[the truth]

well the idiotic welsh government have only gone and done it now.......they are saying in law now all 50,000 landlords in wales MUST pay the welsh government for licenses to rent their own privately owned houses AND they MUST also pay to attend courses to qualify as landlords

they actually think this will tackle homelessness...wtf?

this is insane
it will treble homelessness

the problem is already monstrous as the government passed laws to pay the housing benefit direct to tenants...in many cases they tenants do not hand over the money and they lose communication with the landlords and let the house fall into disrepair deliberately...its happened to me and many other landlords around here

these rogue tenants even go and report the house and then move and keep the rent...the housing department then hammer the landlord even further.....

so landlords get their homes destroyed
their rent stolen
the council then give them a list of home improvements they must make and compulsory fines of several hundred pounds
and they must now buy a license to rent
then pay to attend courses
and they must pass all these compulsory courses

ridiculous


the people who need chasing up on are tenants in many cases who don't have a clue how to maintain a property safely or pay their rents
the benefit should go direct to the landlord anyway its his/her money...he/she takes all the risks and has to pay for all costs and damage and improvements and running repairs etc

I came to wales from England because its a better quality of life...more space more hills more beaches etc and the people are generally friendly

BUT now the welsh government have their power through the back door...im afraid I must flee the country as will many many more

I always feared wales would become almost a communist country if allowed to run its own affairs and lo and behold we have it

parking fees here are crazy, speed bumps, endless new traffic lights, government waste, council waste and burocracy, new rules left right and centre....the traffic here is worse than many cities in England, the town centres are now falling apart due to the lack of traffic flow and huge rates with the council and this is much smaller place, but this new compulsory law is the politics of envy...anyone seen to try and get on in life and be a successful business person is torn down....even the severn bridges costs the welsh economy tens of millions..if you had a van in Bristol would you pay £15 every day to cross to Newport?

all down to the culture of wasting all this years budget to ensure we get the same amount to waste next year? when will the welsh government run out of other peoples money and when will England and Scotland have to rescue them again? I read a figure once that more people per head in wales are employed by the state than in old mother Russia...in the end it leads to poverty and crime and the loss of revenues going to the treasury which hits public services and hits the welsh nhs as weve seen with disastrous consequences....no one from the business community EVER attends these council meetings about roads transport developments licensing....so they never actually estimate the economic damage they do with their endless wasteful spending and petty burocracy


so quangoland here is fast becoming Romania, maybe heading towards cuba and old Russia....if you look at the percentages were virtually communist here now and its you tax payers in England and Scotland who will have to bail out the welsh unless you want Romania in your back yard

via la revolution