Matthew Gardiner

Connecting people, buildings and ideas to make a better world. Tweeting in an entirely personal capacity for the first time since I don’t know when.

[Matthew Gardiner @MatthewG_685]

I’m still here. But matthew685 is also over there - where the air is fresh and clear. There you’ll find some #housing and #photography stuff. Give me a wave #ukhousing

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@whatsthepont @PaulIanTaylor @shirleyayres @managerspeak If a jobs worth doing it’s worth doing properly. So much of the friction in change is overcoming inertia - once you’ve decided to take a step and started moving it’s pretty much the same effort to take a big one as a small one

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@thorneh Barely believable

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This was a bit special #aurora #hoylake

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@PaulIanTaylor @ESpringW11 @victor_dacunha Don’t go. Stay and be the better voice. Just don’t ever buy a #tesla

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@alistairmcint14 @NGoodrichHsg I’m not sure you can be a compliant G2/non-complaint c3 creature either. But that would be a bigger call.

[Tour de France™ @LeTour]

⚔️ SIR MARK CAVENDISH 🏆

🇬🇧 @MarkCavendish

#TDF2024

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Have his trousers shrunk even more?#thingscanonlygetwetter Ridiculous, amateurish shambles. Will get everything it deserves on Election Day.

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@jamestickell The saddest part is that it worked.

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@jamestickell Deliberate.

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@Simplicitly The King’s shilling does not have to be taken….

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@Simplicitly @grantshapps It was slightly tongue in cheek. I agree a morality regulator would be a disaster. But something that makes organisations self-aware of the ethical priorities implicit in their decison to eg build new over address damp and mould might prevent those failures in the first place?

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@Simplicitly @grantshapps Maybe if the Regulator added a “Morality” rating, but while the big V features so strongly as the sign of success, I’m afraid the morals will always come second (or not at all)

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@Simplicitly @grantshapps Hmmmm. The important (IMHO) “sub-market” nature of rent levels is put under a lot of strain if the economics features too large. And don’t get me started about the moral/economic arguments around service charges…. 1/2

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@Simplicitly @grantshapps Or alternatively, something as fundamental as Housing Policy should be based on neither something as fickle as politics nor as financially driven as economics, but on need and compassion?

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@ESpringW11 @gaskell_mike @LostInSW19 @Johnhenry151 @jjcaspell @peterwalt7 @nicblisscch @JJDHousing @LuchiaFitz100 @Simplicitly @Trowers @LeslieChannon @PhilMorganblog @TpasJenny @franbevan @Darwin1Bernardo @Tenant_Tim @Gaynor_Torus @MLawrenceJourno @tpasengland @HousingOmbuds Power is not a zero sum game. It is presently unbalanced (badly) between landlord and tenant, but power is not ceded as such - it multiplies when given away

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@Simplicitly @wheatley_martin @alistairmcint14 @RSHEngland You’re right. Gradings are necessary, but not sufficient. All I’m saying is that Boards need to have ambition beyond gradings

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@wheatley_martin @alistairmcint14 @Simplicitly @RSHEngland The challenge for landlords is to care about the customer not about the grading from the Regulator. Gradings are a symptom not a cause….