Jon the Hat

There will always be homeless people, so you need shelters. During Covid, councils managed to get just about everybody a bed. Too hard in normal times though apparently.

I fully appreciate it is a pain in the arse, but as you say you are in a position to move. We are also renting at the moment, and hope not to have to move for a few years. 7 though is a pretty good run I would say!

In the midst of all this cutting immigration Rwanda bullshit, the Home Office have increased the income requirements for spouse visas to nearly GBP38k, in line with working visas. So you have to earn in the 73rd percentile to be able to have your foreign spouse join you in the UK. Outrageous.

As long as they give you plenty of notice under the terms of the lease, and it sounds like they gave you more than that - what is the issue? It is their house no?

The question is, if people need to rent, why is a private landlord necessarily any worse than any other landlord? Or is your issue more broadly that no one should own property?

THE THRACIAN IS SLEEPING.

The original comment was re Australia. In Australia you can deduct interest expenses and maintenance, as well as depreciate improvements and new build costs. A loss is then offset against your income tax so makes it all cheaper.

Looking at it, you can also depreciate your investment in the property in some cases, so you could be paper loss cash profit.

I don't under the private rental market at all - most rents are still less than the cost of a 70% mortgage on the property, so landlords are taking losses. Presumably then people with higher incomes are using those losses to offset other taxes, but if you take a way this strange tax structure, while house prices might come down, rents are likely to go up, which makes the position of most of those unable to buy worse. Messy. The only solution I think is much more ambitious development of regional cities and fast rail connections, all of which seem to be beyond state or federal government.

Fair also to note you can be homeless without being on the streets, sofa surfing is homeless too. Your mates or family don't always have a place to put you long term.

My mum, who is in her 70s still thinks Radio 2 should be for her, and Radio 1 is definitely too young for me, and 6 music too sometimes, so not sure where I am supposed to fit into BBC radio land.

It's an interesting point, but I guess many things are only negative if directed in the wrong way.

I think you will find MK Dons were formed in 2004 by a complete ****.

It is certainly a risk if we were to stop fossil fuels before the alternatives are in place, but I don't see that happening tbh.

By people who work hard, are smart and have some pretty special skills. Else everyone would be doing it. Caveated again that clearly some have exploited political opportunity and corruption to seize national wealth like the oligarchs. The 2023 Forbes 400 Self-Made Score: From Silver Spooners To Bootstrappers The large majority of US billionaires came from middle class backgrounds. Seems to me quite a few of those who inherited are only second generation wealth like the Waltons. Yes there are the long term wealthy, but if anything that is reducing as a share of the super rich.

Not sure of your point? Obviously no inheritance is earned, but that doesn't mean the wealth wasn't. Surely someone had to be a smart hard working amazingly skilled person in the first place? Unless they stole it oligarch style of course.

My sympathies to those who have recently lost loved ones to this horrible disease. We're about to lose my lovely Aunt here in Australia, and my other lovely aunt in the UK has just been formally diagnosed although it had been fairly clear for some time. Sad times.

The master of Realpolitik, with all the consequences that brings. Hard to imagine someone of such influence with so little concern for the impacts of his decisions or advise on anyone outside his interest these days. In the West at least.

Standard beer price in Straya.

Its a power play.

Yeah totally bored of the current ones. Will read up on it and pick a side.

That would not be acceptable to the worlds 5th largest economy. The countries you mention are tiny and can accept being in without a say. The UK cannot and should not.

Yes exactly, there is something about the slow boiled frog in some places imo, while in Ireland it is so in your face people are more ****ed off. Just an impression.

Its not going to happen, not for at least a generation, probably longer. The terms the EU would offer will not be acceptable to the UK. Even if the political will was there.

A bit exaggerated in Ireland though I think by the very short time in which a subsection of educated / professional people including migrants have done very well, leaving a relatively poor white working class behind and now unable to afford to own a home in areas where they lived for generations. Almost overnight.