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The current government - bitching, and whinging Thread

Discussion in 'Current Affairs' started by cbk61639601, Sep 3, 2012.

  1. StretfordEnd

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    Long overdue.

    The fact we've seen examples of landlords rushing to kick tenants out recently is all the more reason to introduce these controls. Scummy pricks.

    Landlords rush to force out tenants ahead of Section 21 ban as eviction notices hit eight-year high - Property Industry Eye

    Landlords are moving fast to force out tenants as the government’s ban on Section 21 evictions looms, campaigners have warned, with government figures revealing a spike in evictions by bailiffs.

    Labour has pledged to abolish Section 21 evictions, with the ban expected to be implemented by next summer.

    And Ministry of Justice figures showed that, between July and September, 8,425 households in England were served with Section 21 notices – an eight year high.

    The figure marked an increase on the corresponding period a year earlier and came as 2,830 households were evicted by bailiffs, a 23% hike on last year.
     
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    The usual suspects are shockingly silent on the reports of both economic growth and falling inflation :whistle:whistle:whistle
     
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    I can feel a graph being posted imminently
     
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    Nor this: Yvette Cooper announces urgent national review on grooming gangs

    Ministers have ordered an urgent national review of the scale of grooming gangs and will also help councils run their own local inquiries into the issue, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has announced.

    While ministers have faced sustained pressure to order a new national inquiry into the gangs, officials stress that the review announced to MPs by Cooper is not this, simply a rapid assessment of what is known about the extent of such offences.

    The review, to be led by Louise Casey – who was tasked just a fortnight ago with leading a wider inquiry into social care – is intended to be completed in three months, and provide a national picture of what is known.

    The Home Office and Downing Street have not definitively ruled out another national inquiry, and it is possible that Casey’s review could lead to this. However, the preference remains for more rapid, local exercises, coupled with more help for victims and survivors.

    Cooper unveiled a series of other new initiatives including an extra £10m in funding to tackle the gangs and support victims, and support for councils to run local inquiries, advised by Tom Crowther KC, who led such an investigation in Telford.

    Another change will be widening the remit of the Child Sexual Abuse Review Panel, run jointly by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the Crown Prosecution Service, so victims can seek a review of their cases even if they took place after 2013.

    Other new measures include Cooper working with the NPCC to push chief constables in England and Wales to look at past cases, and to improve the recording of data on the ethnicity of offenders.

    Cooper and Downing Street have resisted calls for a national inquiry, saying their belief – one they say is shared by a majority of victims and experts – is to instead prioritise implementing the recommendations from the existing national inquiry, led by Prof Alexis Jay, which reported in 2022.

    Cooper announced that ministers would lay out a timetable for implementing Jay’s recommendations by Easter.

    The issue of the gangs has been catapulted back into public consciousness after Elon Musk, the billionaire and Donald Trump aide, called for a new inquiry, in often misleading posts on X, the social media platform he owns.
     
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    0.1% is bugger all on both counts.
     
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    Well that was a surprise to me.
     
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    Just Tories in disguise.

     
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    So when the Tories f##k up they are Tories, and when labour f##k up they are.....er....Tories ?
     
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    Martyn Lewis did something on this before Christmas so I'm working from memory, but my understanding of this is that there are two cases working their way through the courts.

    An initial case related to Discretionary Compensation Agreements (DCAs) where lenders allowed car dealerships to artificially increase interest rates on loans in order to earn more commission, without knowledge of the person buying the car. That ruling said that if you took out a loan that included a DCA then you were entitled to claim compensation back. DCAs were banned a few years back. I could be wrong, but I don't think this is the case that Reeves is pressuring the Supreme Court on because not all (and not even a majority) of finance deals included a DCA and so the potential compensation bill is not that big.

    The second larger case was basically along the lines that if you weren't told that commission was being paid to the dealership (even those taken out since DCAs were banned), you were entitled to claim compensation because you weren't in full possession of facts when you took out the loan. I think this is the one Reeves will be looking at; £30bn is a huge sum of money and if the ruling is upheld the risk is that in future it will become a) harder and b) more expensive to get car finance as lenders try to reduce their exposure to future claims against them.
     
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    Not really, it just requires lenders to be up front and honest :laugh: with their customers. Anyone borrowing money for a major purchase is entitled to know what it costs for the credit, not just a headline rate and a raft of sneaky additional charges hidden in the small print.
     
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    Entirely predictable, every other week there's some sort of scandal surrounding these clowns. They stink.

    The lefties on here still want to pretend that it's not a uniparty and they're just as bad as each other.
     
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    Yep, you seem to be up to speed here.
     
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    Bloody hell, I’m probably going to have to stop reading this thread as well or up my intake of herbs. :enditall
     
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    I'm not sure how much we should read into this poll, for two reasons. One is that this isn't one of the main polling organisations that we tend to hear from most frequently, namely a YouGov or Survation, and from what I read from people who monitor the polls far more than I do, this organisation consistently suggests Reform are polling higher than others. But, so far at least, the apparent surge of opinion poll support doesn't appear to be being translated into measurable electoral success.

    Reform UK has picked up 7 seats from 184 by-elections since July

    We'll probably get a clearer idea of where Reform really are after the May elections but there is absolutely no doubt that a party whose electoral performance has been on such a minor scale to this point should not be getting the exposure and airtime that it is.
     
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    Labour are disgusting, how hasn't this clown been sacked already?
     
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    She was investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Committee like 5 years ago regarding that.
     
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    Rachel from Accounts should be sacked too.
     

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