homelessness minister
well yes she’s making people homeless, job well done
Damnit. Beat me to it. But the joke basically wrote itself so… :D
Minister for homelessness, previous experiences appreciated.
She resigned rather than keep the rents low. She’s just gonna go full evil landlord now
Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from that position
I agree. Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from being a landlord.
Maybe she misunderstood and didn’t realize she’s supposed to reduce homelessness.
Yes, but if she doesn’t keep making more people homeless she’ll be out of a job!
Then she’ll be homeless! Which increases homelessness numbers! So they’ll have to give her a job again. But then she won’t be homeless anymore.
schrodinger’s homelessness
Labour party lmao
They should rebrand to the “Work or Starve” party.
Or Work And Still Starve at the rate they’re going
As a Canadian, sensitive question but how come everyone in the government and labor party is Indian nowadays? Im just curious as I’ve noticed it as I read these stories
The UK has a lot of ethnic Indians because of the empire and encouraging immigration to replace people who didn’t survive WWII. The Labour Party has about as many people with Indian heritage as would be expected given population demographics. It’s probably just more than in Canada, so it seems like a lot to you.
Never connected it to the post ww2 population decline but it makes sense, thanks
There was no significant population decline during or after WW2.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-of-england-millennium?time=1900..2016
Much of the effect of young men of working age getting killed off was mitigated by increased participation in the workforce by women.
Mirgration from the subcontinent had much more to do with the demand for cheap labour by manufacturers in the early 20th century, especially the textile industry, and by public services during the period of postwar rebuilding.
All landlords are bastards.
I own two properties that I let out. I never cheat my tenants, it’s bad for business. So (though I hate to put it like this): not all landlords.
Only 99%.
All means all, fuck you.
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Depends, even if you’re a nice landlord who treats tenants fairly, if you’re voting for things that make house prices higher, or the rental market tighter, then you’re an arsehole.
If you’re using periods of rapid rental inflation to also massively raise the rent, then fuck you. If you’re standing in the way of up-zoning, fuck you. If you leave your rental empty for a long time because you’re looking for at or above market rents, fuck you.
However, if you’re just playing the capitalist game at the kiddie tables (2 properties like juuuuuust counts, maybe), while doing everything else in your power to work against capitalism, then I’m willing to grant there being landlords who aren’t arseholes, just people living in the system.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game, and hate the players who aren’t trying to undo the game in some way.
I’m inclined to agree not all landlords are bad, just most.
Lemmy usees hate you for it but they can’t imagine someone just temporarily needing to rent a place instead of buying it and being stuck there. It’s a logical exchange between a homeowner and a (temporary) home seeker so please ignore the hate hahaha.
FIY, the Minister’s party (Labour) is currently pushing a law to increase tenants’ rights, including preventing this exact situation from happening, which makes the whole situation even more ridiculous and hypocritical.
Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill, which will become law next year, prohibits landlords who have ended a tenancy in order to sell a property from relisting it for higher rent until at least six months after tenants have moved out.
Labour is a deeply unserious party that is trying to revert to Blairism. They want to look like they are doing something, but don’t actually want to change anything.
It’s also the party who willingly sent hundreds of thousands of disabled people including children into poverty. So not too off brand either.
This implies Tories are any better
Nah it doesn’t. It’s possible to criticise a party without people automatically thinking it means I support a fascist party. This two party thinking has to stop. They both deserve a fuckload of criticism.
Is she trying to get in on this before the law passes?
Sounds better than nothing but why even make it legal to evict tenants to sell a place in the first place?
My landlord did this. He said he wanted to sell the place, then rented it again at a way higher price. Very illegal, but I moved out of the city - hard to do small claims from so far away.
Incredible. In the worst way.
Seems pretty credible to me.
Always a nice change of pace seeing terrible politicians from outside the US. Terrible for our outlook as a species, but a nice change of scenery none the less.
Look up France-Élaine Duranceau, minister of housing in Québec, Canada. Another fine example.
yep, she’s completely disconnected from reality. She bought her 700k$ house cash at like 30 something, cannot understand why people does not invest in real estate. She would be the one saying “are you trying not being poor?”
She will say “try not being poor”?
Awful, but unfortunately happens a lot.
I bought my home two years ago in anticipation of my now former landlord selling the building, which he did last year. I didn’t want to get priced out of living in the place I wanted to be.
what a cunt
update: this article caused her to resign from her Ministerial position the next day.
