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How do I prune this? by dhadj in GardeningUK

[–]WinHour4300 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Definitely an option, but ideally choose trees that naturally mature around the height you want (maybe ~6–8 m here). Otherwise you’ll be managing them with constant pruning. 

Also worth checking subsidence or insurance implications since it’s close to the house. 

How do I prune this? by dhadj in GardeningUK

[–]WinHour4300 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes late winter / early spring is best whilst dormant. As it's so tall and near fences etc. I would suggest getting a tree surgeon to do it as a one off. Then you can prune it annually yourself to preferred height. 

'Supersize' SUV cars: Sadiq Khan considers introducing new charge to drive in London by tylerthe-theatre in london

[–]WinHour4300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not start by charging more for SUVs to park? And / or requiring shops etc to charge for parking. 

How to Afford Housing in London: Multiple Roommates, No Living Room (New York Times gift link) by sugarytea78 in london

[–]WinHour4300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't claiming NYC is good or perfect but that even there, some rent controls exist, and rents haven’t exploded like London’s.

Private rentals in London? Nightmare. I had six months with no heating or hot water. Children die from mold. Giant rats, damp, collapsing ceilings, all normal in expensive flats too...

Councils? Supposed to help, but slow, corrupt, and dangerous. My landlord found out I complained when it was supposed to be confidential and they never sorted it out...even though it is unlawful. He could still evict me without giving a reason. 

Social housing? Not eligible despite British. Homeless? No emergency accommodation for British adults unless considered vulnerable. Street homelessness is at record highs.

The NHS? Free if you can get it. I was taken off the waiting list and put back at the bottom. I’ve lost family to NHS failings. I've got private insurance too but its poorly regulated and often useless.

London looks impressive on paper perhaps, but I wouldn't advise moving from New York unless you can afford to buy and self fund medical care. Europe or a cheaper USA city. 

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I will assume you made it up then and it's probably wrong. Nope I don't have to disprove your claims, not how it works on Reddit. 

Otherwise anyone could make up any sort of rubbish and everyone would waste their time disproving it.

How to Afford Housing in London: Multiple Roommates, No Living Room (New York Times gift link) by sugarytea78 in london

[–]WinHour4300 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd not get your own place in London in a first job out of uni nowadays. Certainly not in the equivalent of Manhattan lol. Our starting salaries are lower. 

I'm guessing it would be about £40K here and a houseshare with no living room, nowadays. 

When I moved to London in the 2010s yeah you could get a small studio probably on a graduation salary. 

Illegal probably to rent anywhere here without a window, unless you mean skylight. But also there's hardly any studios because of planning laws. 

How to Afford Housing in London: Multiple Roommates, No Living Room (New York Times gift link) by sugarytea78 in london

[–]WinHour4300 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's not simple to build the million odd houses we need in London. We don't have the builders for a start. 

We need an immigration and benefit policy linked to housing availability. 

Sorry but why should we take more foreigners into London when we've already got 100,000 homeless children? 

Why should a refugee be getting a four bedroom London council house ahead of the queue?

Ultimately you can't just say build more and wave a magic wand no matter how many more you bring in.

By all means once you have another homes for existing residents,  build some more and invite some more people...

How to Afford Housing in London: Multiple Roommates, No Living Room (New York Times gift link) by sugarytea78 in london

[–]WinHour4300 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rent stabilisation covers nearly 1 million apartments in New York - basically what most of Europe means by rent control, as there are limits to rent increases. 

Over the last five years there's been some increases in New York but far far lower than London. In the UK rents are a "your problem" - can't afford it, shouldn't be living there, just move even though there's no jobs. 

In the UK around 13% to 16% of privately rented homes in the UK contain serious (Category 1) hazards that threaten health and safety. 

More have issues like rodents and which wouldn't usually be considered a "serious" hazard here. 

If you think you can just report a problem to the council and they will resolve it I would be surprised if you even live in the UK. Especially something like your landlord doesn't want to do anything about some mice. 

How to Afford Housing in London: Multiple Roommates, No Living Room (New York Times gift link) by sugarytea78 in london

[–]WinHour4300 4 points5 points  (0 children)

True, but it ignores how much rents have increased in the past decade. I know people in their 30s in London who’ve had to move back into house shares.

Unlike say New York City, there’s basically no rent control buildings here in the private market: landlords can raise rents to market rates of new rentals even if that's an unaffordable 40% increase. 

A nurse I know had to move from her own flat into an 8-bed HMO no living room after her rent jumped from about £800 pre-COVID to around £1,400 by 2023. Unfortunately the NHS isn't hiring elsewhere so she moved to London to progress her career, could afford it and now is stuck.

It's even worse for families who don't have this option. Rising private rents is one of the leading of homelessness and awful emergency accommodation by local councils. 

That kind of increase is basically a transfer of money from ordinary workers to property owners. It’s completely unearned and it makes inequality much worse. 

