Norma Cohen
@NormaCohen3
PhD from QMUL 2020. Research on WWI finance. Ex-FT Demography Correspondent.Honorary actuary. [email protected] Follows #economics #pensions, #population.
This is the single most significant element of the UK government’s Pension Review. State Pension Age must be revised upwards quickly to prevent eventual collapse of the entire system.. GAD and the State Pension age review - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/new…
Hmm… Is this government really serious about leasehold reform? Or it content to just go through the motions?
🚨 NEW government delays on the leasehold front, conveniently confirmed the day Parliament was closing for summer hols 🚨 The governing powers are confused. And leaseholders aren’t amused. @e_casalicchio has the scoop in Playbook this evening. politico.eu/newsletter/lon…
Why were Deep-pocketed Freeholders in the High Court last week? If they can’t block legislation that curbs their freedom to demand endless cash from leaseholders, they will ask the Courts to do it for them.
📢 EXCLUSIVE MATTHEW WRIGHT @LBC INTERVIEW Toxic elites don’t need coups in this country. They can take back power through the judiciary. Having lost in elections and lost with Parliament, Big Freeholders now use lawfare! @UKLabour must hold firm and end leasehold for good.
The movement to free Leaseholders from the legal clutches of Freeholders who are currently allowed to squeeze them for cash is fortunate the have this young man, Harry Scoffin, to speak on their behalf. He is eloquent, articulate and a very hard-worker. Keep it up!
It’s great @LBC have continued their coverage of this week’s judicial review by Big Freeholders, criminally overlooked by the media. This is will of the people vs elites territory. Rich vested interests using lawfare to blow up an Act of Parliament. Video coming soon!
The legal action brought by wealthy Landowners in the High Court this past week has been nothing less than an attempt to do an end-run around Parliament to overturn efforts to limit their ability to demand unlimited cash from occupiers and users.
🚨 BIG FREEHOLDERS JUDICIAL REVIEW LAWFARE: THE VERDICT 🚨 Rich vested interests judicial review trolling the government is an attack on the will of the people. The freeholder lobby have tried everything this week. Woke feudalism. Class war. Granny’s gonna get it.…
Wealthy offshore landlord freeholders are going to Court to try to block government efforts to restrict their ability to demand endless cash from hapless leaseholders who occupy flats. Current law is a continuation of what kept medieval serfs tied to Lords centuries ago.
DEMOCRACY FOR WHO?! Vested interests weaponising judicial review to prop up a medieval system that gives the idle and offshore rich the whip hand over ordinary people in their homes. A story criminally overlooked by the media. Big props to @HenryRiley1 and @LBC for covering!
Land owners claim in Court that it is their ‘Human’ right to be allowed to extract as much cash from leaseholders over several generations as is physically possible. If they can’t persuade lawmakers, they fall back on the Court.
ELITES HIJACK DEMOCRACY OVER LEASEHOLD REFORM Without the Afghan Watergate scandal, this story would get more attention. Big money interests couldn’t win in elections or with lawmakers. They now unleash lawfare to thwart the will of the people. Sick! telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
And Freeholders are in Court to defend their right to continue to inflict unlimited charges on hapless leaseholders!
Apparently, even though you have bought and paid for yr flat, it shld be their human right to get a slice of supposed extra value, when u yr extend lease. And their human right to charge u their legal fees for the whole transaction. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Watch this: MPs on Housing & Local Govt Committee want to make sure Govt Ministers keep their promise to scrap leasehold law. Leaseholders are captive cash cows for Freeholders. It’s time for this centuries-old law to end. Now!
We asked the Housing Minister, @MtPennycook, whether the Government is committed to ending leasehold by the end of this Parliament.
Throughout centuries, landowners in Britain have had extraordinary political powers reinforcing their ability to demand cash from land occupiers and users. Now, landowners are making a legal challenge to government efforts to trim their ability to make cash demands.
Companies which extract cash from hapless people in their homes are today invoking human rights law to overturn the will of Parliament and prop up a positively feudal system of landlord and serf not used in the rest of the world. Obscene! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
A group of wealthy owners of residential buildings are challenging government efforts to rein in their ability to demand uncontrolled cash payments from leasehold occupiers. The cash demands are so great that leaseholders are finding flats unsaleable. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
An overdue measure to block commercial landlords who hold commercial tenants to ransom. The fact that these clauses exist talks to the political power of landowners in Britain. Companies to gain right to negotiate cheaper office rents in England ft.com/content/02897c… via @ft
It sounds like Labour are doing little more than going through the motions of Leasehold law reform instead of tackling the abuses head-on! Tinkering around the edges will not do! End Leasehold now! @FreeLeasehlders archive.ph/2025.07.08-103…
What sort of reform is it if all it does is open the door for endless legal pursuits of Freeholders determined to extract as much cash as possible from leaseholders? Freeholders can tie occupiers up in Court forever! End Leasehold now! @FreeLeasehlders
TRANSPARENCY WON’T STOP THE LOOTING We have jobs, families and lives. The government cannot give leaseholders rights to information and expect us to become serial litigators. Flush out the freeloading freeholders. We need control, not more servitude. telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
The Leasehold ‘Trap’ won’t suddenly become affordable because of new rules making it easier to fight Freeholder and Managing Agents demands for cash. Leaseholders will spend all their time and £££ in Court. Scrap Leasehold now! @FreeLeasehlders thetimes.com/life-style/pro…
This post is a public service announcement for Americans. Read it and take notes.
Let’s go through — one by one — 16 of the most vulnerable Republican House incumbents for 2026 that voted for this abomination of a bill that cuts Medicaid & SNAP benefits for millions of Americans, while cutting taxes for the rich. Remember this day. Remember these names. 🧵
The Housing Minister is completely missing the point. Managing Agents do what the Freeholders who appoint them tell them to do. The only way to block abuses is to bar anyone who does not pay service charges from voting on choice of Managing Agent. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
Trump shows us whose side he’s on:
Could there be anything stupider than the US unilaterally cutting the remaining supplies of its weapons to Ukraine, and then Trump a day later asking Putin to agree a ceasefire?
Could there be anything stupider than the US unilaterally cutting the remaining supplies of its weapons to Ukraine, and then Trump a day later asking Putin to agree a ceasefire?
Pleading with Freeholders and/or their managing agents is a complete wasted effort. Why do you think they are fighting tooth and nail, taking legal action, to block any government action to curb their ability to extract cash from occupiers. Get real and legislate.
We have written to FirstPort and Rendall & Rittner about the transparency of fees and their handling of complaints, following our evidence session on property management companies.