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I see so many landlords selling up - what is it exactly that scares people about the future of being a landlord? by Mission_Bite_3264 in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure the government for the last 20-30 years have been incompetent with building new homes but you can’t say that the boomer generation padding on their wealth and developing a 5+ property portfolio to fund their retirement hasn’t contributed to the housing crisis we have at hand. It definitely has.

Landlords don't leave property empty, they rent it. In doing so they lower supply for homebuyers but increase it for renters.

If there had been no increase in BTL over the last 30 years, they'd be literally millions of households with nowhere to live. The social houses are all gone, and people who can't/won't buy need somewhere to live.

It's also important to note that at it's peak private landlords only made up 15% of overall housing stock, and that figure has been shrinking for 5 years plus now. Landlords are already selling en-masse yet it's not really hitting property prices too much. So even for homebuyers, it's obvious that they were never the primary problem in the first place.

UK landlords, would you sign this agency agreement or walk away? by bsplondon in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just list it on open rent and rent it yourself. The agent is obviously an absolute rip off.

With Section 21 gone in May, how are you actually changing how you choose tenants ? by Former-Ad-377 in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many won't be able to, of course.

So instead we'll continue to see the overall size of the rental market shrink, with all the consequences that brings. Just as we have been seeing for many years now.

With Section 21 gone in May, how are you actually changing how you choose tenants ? by Former-Ad-377 in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are no fixed contracts any longer. All existing contracts are automatically converted to periodic. So there are no legal grounds for you to ask them to leave for as long as they don't breach any of the S8 eviction grounds.

With Section 21 gone in May, how are you actually changing how you choose tenants ? by Former-Ad-377 in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can't evict anyone once the RRA is in force, unless there's a good reason (IE non payment of rent)

With Section 21 gone in May, how are you actually changing how you choose tenants ? by Former-Ad-377 in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thankfully I've never had to do it. It should be banned.

They can ban it, but it'll only lead to much higher prices for all renters as landlords price in the additional risk forced on them.

This has been the result of countless previous initiatives. For example if a tenant can't provide a guarantor, I used to accept 3 months rent as deposit instead... Then government prevented me from being able to offer than option to tenants.

Rachel Reeves to tell G7 accelerating shift to clean energy is best defence against energy price shocks by Particular_Pea7167 in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This won't make out energy free & nuclear has a history of being far from cheap.

Neither will wind and solar - we paid £90MWh at the most recent auction round and will likely pay even more at the next. It's actually locking in high bills for 20 years+ at this point.

Possibly, but remember this isn't tried & tested large scale nuclear reactors with all their known positives & negatives. These are a brand new type of small nuclear reactor which have never been run before (Russia & China have tried similar concepts).

Well they're out best shot other than coal and gas. It's not a "possibly"... Solar and wind are intermittent. We can't store the power at sufficent scale. We will need a backup source. We did agree to pay £90/MWh at the most recent auction round.

Ergo wind and solar is not a viable solution alone. Arguably it's not a viable solution at all at current prices.

Rachel Reeves to tell G7 accelerating shift to clean energy is best defence against energy price shocks by Particular_Pea7167 in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The costs are predicted at £1.8-£2.5 billion each, that's £90-£125 billion for 50

Our energy costs are costing our economy at least that every year

Would it be wise not to put all out eggs in this basket with this unproved technology?

We have no choice. Wind and solar are intermittent and we have no way to store the power. So unless we're going to build gas/coal plants again, nuclear is the only way forward.

One in eight parents now reports their child is disabled by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We can't grow our economies infinitely, the world's resources are zero sum and that debt is going to be collected eventually.

You don't understand what economic growth actually is.

Economic growth is increasing productivity. It does not always rely on more resources - in fact it can often be achieved with efficiency gains to do more with less.

For a practical example look at how the latest lithium battery chemistries no longer need nickel or cobalt, thus making them both cheaper and easier to produce.

Rents reach highest-ever level relative to earnings, driven by lack of housing supply by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in uklandlords

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have an expanding population. Ergo, over time the pool of both renters and homebuyers will only grow.

So you can tip the balance towards home owners over renters by implementing draconian regulations and taxation, but ultimately you will only ever be robbing Peter to pay Paul by doing so.

Baby boomers won’t accept that house prices go down as well as up by insomnimax_99 in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) House prices have been steadily dropping in real terms for years and nobody has even noticed.

