Sir Ralph

Great response. These tend to be successful and experienced business owners within property and land, albeit with diversification / investment into other areas. Some of the responses from you and your friends are frankly immature and embarrassing. You can’t debate things and just come up with slurs again and again.

I don’t want him to fail but ann approach of tax and spend is flawed. Starmer did the same and numerous people said that it wasn’t sustainable and guess what….the Tories could have turned the tide and didn’t If he is a serious politician (I agree that barely any are) he will take a proportionate approach to taxing and spending. I think people are concerned that this won’t be the case but the budget will clarify that

Funnily enough pretty much everyone I speak to in business says something similar. People are fed up with their hard earned business revenue being increasingly taxed, in various ways, and it going on the gravy train

They profess to understand economics too. Anyway they probably won’t respond as their leader / dad has told them to ignore us both. 😉

Another great response. You lefties really can’t engage in any sensible conversation. Can you manage to engage with the point I made?

So if I’m Spanish and renting and can’t afford my rent what am I going to do next? The lefty government will try to introduce something similar to rent caps (I suspect, something that comrade khan wanted to introduce) which means people stop investing in rental properties which impacts the economy with less job generation and tax revenue and fewer rental properties, hurting the people the government were try to help. But hey nobody said socialism understands the real world.

The latest offer by the landlord was below market rent, as evidenced in various publications. Not made up

That really got to the heart of the question. Funny how the “centrists” always throw the insults

I feel sorry for her circumstance but this is the situation in large parts of Europe. If anything you could say the landlord has been allowing her to live at a substantially discounted rent for a long period. This is an issue of a lack of housing supply generally, rather than the landlord

So if some of the poster on here had a house with a monthly mortgage of £2000 a month they are saying that they wouldn’t ask the incumbent tenant for a market level rent and when they couldn’t pay it they would suck up the £1500 shortfall each month. Doesn’t Spain have affordable housing for this type of situation? What should happen is all landlords in Spain should only charge what the tenant can pay. They will all sell up and there will be no rental properties available for those who rely on rental properties to live in them.

What the landlord should have done is accept a much lower rent below market value and accepted the shortfall on the mortgage and cross subsidised the loss themselves. I’m sure all the critics would have done the same!😂

I quoted the name of the report yesterday and stats the day before. Stick to the lighter conversation about hula hoops.

You’re very rude. I don’t think some of us are going to agree as it’s got personal. Best to stick to the hula hoop chat

Not really I gave you the stats and the report name you can do the rest if you want to. Shame if you can’t. You and egg giving me a chance. What a privilege! It’s as if you think I need to earn your respect - the perception of self importance is interesting .

Absolute rubbish you haven’t answered any questions I asked. You didn’t even answer my latest question. There is no point engaging with you. You run off when you are asked anything.

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I can’t remember which bit I edited - I was probably trying to ensure accuracy. I’m not a reform supporter as such Iprobably more of a conservative. Eveb if I did vote for them doesn’t mean I agree with every policy. ILR shouldn’t be cancelled in cases such as your wife on the assumption she has contributed to British society through working and taxes and isn’t a criminal (I’m not making a disparaging comment I’m just stating some criteria which could void ILR)

Here he is “mr I can’t answer any questions” - do you have the 5 replies to my questions. Where did I ever call him out for not sharing links? Question 6 I’ve given him the name of the report and there is only one government report with that name. He wants me to be his secretary. I’m not stupid I know how his weird mind works it’s a sad attempt at a power play, which I won’t enter into. Come back when you have the answers rather than hiding behind your friends

There are figures for the blm protests but nothing accurate about the illegal migrant protests. Those figures are complete hearsay and “running into the millions” is pure speculation. If I presented that you would laugh me out the room. There were over 13 times more arrests at the illegal migrant protests than blm so you would need to find a stat which supports an incredibly high number of attendees at the illegal migrant protests to bring the arrest levels on par

So if you want to be demeaning towards a group of people (I’m not saying they shouldn’t integrate by the way) it’s ok because they are all like that and it’s a “fact” in your eyes. The arrogance and double standards astound. If I characterised all Indians living in the uk in specific way and said it was a fact you would have something to say. I suspect it’s because you look at uk residents in Spain with a degree of dismissiveness and an air of superiority . Anyway you don’t enter into debate with me so this isn’t happening

You can’t pick and choose when the kitchen gets hot. I lived far from Europe. Funny you wouldnt generalise in demeaning terms about an illegal migrant but you would an English person in Spain. There’s a name for that. Have a good day changing your mind

1. I’ve told you there aren’t comparable figures for attending the protests. It means there could have been more at either. It doesn’t invalidate it (it may in your mind cause your looking for any chink) as I have given alternative measures for assessing the level of crime / violence at each compared to arrests which is a better barometer. 2. The report is the police response to the 2024 summer disorder - google it. I’ve taken stats from that. The conclusions of the report are no two tier policing but the vast majority of evidence that informed the conclusion is from the same police chiefs under fire so I question the independence of that conclusion and whether it actually tested the conduct of the very organisation being accused of two tier policing. A closed shop if you ask me. They weren’t even asked why the arrests were so high in the illegal migrant protests but lower for the blm protests for example. Real scrutiny! 3. I’m not going to get into this but I didn’t leave because plod was after me!

Egg yesterday: Re the rest, I keep telling you that I'm not debating with you, and I haven't, and won't. I'll acknowledge you no further.

Taking a couple of examples, academia and the bbc have a high proportion of people with left wing political views. It’s the nature of people they attract. On the face of it they aren’t “politically” influenced but the people running them have their own political views which influence the approach those institutions take. Govenrment reviews on the bbc have indicated that there is a lack of impartiality due to “uninformed groupthink” In terms of having a disproportionate number of left wingers, you gov surveys of academics have indicated that circa 53% are left leaning, 35% are neutral and 9% are conservative. Policy exchange research has come to the same conclusions.