Simon Crowther

The Flood Guy ® | Chartered Water & Environment Manager | Forbes 30 Under 30 | Engineer | Entrepreneur | Flood Specialist | Founder of @floodps

[Simon Crowther @SCcrowther]

My 89 year old grandparents win the award for most adorable email ever 🥰🥰🥰
Feeling blessed

[Dan Bruce @dannybster]

“We built a load of unsafe homes and it’s not fair we have to fix them”

[Simon Crowther @SCcrowther]

@BarryAndrewsMEP Here’s one of ours in Nottingham - happy to help

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

Government considering a ban on builders/developers being able to choose their own building control inspectors...

This would be a big and necessary change to a broken system

https://t.co/ybXLJ0lcwe

[UAVHive @UAVHive]

I've watched Dan's @dannybster woes over the years with his leasehold flat, where it's clearly been built by laborers with little to no skills.

How have we ended up a country where you cannot trust a new build property, especially flats?

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

The Tories are literally the party who created the student loan rip off. They were literally in power between 2012-2022 when these changes were implemented.

The audacity!

[Simon Crowther @SCcrowther]

@Conservatives https://t.co/yK0AGyKAGb

[Matt Lismore @MattLismore]

I cannot see a world in which this doesn’t result in a U-Turn.

Unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of a loan post that loan being taken out would be unlawful for any lender in the UK & the government would almost certainly call that what it is, loan sharking.

Aside from how horrendous the RPI +3% interest rate is, the changes to the assurances around thresholds is a disgrace.

Rethink needed here.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Student loan scandal

If it was kept at the same amount you borrowed, in real terms, that would make sense. But the fact they’re using RPI, which is something they refuse to use for pay rises, and then adding 3% on top of that, that’s just incredible

https://t.co/Hb0IfhQIGX

[Oli @WokeOli]

Imagine if pensioners lost £8 a month in benefits, they’d be starting a movement

[Simon Crowther @SCcrowther]

@HPG_Farmer @person184257 I’m not aware this has been legally challenged though. The one sided element is certainly open to challenge - but those of us with student loans aren’t the ultra rich, so no one powerful and wealthy has ever taken them on

[Simon Crowther @SCcrowther]

Martin Lewis has been asleep at the wheel for this on 10 years. Kept telling graduates not to worry as it wipes after 30 years and not to over pay- but now the interest is hitting home he’s more involved. Also telling graduates they may not have a legal angle without being a lawyer?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch clashes with Martin Lewis on her plans for student loans

[Ellen Pasternack @pastasnack_e]

I was told “borrow money to go to university and you can repay what you owe once you start earning enough”.

Not “go to university and later we will feel free to seize as much of your income as we decide to fund the state’s other spending commitments”.

[Simon Crowther @SCcrowther]

@RhysBenjamin @PolitlcsUK He seems to change his story and advice to stay relevant with whatever is popular at the time and get more PR.

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

Sorry, who implemented this in the first place?

It’s like someone robbing your house… then turning up years later offering to upgrade the locks.

Do me a favour.

[Ian Cowie @iancowie]

Probably the worst thing one generation ever did to another - and all the major political parties supported it!

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

£99987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans.

Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, likely to be at minimum wage.

At the margin graduates pay 20% income tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.

Loan keeps increasing, if not repaid.
https://t.co/Cm9kK6uobZ

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

This absolutely shocking scandal has got to end

[Boudica’s Daughters @boudicasarmy]

This for me is the most powerful, truthful and relatable thing I have heard on @bbcquestiontime for years.

Me feeling this way (and the fact that it was even necessary for him to say what he did) is a sad reflection of the society we live in now.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT

Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt"

"From the day I was charged RPI interest"

"Since I went to uni in 2012, the amount of interest I have accrued is £32,000"

"Was it missold to me when I was told it would cost me £9,000 a year? Yes"

"On top of that its a regressive system"

"If you're wealthy enough to pay the fees up front, you don't get charged interest - if you're rich enough you don't pay the same as me"

"The government changed the terms of the agreement, I call that loan sharking"

Fiona Bruce, "How else would you pay for university?"

Oli Dugmore, "How did you guys pay for it?"

"The state paid for it, didn't they?"

Fiona Bruce, "They did"

Oli Dugmore, "Good enough for you, good enough for me?"