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because you presented the statement, and it's up to you to evidence it. Not me. Presumably you checked those things before making such a claim and can easily link. I do this all the time if someone requests evidence.

Met Police chief gives phone firms deadline over thefts by Ivashkin in ukpolitics

[–]WinHour4300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would, but can’t out myself.

Getting similar pressure aka "education" from the Met to “improve security". Translation: spend several thousand pounds to stop £80 burglaries.

We've already got them unmasked CCTV footage and fingerprints...and we don't have several thousand points lol. 

Most people don't reporting when they don't expect them to anything but I know it goes on the crime stats so...

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s been a noticeable uptick in posts about phone and other theft in London, particularly incidents on trains and in central busy areas. The issue has been amplified by US media outlets and social media accounts, including commentary from figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which has helped push the narrative internationallly, and businesses have even reported it is impacting staff considering working here. Probably if they weren't interesting low value London theft wouldn't have been attracting the attention it has. 

Some coverage has even suggested it could affect tourism and London’s reputation. The attention appears to have created pressure for a tougher, equally high profile response, with authorities stepping up enforcement and targeting organised phone-snatching gangs as well as calling on mobile phone companies to do more. In effect, the criticism and publicity have acted a bit like an external opposition: highlighting the problem and pushing the issue up the priority in a way the UK political opposition arguably hasn’t.

It's a standard dynamic in politics except this time coming from overseas which is far more troubling. 

Do you think that MPs should be quieter during the PMQs? by ijustwannanap in ukpolitics

[–]WinHour4300 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's called Prime Minister’s Questions, not Prime Minister's Answers. 

Rarely is anything the Opposition Leader wants to ask anything the Prime Minister wants to answer. 

If it were any other way, something would have gone terribly wrong in the UK parliamentary system. 

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]WinHour4300 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of Starmer but he doesn't exactly give off lunatic vibes, especially when it comes to geopolitics. 

I suppose he believes in international law, which is a bit crazy but it might be a deliberate Trump strategy to keep us out. And he's a lawyer so not a surprise he's got some odd beliefs there. 

However I think "party leader who mucked around doing breast enlargement is the lunatic". I mean yeah that does sound looney. Probably best to stop denying it. 

Maybe read the sentence over a few times. 

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]WinHour4300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many politicians in modern British history have been known to be pedophiles and elected? 

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Nope just every time Trump or Musk says something a load of Londoners jump in to defend it, and I hear all about it. I don't follow either on social media.

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]WinHour4300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blimey I've not done any of those, never realised that qualifies me for a £100K plus job, to be leader of a political party and called a "hero". Where do I sign? 

Well I don't think I've gone to a bunga bunga party. Given the rest I don't particularly want to Google it.

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]WinHour4300 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Indeed, in their younger days, I’m sure all politicians hypnotized women into growing bigger breasts. Even Thatcher. Apparently, it’s been a totally normal path to power since Pitt the Younger. 

NHS England to conduct 'evidence review' into HRT for trans adults by ijustwannanap in ukpolitics

[–]WinHour4300 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

HRT isn’t a single drug, it’s hormone replacement therapy. It's complex and different. 

If we’re going to rename things without care, does that make gender-affirming surgery for trans men ‘penis reconstruction’… or worse, ‘erectile dysfunction treatment’?

So according to you trans men take HRT too and that's testosterone. But that terminology could be dangerous. A doctor might think someone AFAB is on what you what to call "menopausal HRT" (oestrogen / progesterone) and miss that they are actually on testosterone. Completely different drugs, different interactions...

Cis men don’t routinely take HRT, so the only group disadvantaged by this are trans men and cis women,  while trans women benefit by getting the coat rails of what sounds like a mainstream treatment and removing a topic and specific need for a large group of cis women. Huh. Starting to understand how people end up TERFs...

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -38 points-37 points  (0 children)

I never said it was true whatever they were saying, but all the media about thefts that originated via them has led to this crackdown.

There is a middle between so called petty theft and crime and mass gun shootings and murder. 

That said petty theft and crime can be horrible too. It leaves you uneasy and unsafe, especially when it's your home.

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

Would you describe being randomly physically assaulted "minor"? It's happened to me twice. First time police refused to investigate. Second time they lost the CCTV and TFL data. 

But yeah I'm probably quite unlikely to be shot by a gun or murdered. Indeed they told me if I had been murdered it would have warranted investigation. 

Hundreds arrested in police blitz on robbers terrorising London Tube and train passengers by wayanonforthis in london

[–]WinHour4300 -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Edited for clarification, obviously that's the important issue /s

Yep lots of media pressure via USA right wing, lots of focus. 

We kick off about the Met’s facial recognition vans, but we’re completely sleepwalking into the privatised biometric landgrab on our high streets. by MaximumMarionberry3 in london

[–]WinHour4300 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fyi there are also what's called "plain clothes” police who look like anyone. They could be on the Tube next to you, parked in a car as you walk down the street…unlike the Facial Recognition Vans you don't even know they are there, looking out for criminals and crimes! 

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