Reply to: Cost of renting one-bed property soars in UK

[vetran]

The UK cannot control non-EU immigration. Why would it do any better at EU immigration?

Non EU migration has been falling since its peak of 2004.

Migration Watch UK | Statistics-net-migration-statistics

EU migration is rising.

If we elected an anti immigration party tomorrow they could stop all non EU migration. They can do nothing about EU migration at all.

[AtW]

only if we can carve up non paying and vandal tenants for their Organs to repay their debts?

Like in Repo Men...

[BrilloPad]

For this reason alone, given the ceaseless torrent of immigration we will obviously have if we remain in the EU, anyone under the age of 30 and/or priced out of the property market must be completely deluded to even contemplate voting Remain.

The UK cannot control non-EU immigration. Why would it do any better at EU immigration?

[vetran]

FTFY

only if we can carve up non paying and vandal tenants for their Organs to repay their debts?

[vetran]

Immigrants are all unskilled low paid workers coming here for minimum wage jobs and handouts. I read it both here and in The Daily Express so it must be true. Is it them spending £1100 a month on rent?

they seem to manage it:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...om-east-london

Tenants were typically low-paid migrant workers or students, or trafficked foreign nationals put to work in the “hidden” economies of drugs or prostitution, he said.

“What I put it down to is London rents are so off the scale that people will live anywhere just to be able to afford to stay here. They might typically pay rent of just £200 a month. But the fact there are 15 of them in the house means the landlord is coining it.

“Last year we prosecuted a landlord who had 47 people in a property meant to house nine.”

[AtW]

Indeed. The best way would be to effectively license the landlords via a mandatory summary execution by Judge Dredd after failed annual inspection.

FTFY

[vetran]

Unfortunately councils aren't allowed to go to the courts and get someone banned from being a landlord.

They can only get them fined so it's a waste of money especially as the fines aren't that big. If the fines were big enough so properties could be seized these issues would happen less frequently.

Indeed. The best way would be to effectively license the landlords via a mandatory deposit scheme & annual inspection. A few infractions and you can't create a new rental agreement in the deposit scheme. Failure to work via the deposit scheme would be a criminal offence.

The inspections could cost say £120 a time and you would get a pass/fail + advisories. Reinspection within 7 days = £40 after that full fee. Failure to clear advisories in 3 months = 3 points. Fails = putting tenant up in hotel & getting it fixed. Intentional fails (no safety inspections or seriously poor repair) = 6 points.

[Flashman]

Nice to know we have problems and "real" problems.

The "real" problem was some complete chunt changing our gold for Euros. Can't think who that was - can somebody remind me? Oh, wait, doesn't matter. I remember. It was Gordon Brown.

Within the Labour party, the mood is bleak. “We are sleepwalking to losing the damn thing,” lamented one senior source. One frontbencher returned from canvassing and announced to his office: “It’s just like the general election. The polls say it’ll be fine but every doorstep someone tells you to f*** off.”

Voted Labour all the way through the 90's. But any last shred of respect I had for that party has gone now

[The_Equalizer]

Immigrants are all unskilled low paid workers coming here for minimum wage jobs and handouts. I read it both here and in The Daily Express so it must be true. Is it them spending £1100 a month on rent?

Perhaps four to a one-bed flat? That'd be £275/month.

[LondonManc]

Immigrants are all unskilled low paid workers coming here for minimum wage jobs and handouts. I read it both here and in The Daily Express so it must be true. Is it them spending £1100 a month on rent?

No, it's the councils doing it then charging you so that we're not in breach of their human rights. HTHBIDI

[VectraMan]

For this reason alone, given the ceaseless torrent of immigration we will obviously have if we remain in the EU, anyone under the age of 30 and/or priced out of the property market must be completely deluded to even contemplate voting Remain.

Immigrants are all unskilled low paid workers coming here for minimum wage jobs and handouts. I read it both here and in The Daily Express so it must be true. Is it them spending £1100 a month on rent?

[scooterscot]

London is not the UK. Plenty of 1-bed place to rent well below the 57%.

Ma rented detached house here in Bavaria set me back 14% of my income last year.

[LondonManc]

So he sold gold cheap, big deal - in a grand schemes of things the amount was very low anyway, it's NOT the worst thing that he did - allowing house bubble to inflate was his main flaw, but all PMs (apart from me obviously) would have done the same in his position.

He was Chancellor at the time, but don't let that get in the way of your message

[AtW]

The "real" problem was some complete chunt changing our gold for Euros. Can't think who that was - can somebody remind me? Oh, wait, doesn't matter. I remember. It was Gordon Brown.

So he sold gold cheap, big deal - in a grand schemes of things the amount was very low anyway, it's NOT the worst thing that he did - allowing house bubble to inflate was his main flaw, but all PMs (apart from me obviously) would have done the same in his position.

[SueEllen]

indeed, also there is even less reason to register as a landlord now.

Friend renting a flat has taken his issues with a landlord to the council and what do they say? Oh we know that landlord very well, pity they don't force him to have valid Gas & Electric certificates or fix any of the issues in his properties....

Unfortunately councils aren't allowed to go to the courts and get someone banned from being a landlord.

They can only get them fined so it's a waste of money especially as the fines aren't that big. If the fines were big enough so properties could be seized these issues would happen less frequently.