@EdwardBittner16 @_Wilsonpilled_ You still had leasehold plus share of the freehold, which briefly achieved the same thing just with extra steps.
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Jonathan Lancaster
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@_Wilsonpilled_ Learning for the first time that the UK (only in England and Wales) only allowed the equivalent of a US condominium (legal since 1968) in 2002 titled Commonhold -- honestly a neater word than Condominium. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonhold
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It’s the service charge and the leasehold system, that’s it. Nobody actually gives a fuck about how they look and the average Twitter YIMBY aren’t the people buying flats in Nine Elms or Canary Wharf or even Royal Arsenal
Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall
London has built lots of flats…but few people want to buy them Since 2014, some 20,000 flats have been completed in Wandsworth. But nearly 40% of modern flats there have sold at a loss in the last 5 years archive.is/A3rfy
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@MRJKilcoyne Scope to add other cities? Appreciate don’t need 300 comparators, but I’d like to compare where I live to the list you’ve currently got!
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How much is your salary worth and what does it feel like in other cities?
Let me know what you'd change or add, or make your own. Have a play.
salaryworth.netlify.app
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@2D0XPS Juries are often extremely reluctant to convict bad drivers where the penalty would be severe. Careless driving offences with comparatively slap on the wrist consequences exist essentially to avoid juries acquitting bad drivers entirely.
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Why is the maximum sentence for ‘causing death by careless driving’ 5yrs when the maximum sentence for gross negligence manslaughter is life?
If you're going to accidentally kill someone because you were being stupid you better make sure you do it with a car.
Adam Tranter@adamtranter
In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@BloodyPolitics @SandyofSuffolk liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool… Liverpool has communal bins for terraced streets rather than everyone having individual bins and no where to put them. Been a few years now and works reasonably well.
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I'm going from two big bins and a recycling trolley to FIVE big bins. Where in God's name do they expect people to store these plastic giants? Probs why Council Tax just shot up by £20 per month.😐 #grumblegrumble
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@DonaldPond6 @hiltonholloway Most of that will be YQ/fuel surcharge set and pocketed by the airline- there’s no justification to put it under taxes and surcharges.
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Perhaps the greatest cover-up of the modern age is that the reason we have a cost of living crisis is largely because taxes on everything are so damned high.
Finumus@Finumus1
Why is everything mostly tax?
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@benn_elisbenn @DrSdeG It mean English to the equivalent of level of e.g. a level French, not that they can pass A Level English Language/Literature.
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@DrSdeG As you say few born in this country would reach that standard. Does the English A level now have an oral exam? It used to be mostly English Literature in A level English, which I didn’t do.
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Most people born here don't do that. The average reading age is equivalent to age 9-14
That's what information leaflets for NHS etc need to be based upon.
Home Office@ukhomeoffice
From next year, migrants wishing to stay in the UK permanently will need to speak, listen, read and write in English to an A-level equivalent standard. It is right that those who wish to build a life here work hard, contribute and are able to play a full part in British life.
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@fergustp @d5_rss @tomhfh @GrumpyOldM79813 Except that octopus eats vast majority of the saving. I looked at the figures and I was no better off using the salary sacrifice scheme vs a normal lease.
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@d5_rss @tomhfh @GrumpyOldM79813 Octopus is losing a fortune on them, then again with salary sacrifice the tax payer is paying 40-50% of peoples car & insurance payments so great tax dodge
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The new BYD flash charger can use 1,500kW of power to recharge a battery from 10 per cent to 97 per cent in just nine minutes.
All the drawbacks of electric cars are being eliminated one by one.
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@speeednet @AvonandsomerRob It doesn’t - it’s basically economy 7 remarketed to EVs, but equally suitable for storage heaters, topping up home batteries or doing late night laundry etc.
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@AvonandsomerRob How can Octopus tell that the power is going to an EV?
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With an Octopus Energy EV tariff, you can charge your car with 250 miles of range for £6, using cheap overnight rates of 7p/kwh.
That's around 275 miles per gallon of petrol, equivalent.
Why is there still a resistance to Electric Vehicles?
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@j_l_marsden UK Gov generally do charge passengers/their insurers for repatriation flights.
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If that’s your argument then no migrants should be helped.
See dingy migrant for example.
At least the people in Dubai are actually fleeing a war and not France.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
Susanna Reid: "Brits have moved to places like Dubai, potentially.. to avoid paying tax.. if they need rescuing.. should they pay for their own evacuation, because if they're avoiding paying tax then they're avoiding paying into public services, like the govt coming to get you"
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@jayjay749 @PaulEmbery @northerness But that would miss an opportunity for performative virtue signaling
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@PaulEmbery @northerness Surely it would be better to start 15 minutes later 🤷♂️
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I am a firm believer in freedom of religion, but I do think that if you've paid 50 quid to watch a top-level football match, you are probably entitled to feel a bit peeved when the game is stopped after just 13 minutes – completely outside of normal protocols – to accommodate the rituals of a minority religious belief system.
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@AlbertZ19206434 @moving_charlie Right to manage - 50% of leaseholders can band together to form their own management co. Freeholder will drag it out though, and in practice many tenants aren’t motivated enough to go through with it.
