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[hello-everyone @hi_fromLondon]

@talktoNHG Hi , can you please ask to Ursula to reply to her e-mails?

[hello-everyone @hi_fromLondon]

@kimbrunhuber @hennahundal Please tell your news editor that Erno Rubik is a Hungarian inventor, and not another one that you quoted in the news. Thank you

[Matt Hodges-Long @MattHodgesLong]

Please pay attention @mtpennycook @AngelaRayner @Keir_Starmer you need to get a grip of the #BuildingSafetyCrisis urgently. Happy to help DMs are open.

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@David_ParkerUK @GlennSeat @Conservatives Tories never wanted and don’t intend to solve the leaseholder issue. Most of them and their base is a beneficiary…

Why would they ever want to change it???

Maybe a future Labour goverment…

We can only hope 🤞🏼

[hello-everyone @hi_fromLondon]

@BestForBritain Guto darling…

It’s called pantomime…

Not pantomine… 🙄

As a former director of comms, you should know

Or maybe you meant :

pant-o-mine ?

By the way, is BoJo paying you or are you that blinded?

BoJo is no polihistor, has no clue about science
🤪

Only half-intelligent

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@fleetstreetfox @SkyNews @JakeWSimons @skygillian Suzie, your no-nonsense approach to real life and your pragmatic views are a breath of fresh air.

It’s such a joy to listen to you on Sky

No fluff,
no bluff,
pure good old-fashioned sense.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Huge applause and thank you 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee @CommonsHCLG]

Have you used the Shared Ownership or Right to Shared Ownership schemes?

Share your experiences and contribute to our brand new inquiry: https://t.co/jS1S3ZLZ6x

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@GlennSeat @LiamSpender This is how the English system works:
Developers build shiny-looking (but behind the walls sub-standard) buildings…
The “mug” leaseholder buys the flat @ a premium - unaware of shoddy workmanship - then freeholders “repair the defects” at leaseholders’ cost via Service Charges

[#claddingscandal #notjustcladding #FireSafetyBill @mpp_gtto]

@LiamSpender @EOCS_Official The tax avoiding freeloader donor cartels along with the developer donor cartels were all very silently & gleefully draining the life savings of tax paying leaseholders and at the slightest hint of having to do the right thing are in major meltdown @ConHome @Conservatives

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

The developers and cladding producers may have built the buildings, but freeholders undoubtedly contributed to the #BuildingSafetyCrisis

Freeholders' and managing agents' knee-jerk reaction exacerbated the issue by adopting a zero-risk approach at leaseholders' expense.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

It was RFA member Consensus Business Group (owned by the Tchenguiz Family Trust) who, weeks after the Grenfell Tower fire, rushed off to the FTT to dump costs at Cityscape in Croydon on leaseholders.

That, and the government's bunged response, is what triggered the cost crisis.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

It is "professional" freeholders who created demand for doubling ground rents and leasehold houses.

It is "professional" freeholders who gobbled up the freeholds to shoddily built flats to grub ground rents and secret commissions, asking few questions about build quality.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

They didn't need to ask questions: they knew they wouldn't have to pay the bill.

And it is these same freeholders and managing agents delaying Building Safety Fund grant funding for years by seeking to re-negotiate the funding agreements to protect their commercial interests.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

The leasehold system has proven an intractable barrier to fixing cladding-affected buildings.

We are collectively mad if we expect the same conflict-ridden, greedy, incompetent "professional" freeholders to to produce net-zero buildings.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

4/4 The people best placed to manage their buildings are the people who live in them and pick up all of the costs of running them.

Not the yield-obsessed moral midget accountants who run the RFA.

Residents should control their own buildings, as they do everywhere else on Earth.

[Shared Ownership Resources @ResourcesShared]

Barrister @RawdonCrozier outlined some key #SharedOwnership issues at today’s #APPG on leasehold reform: short leases, lease extension and the recent @ASA_UK ruling on misleading SO advertising campaigns.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

Solicitor fined £15,000 plus £11,350 costs for giving the wrong advice on 115 Taylor Wimpey leasehold house ground rents.

Incorrect advice was that the rent doubled every 25 years. It actually doubled every 10 years.

https://t.co/aoNoAlpcpS

https://t.co/IASttO9T44

[Sophie @SophieLB1]

When we paid £600 per month on top of mortgages for a #WakingWatching it wasn't tweeted out by @Keir_Starmer. It was difficult to get anyone in Govt to say it was unacceptable, it was almost mandated by them. These increases have been the #BuildingSafetyCrisis reality for years.

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

1/17 We await the results of the Financial Conduct Authority's review into leasehold insurance.

The interim report from May 2022 (https://t.co/1vi7KJ0qSw) suggested capped commissions and mandatory disclosure.

Will that help where brokers are boosting their profits by 43%?

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@KayBurley Non-dom Fishy Sunak for PM??

Yeah, right… 🙄

Would people vote for a billionaire???

If Offshore Rishi becomes PM, Labour will win next GE

Plus he was BoJo’s enabler with the rest of the cabinet for 2 years

Enjoy your wealth Rishi and ride off into the sunset with your 💰