General Election 8th June – Who on earth do landlords vote for?

Reply to the comment left by “Luk Udav” at “08/06/2017 – 14:14“:

I agree with Luk. Just now I attend an international industry conference. That industry is very much EU connected, with regulatory bodies and strong base in the UK. Consequences of Brexit, even a soft one, will be disastrous. We will all suffer as healthcare will be severely affected. Hard Brexit is really unthinkable. And lots of people (including myself) are prepared to move to EU with their corporations. It has already started, lets not kid ourselves that all is going to be just great. Preparations plans for moving out of the UK are very advanced indeed, and I hear that from inside my industry, not from Red Theresa’s lies.

Reply to the comment left by “Whiteskifreak Surrey” at “08/06/2017 – 15:32“:

I am seeing the same. My current client has just made 70 UK staff redundant, jobs will relocate to Hungary.

Reply to the comment left by “NW Landlord” at “08/06/2017 – 08:18“:

2 bed appartments from £1300pcm! seems like pleanty of padding to cover services. I wonder what a PRS 2 bed in that area would cost.

Reply to the comment left by “Darlington Landlord” at “08/06/2017 – 16:51“:

Lots of 2 bed apartments available at £800 – £900 within a couple of hundred yards.

Reply to the comment left by “Sam Addison” at “08/06/2017 – 17:47“:

Ah yes, but if you pay their £1,300 you get a £150 saving! The people moving in must be mathematically challenged.

CL: you may not see it but I do. Any half competent company is making contingency plans for when it goes belly up, as it will. Just this week I talked to a couple of investment bankers from different banks, and they are clear what’s happening. These are guys from an environment where the tax they pay is enormous and the decision makers they talk to are powerful. May and the Terrible Trio (Johnson, for God’s sake! Liam Invisible Fox; Davis is the only half-competent one) will make a complete hash of negotiating as they are terrified of the ConKip wing.

No, I didn’t vote Liberal this morning. I live in Andrea Leadsom’s constituency so how I vote makes damn all difference. One of my sons voted LibDem as he’s in a constituency where they may well beat the Tories. On the basis that Corbyn isn’t a robot and might just be polite enough to handle the EU negotiators my other son and the three girls who can vote voted Labour. My 15 year old would have voted Green as man made global warming will effect her (is Nuttall still a climate change denier?). I’ve only got a couple of decades at most to live; my 15-y-old has 8 decades so I voted for her future.

Moving on to the grammar school argument. I was the first boy from my dump primary school to pass the 11 plus. I had a fantastic education at grammar school which I valued immensely (it’s total nonsense that if you get something for free you don’t value it). I had a superb free education at Oxford, which I left with +£20 in my pocket. But the kids who get into grammars now are disproportionately ones with parents who can afford the private tutoring or a couple of years at prep school. I see it in Buckinghamshire. If it were possible to devise admissions that were tutor-proof then a grande-ecole style education for a *small* minority is arguable.

Let me conclude with a small anecdote. My best friend in the 4th form and up at grammar school was the son of a policeman. Phil had failed his 11-plus, but his dad was moved to our area and somehow Phil was erroneously sent to my grammar school. He got into Oxford the same year as me. Sorting people into winners and losers at 10 is stark staring mad and a waste of so much human capital. My wife went to a Bog Lane secondary modern, and she’s a lot more effective at being a human being than I am.

Reply to the comment left by “Gary Dully” at “07/06/2017 – 11:08“:

So is he proposing to abolish Sec 24 if you earn less than £80 k ?
Don’t suppose the numbskull thought it through, just like the rest of them.

Reply to the comment left by “Luk Udav” at “08/06/2017 – 19:22“:

With respect Luk I think the EU negotiators will require a little more from any Prime Minister than Corbyn’s politeness !! Agreeing in advance to protect foreign citizens ahead of your own is not a good negotiation tactic in anyone’s book surely ? Just one example.

We agree on one thing though. I voted for my kids too – for them not to be saddled with mountains more debt that can never realistically be serviced as a result of a reckless Marxist fantasist spending spree.

If he gets in tonight I shudder I really do sell up move away me thinks

Killing time before the election result;

Luk- “Moving on to the grammar school argument.”

I really don’t get the Left argument against Grammar schools.
– other than dragging all kids down to the lowest common denominator.

Accepted the system is abused but it still gives the brightest poor kids at least a chance.

“But the kids who get into grammars now are disproportionately ones with parents who can afford the private tutoring or a couple of years at prep school.”

Perhaps (probably) that is true. But why is that reason not to give the brightest poor kids a chance?

I Really don’t get it.