Patsy Sweeney is on Bluesky

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

Thank you Shadow Housing Sec. @kevinhollinrake for your Questions to @mhclg👇 & commitment to hold govt to account on the Building Safety Scandal

❌Leaseholders still paying for Non-Cladding defects

❌Uncapped £ for #NonQualifyingLH, U11m & Enfranchised!
https://t.co/MrUg0MekFA

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

@EOCS_Official 📣@EOCS_Official “Gov has recognised that deregulation caused this scandal, so why are we as LH’s having to sort out the consequences individually?
“If ALL leaseholders were protected, imagine the relief and certainty that would give to the housing market.” @mhclg @AngelaRayner

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

🗨️“The cladding scandal has fundamentally and irreversibly changed my view of the fairness of living in this country and has highlighted the ease with which so many people who have been involved have been able to prioritise profit over human beings’’

https://t.co/TZktr3jUUF

[Patsy Sweeney is on Bluesky @patsykew]

@EOCS_Official @CommonsPAC @AngelaRayner @AlexJJNorris I hope this Government will do better. Not more of the same BS, please.

[Cladding Victim  @LostInSW19]

@bobbycarver88 @NonQualifyingLH @natfednews @Victoria_Spratt @mhclg @AlexJJNorris @AngelaRayner @kevinhollinrake It was on BBC breakfast 10 days ago. Check EOCS YouTube channel
https://t.co/yeg1Fyohha

[meena @meena77531087]

@julietMCP2 @Keir_Starmer @dino868 Labour breaks the contract by raiding our pensions & savings. I wouldn’t mind paying more tax for security but as a leaseholder we were told they couldn’t use taxpayers (our) money to fix the problem Governments allowed with deregulation. We just get burdened for working hard.

[Harry Scoffin @HarryScoffin]

✊THEY WORK FOR US✊

Well done “excitable leasehold activists”!

YOU have forced the @UKLabour government to hit the accelerator to tackle the leasehold cost of living emergency: https://t.co/uA0k3kloUQ

These Right to Manage reforms published today, which go live on the 3rd of March, allow many more leaseholders to replace their landlord, hire a professional managing agent who will be accountable to them, and take a chainsaw to wasteful service charge spending. RTM is a low-cost alternative to buying the freehold.

These policies have been fast-tracked ahead of the original timetable set by the government in November.

Under the current law, leaseholders are barred from taking back control with RTM if they have over 25% commercial floorspace in their building. This is now being lifted to 50%, so if you are in a majority residential block, you can unlock democratic self-rule from next month. (It comes six years after the @Law_Commission consulted on Right to Manage reform and proposed to scrap the non-residential premises limit for RTM completely, before they were lobbied by industry and settled on 50%.)

Also, you will no longer be forced to pay your landlord’s legal fees, which beyond slashing the cost of an RTM claim will massively reduce the incentive for tactical game-playing by the other side to thwart your attempt to break free of their management monopoly and financial exploitation.

This shows you the power of ratcheting up political pressure on those who govern us. We’re not out of the woods yet though. Big Freeholders have hired @Keir_Starmer’s best mates to sue the government in a judicial review to get them to unwind their programme.

Back @FreeLeasehlders, the grassroots leasehold abolition campaign that never sleeps and which stands up to the establishment in this grossly unfair fight, by signing up for our mailing list now: https://t.co/gwyPl5Dbrs

[Liam Spender @LiamSpender]

Things must be bad when a paper tiger like TPI finally gets around to suspending FirstPort.

FirstPort is a sorry excuse for an organisation even considering the low bar set by its competitors.

It is also a company that has no business managing anyone else’s money.

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

📅 On Monday 3rd February, we will be joining a panel to give evidence to the @CommonsPAC Inquiry into Dangerous Cladding.

The Committee will then question senior officials from @mhclg & @HomesEngland.

📺 You can watch online from 3.30pm 👇
https://t.co/nnvYu0aOQS

[Julie Fraser @julie_board]

@EOCS_Official @AlexJJNorris Your evidence today was truthful and factual. Thank you on behalf of all leaseholders 🙌 @GilesGrover

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

Today @EOCS_Official co-lead Giles Grover told the Public Accounts Committee 🗣️

“I don’t know how I can be confident in a plan when the actual issues and the barriers to remediation haven’t been addressed.”

❗@AlexJJNorris what's the plan?

https://t.co/8Q7I5Tvic6

[Patsy Sweeney is on Bluesky @patsykew]

Sick and tired of being bounced around ref our badly built & damp flat @WillmottDixon built it, we have a serious problem with our window and no one is taking responsibility for fixing it. Mainstay & FirstPort contemptious disregard for taking responsibility 5 years,still nothing

[Catherine Williams OBE @cathnlc.bsky.social @cattwil]

Glenda(mum) thinks Amanda.... started drinking to deal with the anxiety of having to face unaffordable bills to fix the cladding, running into the tens of thousands
Incredibly sad story don't you agree @Keir_Starmer?
#leaseholdscandal #buildingsafety
https://t.co/oEKCCZZf8Y

[rachel bose @rachelbose1]

This is what cross party inaction has led to. Voting against #leaseholders to protect us from paying - Fire Safety Bill. Voted the same during Building Safety Bill. On the side of #freeholders/#construction industry not the 72 dead. Do what @michaelgove asked or Dagenham awaits!

[Sophie @SophieLB1]

"For her sake, we'd love to think that she had caused some small change." #buildingsafetycrisis
https://t.co/DV4WOz9Tm7

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

🗨️ "It had taken over her life"

Amanda Walker's mother Glenda spoke to BBC journalist Phil Hendry about the impact the building safety crisis had on her daughter 💔

#BBCbreakfast #BuildingSafetyCrisis

https://t.co/9NMtoCZkfC

[Gerri Ellis @eastender99]

@PhilH23 @TowerHamletsJL @mhclg @EOCS_Official @mtpennycook @AngelaRayner @section42 @NLC_2019 The tragedy of Amanda Walker must remind us of the urgency of reform in 2025, and of the truly toxic mix of current leasehold law with the #buildingsafetycrisis

[mark stratford @stratfordmark]

@PhilH23 @mhclg @EOCS_Official Shocking that someone's life was consumed and ultimately taked by the inability of government bodies and Parliament to enforce a resolution. Those responsible have blood on their hands!

[M Barnes Policy @mb_policy]

@PhilH23 @mhclg @EOCS_Official Amanda's tragic story is a stark reminder of the human cost of government inaction, when will Parliament act on the cladding scandal?