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@DavidMcGregorBN What breakfast clubs, this is meant to start in April. No word on how it will be funded it’s a universal offer open to all families -who will staff this ?

People ask what Labour has actually done. Try telling a renter facing a no-fault eviction that ending Section 21 doesn’t matter. Try telling a struggling family that breakfast clubs don’t matter. Some of us know these things change lives because we’ve lived it.

@katesineed @LKPleasehold @CommonsHCLG @tpi_online I know there are calls for regulation of MAs in other countries, but UK regulators of every industry I can think of have failed consumers / patients miserably. That's why flat leaseholders must have right to hire and fire MA on annual contracts = most effective regulation.

Nigel Farage trying to avoid blame for supporting Trumpflation.

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Farage hates this video of him revealing his plans to sell off the NHS. It would be a shame if it went viral again... 🫢

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Well here's an update on the situation... Mortgage paid off. Security not included. I live in a flat I 'own'. I pay high service charges for a very modest home. No mortgage. No bank. No lender breathing down my neck. And yet by the end of April, I’m expected to find £9,000 immediately - with another ~£4,000 due in September. Not for something new. Not for something optional. But for historic costs tied to a building I bought in good faith - assuming it was structurally sound, properly converted, and fit to live in. I tried to be reasonable. I offered a repayment plan. £50 a month. ON TOP of £425 service charge for an unsaleable equity shedding cupboard in Bolton. £50 a month? Not perfect - but real. Sustainable. Honest. The response? A flat rejection. Pun intended. Not adjusted. Not discussed. Not negotiated. Rejected. Because the lease says payment is due “forthwith” - immediately - and anything else simply doesn’t fit the system. And then comes the part that really tells you everything. I’m told they can’t offer a repayment plan because: • They’re not authorised to provide credit • And doing so would breach their charitable aims Read that again. Helping someone spread payments over time - to avoid financial collapse - would somehow conflict with being a charitable organisation. So instead, the "charitable" approach is: • Demand the full amount immediately • Reject any realistic repayment proposal • Proceed with debt recovery if unpaid • And ultimately threaten forfeiture of the lease Debt Collection first. Then ultimately Yep - forfeiture, they've mentioned we'd be in breach of the lease. So yes they can do that. The legal mechanism where you can lose your home entirely. A home you’ve already paid for. There’s even a quiet warning built in. Interest at 3% above base rate hasn’t been applied yet…but might be from April if the balance isn’t cleared. So the pressure isn’t just financial. It’s escalating. Timed. Engineered to close in. And this is all happening within a system where service charges are only supposed to be payable if they are “reasonably incurred.” Well, That’s the theory. The reality? Years after major works. After tribunal proceedings. After residents have already stretched themselves to breaking point… We’re still here. Surviving from week to week - just. Still paying. Still absorbing the consequences of decisions we never made. These are leaseholders who had to wait til pay day to find £100 towards our legal defence. This is the part people don’t understand about leasehold until they live it. You don’t really own your home. You carry the liability. You absorb the risk. You fund the failures. But control? That sits somewhere else entirely. And you feel it flex. It reduces every week to a fight or flight response. Right now, the cost of simply remaining in my so-called mortgage-free flat is pushing towards the equivalent of a second mortgage. Except unlike a mortgage: • No negotiation. • No flexibility. • No safety net. Just a demand. • £9,000 by April. • £4,000 by September. Mortgage: paid. Security: none. If you want to see how detached decision-making can become from real human impact… Try being a leaseholder.

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Starmer’s Labour, Reform and the Conservatives all want to “rip up the red tape” for house builders. It would make instances like this the norm! Scary.

@1950sLibrarian @JohnWest_JAWS Dan’s new build home needs to be demolished which would leave him with a debt ( the cost of his mortgage ) and homeless. No one wants to help him with this. It is leasehold which means he has less consumer rights than when buying a kettle !

@Cmathraven @JohnWest_JAWS None of that makes sense.

Erm... He bought the flat 7 years ago? What does this have to do with Kier Starmer?

@1950sLibrarian @JohnWest_JAWS Research leasehold. Dans flat is a new build leasehold. Starmer is his MP publicised his case before becoming PM now won’t touch it. Dan paid £850,000 for a home but has NO consumer rights

Already 92k views and counting in three hours. This is a must watch and so damning! @mtpennycook @TanDhesi @deirdrecostigan

A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

@1950sLibrarian @JohnWest_JAWS He may as well have as it could nt be worse.You have more consumer rights buying a kettle than a home. Fair ???

@JohnWest_JAWS Kier did the rendering?

@_DundeePerfect_ @JohnWest_JAWS He bought a property brand new which just 7 years later is falling apart ( watch the video the walls shake when he leans on them and there are gaps he can put his arm through) it is now worth £0 no consumer rights. Ask yourself if you would think this was fair if it was you ?

@JohnWest_JAWS Guy appears a bit of a prat.... it was Michael Gove he targeted three years ago, there is images of this property going as far back as 2010 showing huge cracks. hamhigh.co.uk/news/23877739.…

@HiraethPolitics @JohnWest_JAWS watch the video, he paid £850,000 for the flat. He can shake the walls and put his hand through the gaps in the walls the flat is now valued at £0! no redress from the builders , no consumer rights , fair ????

@JohnWest_JAWS Did he not have a survey done before he bought the place? Secondly any disputes such as these are the matters for the courts. You can expect sitting ministers to adjudicate civil disputes. He needs legal advice and he needs to buy a garden gate 👍

That's insanity.

@MattLismore This is the point I’ve been trying to make. I’m not anti-Starmer or anti house building, I’m anti-ruin people’s lives. I could’ve been an asset to @UKLabour if they’d been willing to learn from my case and make necessary changes to protect home buyers.