The fall of the Tory party

Absolutely.

I get the sentiment, but if you find that word offensive it’s not very pleasant to read. Even if people agree with what your saying.

Understood. Not a word I use often for that reason. But I will definitely stand by it here.

It is quite prevalent on this thread for some reason.

Just to add to the figures above, too — to realise a gain of 42k you only need to have been a landlord since either Aug 2021 (for average UK), or May 2019 (for London).

That is absolutely nuts.

I use it all the time.

This government is composed of cunts, has been led by a succession of cunts and behaves cuntishly for cuntish purposes.

Not everyone who votes for them is a cunt but a lot of those cunts who did are total cunts.

There's an easy way to remember that:

cunts
unreasonably
normalise
tory
sycophancy

We're currently arguing with our landlord of 9 years over our next years tenancy agreement. Having put our rent up by £150 a month we're trying to buy a house. He has refused to entertain anything other than a fixed 1 year tenancy, with no break clause or anything. So by his rules - we have to try and buy a house for our young family on 1 May next year. Requesting a two month notice is just being rejected even though hes had 9 years of faultless payment on the date every month. His argument is that he might be on holiday.

CUNT

"In that case, we're happy to agree to give you 2 months + 2 weeks notice, to account for the possibility you're on holiday."
😬

We were in the same position last year and had to eat 3 months' rent, as well as paying the estate agent fees for the next tenancy. It's hardly difficult for them to call up an estate agent and give them the keys, is it? Very clear in these scenarios that tenancies are really services to landlords, and only nominally for tenants.

Anyway, hopefully for you and others the Rental Reform Bill will pass before next year, so you can give 2 months' notice after 6 months from the tenancy start date. It has a clause that allows it to be applied retroactively to old tenancies too (the 'extended application date').

I'm hoping Labour's housing secretary, Matthew Pennycook, sets the date as early as possible. It seems like he's well briefed on housing, so it's their chance to shine.

Edit: here's the bill — it's well worth a read, at least for anyone who is about as dull/interested in housing poilcy as me: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-04/0015/230015.pdf

Hammer frozen sausages into the lawn when you move out.

Sausage removal: £300

Plus admin fee for sending you the bill

And VAT

Thanks for this. I might let the agent know - they can tell the landlord that agreeing to our 2 month notice request would be good practice for when he has to suck it up on all of his properties.

Looks like the Bill could pass any time now, and the Conservatives have suggested it is a priority before they call the GE. However, it's not clear how quickly it would apply to existing tenancies - is that right?

You must be a new cunt round here.

It's had a bit of flack from backbenchers recently, so if it goes through, I'd guess it would be close to the election date, whenever that may be.

I'd be very doubtful that the conservatives would apply it to existing tenancies quickly, and it's just a hope really that Labour's first move on it could be its application to existing tenancies. The limit will be whether the courts are coping with the new process for evictions after the removal of section 21, which should technically only kick in after 6 months anyway.

It seems politically viable and meaningful for a new government, but perhaps that's a bit of wishful thinking? Hard to tell I'm afraid!

:)

It's certainly tedious. It has the effect for me of drowning out actual points under a wave of everything being cuntworthy™. If everything warrants the term then nothing does. Which is exactly what the Tories would want

You can get browser extensions [others available] that allow you replace selected words with others of your choice, if you dislike a word that much.

Anyone else, feel free to replace Tory with your choice of expletive and enjoy the results.

Storyhorpe.

Back when I played a bit of Rugby League, we had an overzealous filter on the club website and chat board that led to interesting fixture cards and discussions featuring our trips to Scunthorpe - with the mods also receiving warnings of every mention. CSB, etc, etc.

Yep, large logistics firm Wincanton had a similar issue back in the early noughties, when switching email service software.

Lost a lot of orders and clients in the North East until they figured out how to properly configure the filters.

The silly cunts.

Lots more silliness here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

This is my point put in a more accurate way.

If the answer to why we have had so many years of corruption, self serving politicians, excessive capitalism, redistribution of wealth from working people to billionaires, ignoring and encouraging climate change, support for genocide etc etc etc is because they are Cs then it feels a bit blunt and alienating to a large proportion of people.

Any talk of Lightwater Valley was also forbidden on the one I remember.