t a way to test. And as there have been problems, the lenders won’t take the risk on any more.

Just to clarify further: Condensation management as part of insulation is half the battle, but frequently overlooked.

The problem comes where cold surfaces meet warm air, and what happens to the moisture in the air at that point.

The spray foam seals the timber in a way that it cannot be accessed from the inside, but generally a membrane in not installed on top of the wood. So warm air can still get through.

If my room is full of lovely 21 degree air, and the outside is zero, then if that air is able to get to a nice cold roof truss, it will be dropping a lot of evaporated water on the truss.
And if that wood can’t get sufficient airflow to dry out, it’ll get damp. And eventually rot.
Meanwhile, you can’t even get to the truss to look at it, because it’s covered in foam.

So the mortgaging companies are (very understandably) staying away from that potential hot potato.
You could have a house that looks absolutely fine, until the trusses start collapsing.

The ways we work around it are either ventilation (having the roof itself still vented to the outside), vapour sealing (stopping warm air from getting to the insulation), or using ventilation that breathes (water/vapour can move through it, allowing it to dry out naturally).