Scottish Parliament f**k-ups

[Thane of Cawdor]

On 23/09/2021 at 12:26, strichener said:

As someone that lives miles from a railway station, public transport is exclusively busses here.  I used to think the same as you regarding service times but the reality is that if there was a way of making money out of earlier/later services either through passenger numbers or subsidies then the companies would be doing it.  There is no appetite from local councils to increase subsidies.

 

1 hour ago, herovtret said:

As someone who resides far from a railway station, relying solely on buses for public transport, I appreciate your perspective. Indeed, the financial viability of extending service hours plays a crucial role. If there were profitable opportunities—whether through increased passenger ridership or government subsidies—transport companies would likely seize them. However, it seems that local councils currently lack the appetite to enhance subsidies.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[Miguel Sanchez]

A genuinely fascinating sequence of posts.

[Caledonian1]

2 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

A genuinely fascinating sequence of posts.

very strange indeed, almost identical posts yet a gap of 2.5 years. What is going on here?

[BFTD]

Presumably some kind of AI that's rephrasing other posts to fit in before the inevitable BUY CRYPTO reveal.

The question is, why do they feel the need to do this? Do other forums have something in place where you need to have made a certain number of legit messages before you can post hyperlinks or something?

[strichener]

I hope all my posts haven't been consumed by some AI LLM.  If they have, the internet will be full of even more shite than it currently is.

I wouldn't suggest that Jim McInally asks ChatGPT to generate his CV. 

[Lurkst]

8 hours ago, Caledonian1 said:

very strange indeed, almost identical posts yet a gap of 2.5 years. What is going on here?

Not sure but it might spark a debate on the plural of bus.

 

[Alan Twelve]

On 31/03/2024 at 09:45, Lurkst said:

Not sure but it might spark a debate on the plural of bus.

 

Which kind of bus..?

[Dunning1874]

In news of something the Scottish Government have actually fucked up which will have a disastrous impact on people, rather than the media focusing on their imaginary interpretation of a bill passed over two years ago, rent controls which capped annual increases at 3% and the moratorium on evictions expired yesterday.

These had been introduced in 2022 on an emergency basis in response to the cost of living crisis, and they've just published a bill for permanent controls to be introduced which will also allow councils a role in deciding the extent of a cap on increases (and would allow that cap to be 0%) but that's going to be years away from coming into effect even if it doesn't end up watered down heavily on the way through parliament.

Simply allowing any sort of restriction to end in the meantime is disastrous and is predictably seeing landlords impose utterly egregious increases as soon as they get the opportunity, with some increases greater than 80% already being reported. There's supposed to be a tribunal process to challenge unreasonable hikes but the vast majority of tenants aren't going to have the ability to go through that process even if they have been made aware of it.

The new bill likely won't start making its way through parliament until 2026 so probably won't come into effect until 2028 at the earliest. Renters are being left at the mercy of landlords for years by the government and this is going to make the housing crisis considerably worse.

[Hiram Holliday]

The First Minister has found a new barrel to scrape the bottom of, with this hate bill.

[GTG_03]

On 31/03/2024 at 09:45, Lurkst said:

Not sure but it might spark a debate on the plural of bus.

 

Bii ?

[effeffsee_the2nd]

On 02/04/2024 at 22:38, Dunning1874 said:

In news of something the Scottish Government have actually fucked up which will have a disastrous impact on people, rather than the media focusing on their imaginary interpretation of a bill passed over two years ago, rent controls which capped annual increases at 3% and the moratorium on evictions expired yesterday.

These had been introduced in 2022 on an emergency basis in response to the cost of living crisis, and they've just published a bill for permanent controls to be introduced which will also allow councils a role in deciding the extent of a cap on increases (and would allow that cap to be 0%) but that's going to be years away from coming into effect even if it doesn't end up watered down heavily on the way through parliament.

Simply allowing any sort of restriction to end in the meantime is disastrous and is predictably seeing landlords impose utterly egregious increases as soon as they get the opportunity, with some increases greater than 80% already being reported. There's supposed to be a tribunal process to challenge unreasonable hikes but the vast majority of tenants aren't going to have the ability to go through that process even if they have been made aware of it.

The new bill likely won't start making its way through parliament until 2026 so probably won't come into effect until 2028 at the earliest. Renters are being left at the mercy of landlords for years by the government and this is going to make the housing crisis considerably worse.

None of these things will do anything to fix the problem.   If landlords can't make a profit that outweighs their responsibilities then they simply won't bother and will sell up & leave the market., properties will be sold but most won't be sold to those who are currently renting them.  If landlords are allowed to behave as they like then they will do just that.  The only real solution is to build plenty of social housing to make a serious dent in the list. Not a wee block of flats here and there, you need whole new schemes similar to those built after world war two ( hopefully with lessons learned from those ventures)

After that, private letting can go back to filling it's normal goal of providing short to medium term accommodation for people whom it actually suits to do that - students etc

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Another sock puppet heading straight for the Politics forum.

Just bin the racist little fucker.