It puts food on his family’s table and keeps a roof over their heads. Any job is better than posting lame takes online for a couple of dollars from a blue tick.
Isleworth Crown Court is now listing trials for December 2030.
Let that sink in. We’re in May 2026 — and we’re only a few weeks away from trials being listed in 2031.
This isn’t the fault of the judges or court staff at Isleworth, who are working flat out with the resources they’ve been given. The blame lies squarely with the Ministry of Justice’s weapons-grade incompetence and chronic failure to manage the courts properly.
Delays on this scale are not just inconvenient — they’re a serious injustice. Defendants wait years in limbo. Victims wait years for justice. Witnesses forget. Evidence degrades. Lives are put on hold.
And now we’re being told that this entirely avoidable crisis is being used as an excuse by the Government to chip away at jury trials.
That is not reform. It’s disgraceful.
More than a third of leaseholders can’t sell or remortgage due to high service charges.
This is a miss-selling scandal the likes of which we have never seen before.
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@GlenSmith174927@HarryScoffin A lot of flats are valued at zero as a result of the fallout since Grenfell. It is extremely difficult to remortgage. I was a first time buyer who put down 35% on a 2 bed flat. It's been unsellable for the last 6 years and on top of that the service charge has now reached £7k pa
@rcolvile I’m semi retired these days, so thought I was under the limit. Turns out it’s based on turnover and not profit.
They’re referring to turnover as ‘income’. HMRC is run by ignorant children.
Get your filing wrong and all sorts of sanctions follow.
But, just like HMRC, when THEY fail, zero consequences.
“The state as servant not master” feels like a vanishing dot in the rear view mirror.
Absolutely dreading the next few weeks and what will drop regarding 2026 service charges as well as the repeated sec 20 notices which can’t even get the date right. I’m almost 50 and living like this is absolutely ridiculous !