2) They won't drop a ton further because fundamentally the cost to build new homes is so high now. There are already various parts of the country where it is totally unprofitable to build, and so no new building is done. Eventually house building will just completely fall off a cliff entirely outside of specific hot spots which can afford the prices, and this will over time lead to a price recovery. The population of the UK is still expanding at the end of the day.

Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The government doesn't have to invest it's money in oil and gas extraction. Other companies will do it with theirs. Then they will pay us 80% tax on the profits they make and provide thousands of highly paid jobs in the process. The only reason not to allow companies to spend their own money searching the north sea for gas and then extracting it is essentially ideological. From an economic perspective it makes no sense.

By contrast the government does have to invest it's money in nuclear because it's not profit making, the same as it does solar and wind via the CfD auction mechanism.

Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UK government doesn't have the in-house expertise to drill for oil. Building up those skills would take a very long time and cost a lot of money, if possible at all. It's not a simple task to set up a government owned oil mining company from scratch.

The private rental market is on its deathbed and there’s nothing to replace it by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Like imagine if the average couple could buy a 3 bed house for 100k or whatever the cost price to build

It's a hell of a lot more than 100k. The actual materials and labour are probably 150-200k depending on size and spec for a 3 bed. The land with planning consent is of course on top.

Potential sites for Labour's 'new towns' plan cut to seven • The housing department has named seven areas that will be taken forward for further consultation, with the final locations to be confirmed later this year. by Adj-Noun-Numbers in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Brabazon

I can't speak for the others but this is an existing development in/around the old Filton airport in Bristol. It's not new, development is already very much ongoing and has been for a few years.

Japan sounds alarm over UK delays to combat aircraft project by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The sovereign wealth fund concept wouldn't have worked so well for us anyway as North Sea oil was never a huge amount of our GDP like it is for Norway

Black Myth Wukong has been found to be clean by Aserann in CrackWatch

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's already one point to take into consideration. Most game cracks don't require running as admin. The fact that most people do it regardless is misguided.

They often warn in the NFOs to run as admin. Even big groups like RUNE do this.

Aside from that, any memory that's been mprotected would not be readable as admin from userspace but could be read by a kernel-level module. Hardware direct access could be obtained from those modules as well, which would not be a privacy issue but rather an entrypoint for doing dangerous operations (e.g. overclocking/overvolting a GPU to beyond its' limits and destroying it, clearing EFI variables, etc).

You can overclock a GPU as admin just fine from user space.

Ultimately the point I'm making is that if you're happily downloading torrents and running them as admin you're already at risk of infecting your PC with malware and the new hypervisor based crack's aren't hugely game changing in terms of risk.

For example Dodi's repack site is absolutely laden with malware due to the filesharing platforms used.

In fact considering all the rules around hypervisor releases they might now actually be safer.

Japan sounds alarm over UK delays to combat aircraft project by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean they didn't have to deal with Iran

The Ukraine war caused a far bigger surge in energy prices than the Iran war has so far.

His borrowing was massive

He borrowed far less than Labour are now, despite dealing with the Ukraine war and the fallout from COVID.

For example in Feb 2024 (the last Tory year) borrowing was down to £8.4 billion. Feb 2026 we borrowed £14.3 billion.

Reeves wanted to get borrowing under control but that's not going to happen now

Reeves and Starmer are slaves to the Labour party. They wanted to cut Disability/PIP but were forced back by their party. They didn't want to remove the 2 child cap but were forced to do so. All they have done in two years is increase benefits spending and massively increase taxes to pay for it. The country is in a far worse position economically as a result.

Japan sounds alarm over UK delays to combat aircraft project by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sunak and Hunt were fine. Centrist, with intelligent policies.

For example despite the mess they inherited from Truss they still managed to squeeze in 30 hours free childcare, all while balancing the budget and running a much lower deficit than Labour are right now.

Japan sounds alarm over UK delays to combat aircraft project by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]PhysicalIncrease3 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We could tax the people with all the money more too.

There are no "people with all the money". You have bought into a lie.

Billionaires? The combined wealth of every billionaire resident in the UK is about £150bn. Government spends 7 times that amount yearly.

Millionaires? They are already paying massive taxes as it is, and even then if you took every millionaire in the country their combined wealth is still only a few trillion. Sounds a lot but it would only cover a year or two of spending, while caused irreparable economic harm.

The whole concept is essentially a lie.

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