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Certainly not helping the housing crisis.
Insanely high rent charges only form part of the story because, even if you can clearly demonstrate that you have the ability to pay this amount of Mental Money every month, you will STILL not be allowed to rent any property unless you have a credit score that is “Very Good”. Having a “Good” credit score will get you nowhere, and you would be best advised to crawl off and die somewhere pretty darned soon. No, only a “Very Good” score will impress the Einsteins who operate as letting agents.
One of our local rags down here carries the horrible story of a lady who lost her business, her only source of income, and as a consequence lost her home when the bank repossessed it. The cause of her livelihood being removed was the fat count Boris Johnson’s slavish adherence to the Davos billionaires, and their demands for illegal and unnecessary lockdowns. She now exists in an existential hell as she seeks shelter in one of those ‘Living Pods’ we have all heard about, her’s being situated in Newquay. The fact that she is a blameless and hard working individual who has been cast into penury through no fault of her own cuts no ice with the Einsteins, who regard her as something they might scrape off the bottom of their shoes.
I realise, of course, that these people are not scientists, astronauts or surgeons for a very good reason; they are letting agents because they make a smaller amount of mess in the office than the chimps who also applied for their incredibly simple positions. But the fact that these four king morons have the power to make or break entire families, and to consign decent human beings to living on the streets, is utterly depressing. I do not wish to sound uncharitable, of course, but…..well, I’m sure you can all hazard a guess………
