Lord Duckhunter

That’s like saying “I’m not worried about Damien Downs taking throw ins, and he’s cool as a cucumber when kicking off”. His fucking job is to stop balls going in the net, not passing the fucking thing.

It’s unbelievable, despite their own impact assessment saying exactly the same thing, you can’t accept it. 😂😂 Imagine if a Tory Government admitted their policies would increase costs and somebody posted this actually wasn’t true, I’m sure you’d be all over it. As you’re so obsessed with our tenants rent rise, I’ll explain, although based on you not accepting the Government’s own assessment, I’m not sure you’ll understand it. Firstly, the increased regulation & workload on our agent has resulted in a 1% increase in their fee, which has been passed on. Checking round other agents, the fee was in line with most. So that extra £19 went straight on their increase. No doubt you’ll want a line by line breakdown of what extra work is involved and how much it is, but personally, I’ve taken the Government’s word there’s more regulation for them to ensure we comply with, and more regulation inevitably involves more work & man hours. Secondly, we’ve never bothered before as we had the option of section 21 to get rid of awkward tenants (and have used this), but with this being abolished, we have taken up £35 a month Rent & legal protection policy, passed on to them. If we could still use section 21 we wouldn’t have bothered. Thirdly, wanting to keep good tenants, we reduced the rent by £100 a month, if they signed a Fixed-term Assured Shorthold Tenancy of a year. This gave us stability & assurance and also gave them reassurance we wouldn’t be kicking them out. This Government is banning these, & therefore we will only have 2 months notice if tenants want to quit. We’re no longer reducing rent for the security of the property being rented every month for a year, if we haven’t got that security. So therefore, before you factor in inflation, the rent has risen approx £150 a month as a direct result of Government policy. The next increase will also rise by 2% more than inflation to take into account the 2% increase in Income tax for landlords coming down the track. If this is reversed (with Starmers record, there’s a good chance it will be), then this won’t be loaded on. Before recommending an increase the agent will give us a summery of local market conditions. Previously they’ve blamed the Tory party & George Osborne’s tax changes for landlords selling up, the less supply the bigger increase in rents. This time, they blamed the upcoming act for supply issues, and therefore suggested rents are increasing locally as supply tightens. Our rent was slightly below its market value so it also went up to bring it in line for the Rental increases part of the act. The stupid comment that Agents will recommend increases as they get paid, shows a complete lack of understanding of the industry. The worse thing for an agent is an empty house, as they don’t get a penny in that scenario. It’s not a woe is me story, it hasn’t changed my circumstances in the slightest. The people affected by it are the tenants, they’re the ones paying for this. Had the Government done nothing, their rent would be cheaper, that’s an absolute fact… My neighbour has 6 properties he rents out, we have 1. One of my sons has 2. My job involves dealing with some of the areas larger property companies/landlords and knowing what is going on with the building & general maintenance trade in the area. Even single person I’ve spoken to has said this government has increased costs on landlords, the government itself has admitted this, the only people who don’t seem to think they have are to be found on here. Supposedly “unbiased” posters 😂

I think I came on a said that agent who manage our property suggested we put the rent up, citing Government legislation as the reason for that increase. We don’t pluck figures out of thin air, we rely on the experts to guide us as they know the rental market in the locality. Is your argument that despite the Government saying themselves that this legislation increases costs for landlords , and these costs will result in increased rents for tenants ,this isn’t actually true?

It’s not just my claim. They themselves have said they’re implementing policies which will lead to increased landlord costs being passed on to tenants. Seeing as I quoted word for word from their own impact assessment, and you still won’t accept it, there seems little point in continuing this particular debate.

Those statistics just show how unlucky Baz is. If Carl Rushworth faced the amount of unstoppable shots Baz faced, he’d be bottom of the list….

Don’t take my word for it, take the Government’s own impact assessment conducted by The Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government. “It is likely that landlords will pass through some costs of new policies to tenants in the form of higher rents – to offset those costs and maintain a degree of profit. “Landlords will likely offset some of the costs of the regulation through rental price growth.” Bizarre to think you know better than them, when they have all the facts and figures at their fingertips and their job is to assess the impact this new policies have on the rental market. That was before the 2% increase in Income tax coming up, which will be passed directly on to the tenants in the vast vast majority of cases.

They’re limited to one a year, with 2 months notice, they also need to be aligned with “local market rates” and you can’t evict tenants as easily. Local market rates will go up, and most landlords only increased rents once a year anyway. Once you add in the number of landlords selling up which is impacting supply, rents will defo increase as a result of this bill. Tenants will get better protection from rogue landlords, but at the cost of increased rents. You’ve really drunk the Starmer kool aid , if you think this will result in anything other than increased rents.

Dylan’s a funny one. His voice is an acquired taste, and I agree the early acoustic stuff isn’t for me. But once he got The Band behind him, it is electric in every sense of the word. It’s pretty hard for younger people to realise just how popular & influential he was, as his versions of his music hasn’t aged particularly well. The songs he wrote have, and will be covered for years to come. Joni Mitchell is the one I could never get into, great songwriter but her voice did my head in.

You’re too late, Panorama already have an undercover man at the heart of the club. Have done for years. I don’t know about others, but I”m looking forward to Baz’s report when it finally airs on TV…

Refs should show more of this, I guess because they’re now miked up, they need to be careful. Reminds me of my mate who used to umpire local cricket. He turned down 2 LBW appeals, and the bowler was muttering and moaning. Few overs later, the bowler clean bowls the bloke, and sarcastically turns round and shouts “owzat”. My mate then slowly puts his arm out and signals, no ball.

They go down when the ball is dead, you can’t just be playing on, especially if it’s a goal kick to restart play. Putting the reserve keeper on is the best solution I’ve seen , Saints web poster showing the way to FIFA. The other rule id bring in is this; injury time is ball in play time. If ref indicates 4 mins, then that’s 4 mins of ball in play. Every time it goes out, 4th official stops watch

I think we’re probably the biggest underachievers, particularly after Palace just won the cup. To have 1 FA cup to show for 50 odd years in the top flight is pretty poor when you consider some of the sides we’ve had. We also somehow managed to finish second, every time we’ve been promoted (Lego aside). Even with Fonte, Lambert & Lallana we somehow managed that in league fucking one as well.

Played regularly, probably kelvin.

I read that FIFA are on the case. They’re looking at teams having to swap an outfield player as the one that has to stand on the line for 30 seconds if the keeper has treatment. Don’t know how it’ll work, does the opposition choose, or the keepers side. Maybe it could be the nearest player when the keeper goes down. Personally, I’d manage it a different way. I’d double the time added on for the “injury”, so if there’s 3 mins of treatment I’d add 6 mins. Of course you couldn’t do this if there’s a foul, but if they go down for no reason, they’re going to cost their side time….

Seeing news that the actress who played Joan has just died, I can’t believe I left Early Doors of my list. Probably suffered from being Royal familyish (another great series I missed off). It was a brilliant show, but unlike the Royal Family it finished at the right time, and didn’t over stay its welcome.