“As the necessity of extending the eviction ban grows ever more obvious, we must remember: Your landlord is not your friend. They are not your genial host. They sustain themselves by leeching from you all they can get, in exchange for which they occasionally send someone round to fix the boiler.”
landlords
“There is absolutely no good reason why Scotland should not seek to replicate the French ‘winter truce’, or trêve hivernale, which officially prohibits evictions between 1 November and 31 March.”
The eviction ban highlights the need for a permanent Scottish ‘winter truce’
“What we have learned over the past year is that the planet can be thrown into an upheaval without precedent, and the renter’s lot will remain an unchanging, unloved constant.”
Sean Bell: If the pandemic couldn’t break the stranglehold of landlords on Scotland, what will?
Let’s develop a little scorecard on where we are with the economic measures in the UK and Scotland to cope with our new pandemic-world. For corporations, we have 80 per cent of the wages they owe workers affected by Covid-19 covered by government. That’s a significant drop in their costs, overnight. For banks, we have […]
The bailout scorecard
“Profiteering is making the market more fragile, and exposing the profound weaknesses that have been bred into the economy by recent trends.”
The Covid profiteers: How the great coronavirus robbery is already underway
“The Scottish Government must seriously consider how much of the nation’s welfare it is prepared to endanger in an effort to keep those who profit from the private rented sector sweet”