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Personal acc. views my own. N. Irish South Londoner #EndOurCladdingScandal #BuildingSafetyCrisis
Leaseholders didn’t build, didn’t draw up the building regs, didn’t sign-off buildings as safe & fit for sale, do not own any aspect of the building & cannot sell their leases until “make safe” extortionate costs are paid. Literally hostages in their homes. @RobertJenrick #GMB
Since the Grenfell Tower fire, 462 high-rise buildings are identified as having dangerous cladding in England. William Martin lives in one of those buildings and tells #BBCBreakfast it's made his life "miserable" bbc.in/2TB7PC7
Legal hour, consumer hour, now leaseholder hour, Matthew’s right you may as well have your own slot at the rate of this drag. Thanks @LBC crew for keeping us in the (never ending) loop.
📢 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.
Labour had a clear mandate to END leasehold. Instead, they’re dancing to the tune of developers and freeholders. Leaseholders aren't just being ignored — we’re being sacrificed. This isn’t reform. It’s betrayal. @FreeLeasehlders
🗞️ BURYING A BAD STORY 🗞️ A @UKLabour government with a mandate to END leasehold is now taking cues from vested interest lawfare and judicial review trolling? Voters being looted in their homes told to keep waiting as Big Money keeps suing. The system is working as intended.
🚨 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…
The very worst thing for cladding/BSA hostage leaseholders about the Labour government is the absolute loss of hope. When anger turns to electoral punishment they will only have themselves to blame.
Another great interview by @HarryScoffin and @FreeLeasehlders. The government is under a lot of pressure to deliver on this issue, and rightly so.
📢 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.
Labour insist they have taken "swift action" on their mission to abolish leasehold - but 12 months after taking office, leaseholders continue to face rocketing service charges, multiplying ground rents and liability for dodgy building practices kumailhjaffer.substack.com/p/ministers-re…
The battle has moved from Parliament to the courts. Leaseholders are under attack—not by democracy, but by Big Freeholders weaponising the legal system. Labour must defend the will of the people. #EndLeasehold @HarryScoffin @LBC
📢 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.
Last week, Big Freeholders disgraced democracy with their judicial review trolling. The government will no doubt be sued again. But @UKLabour has the 2nd biggest parliamentary majority in its 125-year history. They can tell the freeholder lobby to do one. And free people!
📢 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.
Totally. Commonhold isn't DIY, it's about choice. The "agency canard" is just fearmongering — we already manage our lives, why not our homes?
Ah yes, the "agency canard" strikes again. The power to choose your gardener is not the obligation to do the gardening yourself. docs.google.com/document/d/1l6…
TODAY'S LESSON ON GETTING CAUGHT OUT AND AN APOLOGY TO @krishgm Govt claimed yesterday that the £100 billion cost to nationalise the water industry is accurate and that the figures did not come from water companies. Really? Let's see shall we. On the 23rd July 2024 Baroness…
Be more Betty people….
'I'm so disappointed that my country is treating its honest, hardworking people the way that it has' 92 year old Betty Brown, the oldest victim of the Post Office's Horizon IT scandal, told #BBCBreakfast of her anger at still waiting for her case to be settled…
The silence won’t last much longer. A video is coming that will expose exactly what’s at stake in this judicial review. Parliament passed the law. The elite want it undone. Watch this space. 👀🔥 @FreeLeasehlders
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!
I’m happy that @HarryScoffin is a voice for leaseholders - he has hit all the right headliners in this interview. @mtpennycook why is there no leaseholder representatives in the juridical review? Why is this between GOV and exploitive offshore entities. Give us back our lives!
📢 EXCLUSIVE @HenryRiley1 @LBC INTERVIEW 📢 @UKLabour cannot let lawfare paralyse them. They can walk and chew gum at the same time – fight the judicial review AND push through a new law. They have their second biggest majority in their 125-year history – it’s time to use it!
Leasehold system is peak value extraction. There’s a building where the service charge skyrocketed because of refurbishment works. When they asked the freeholder if the service charge would go down after the work is done they said ‘they don’t know’ that shit is a huge con
Who governs this country? Is it the idle and offshore rich using lawfare to blow up an Act of Parliament? Or is it the democratically-elected government?
🚨 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.…
Edward Fitzgerald KC, our Prime Minister’s former boss who wrote a book with him on the death penalty and is representing a freeholder, claims an amendment on marriage value in the Lords can’t be relied upon because it was withdrawn and Parliament didn’t vote on it. lol
👀 Government press release on their remediation "acceleration" plan is out. If you're in a mid-rise building, the deadline to fix your building will be... 2031. 14 years after Grenfell. gov.uk/government/new…
A special town. A special coastline. A special course. Hard to not fall in love with Portrush.
Fantastic work by @HarryScoffin and @FreeLeasehlders as per usual. The bar for freeholders to get their arguments to stick in court fortunately is high. But unfortunately, the bar for their overall success is low. They just need to keep the status quo, and unless @mtpennycook and…
📢 EXCLUSIVE @HenryRiley1 @LBC INTERVIEW 📢 @UKLabour cannot let lawfare paralyse them. They can walk and chew gum at the same time – fight the judicial review AND push through a new law. They have their second biggest majority in their 125-year history – it’s time to use it!