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@moving_charlie Is there any way to contain the uncontrollable service charges?
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Is there any wonder people don’t trust leasehold any more?
They’re not all this bad, but when you don’t know which ones are or aren’t, many will decide the only safe option is to avoid completely
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@FArkonus @Cr7Godbrand But if a gender split develops, they’ll be forced to pay the roles equally, just like Next with warehouse/retail workers and Birmingham council’s dinner ladies/binmen.
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The problem here is they need to do it more officially. Have it linked with the training for dealing with violent patients and if you are registered as being able to cope with such patients you get a pay increase for doing so.
Then you aren't paying the men more, you are paying the people that deal with those patients more and tying it to additional training. That training would need to only qualify people that can actually deal with it. Which is likely going to be 99% men.
Problem solved.
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My issue with this post is this: why didn’t the women ever complain to their bosses about the sexism of assigning only men to care for violent patients?
Why didn’t the women fight for equality by also asking to be given violent patients? If it were money or promotion, they would have fough for it.
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@StevensBeavNVol @grok @HwsEleutheroi @ksorbs Enforcement officer (not police) on commission for issuing fines.
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@grok @HwsEleutheroi @ksorbs What was the rationale or reason for the fine? If a leaf blew into someone’s mouth, what would they do besides spit it out? I don’t even understand what is happening right now.
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@ValMThatcher @Davidpr52119342 @CallumCMason @TheIFS Lowering the interest rate slightly would only benefit those who go on to earn very large salaries and are on track to pay their loans off. As you say, problem is threshold has been lowered in real terms worsening cost of living.
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@Davidpr52119342 @CallumCMason @TheIFS The thing is it wouldn’t make much difference to many - given your example 50,000 interest over 30 years is an interest rate of 3.1%. Cutting the plan 2 interest rate would make no difference whatsoever to a person with that loan. The problem is the freezing of the threshold.
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A lot of people replying to this telling me the interest rate is actually good?
Doubt many know that for the last cohort of Plan 2ers @TheIFS says the long run issuing of the loans will be negative i.e. the Gov will be making profit on them! Details here: wonkhe.com/blogs/graduate…
Callum Mason@CallumCMason
When plan 2 student loans were introduced, the message was: the interest was very high but the trade was that you wouldn’t have to pay till you earned a good salary. Over time, politicians have slowly brought the salary threshold down in real terms + done zero about the interest
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@Squirrel_nn @TJiMTS It shifts properties from the rental market to the owner occupier market. While this may reduce purchase prices, it’ll likely increase rental prices. Benefits those looking to buy soon, worse for long term renters.
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A landlord collects £1,200/month rent
Pays £1,000/month mortgage interest
= Real profit: £200/month.
But HMRC doesn't see it that way.
Section 24 means higher-rate taxpayers can only claim 20% of mortgage interest as a tax credit, not the full deduction.
So they're taxed at 40% on £1,200, then get 20% credit on £1,000 back.
Tax bill: £3,360/year on a rental "profit" of £2,400.
They're paying more in tax than they actually make.
This is why so many landlords are incorporating or selling up.
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@bswud No one wants to hear the peppa pig theme on loop while they’re having a meal out. That’s not antinatalism, that’s just people opposing antisocial behaviour.
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This is very important. What I find particularly offensive is when nonparents opine that they would never let their children watch an iPad in a restaurant, or stuff like that. This is why people don't have children.
Phoebe Arslanagić-Little@PMArslanagic
It's fine that you don't breastfeed. It's fine that your children watch TV. It's fine that your children share a bedroom. If we want people to carry on becoming parents, then it's important that we avoid putting unnecessary and escalating pressure on mums and dads. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/0…
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@Nyct0phil3_x Go to actual pharmacy and speak to the pharmacist on duty, they can sell you more. They’ll have boxes of 32 tablets. Law says can sell up 100 pills at a time. Two box limit is just guidance for general sale.
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Lmfao I can only buy *one* bottle of calpol and one adult paracetamol 16 pill pack because of UK suicide prevention laws. My entire household of 6 has the flu and I also need ibuprofen and the kids are different age ranges meaning I need both infant and 6+. Thanks Keir!
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I'm told all of these new atriums (sorry, atria) are 100% necessary to stop the building from falling into the Thames
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: MPs and peers must vote on two options to restore the Palace of Westminster 1: Fully move-out for 19–24 years (£11-15bn) 2: Phased works over 38–61 years, in which the Lords move out to a conference centre and MPs use their chamber for 2 years from 2041 (£19-39bn)
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@MrJoKeR604 I’ve no skin in this game, but my first thought was it looks like the cover of a fantasy novel.
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@MonkEmma @tecchiegirl The permit system admits cars are often the only practical option or they’d be bus/999 only. Instead the council decides which journeys are worthy. Absurdly, city residents w/ best public transport get the most permits while those further out with fewer options are penalised.
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@MonkEmma @tecchiegirl They’ll make many car journeys impractical. Most people already only drive when walking/cycling/bus isn’t viable. Soon, trips outside your neighbourhood or to the city centre won’t just mean traffic, you’ll need a permit. That is a real restriction, and it’s fair to say so.
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Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
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