Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "ITV News"
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Can't blame the council for this, they have finite resources and demand beyond what those resources can accommodate.
This is what happens when you allow the private rental model to change from a long term investment where the landlord gets an asset at the end, and eventually after everything is paid off makes an income on rent, to one where landlords use rent as the asset and their day to day income. Being a landlord is NOT a job, you are not a "businessman" because you own property and extort the vulnerable.
Rent is not intended to generate profit for a landlord from the purchase of a property. It's not even intended to cover the whole of a mortgage payment.
There need to be greater safeguards in place in addition to scrapping section 12 evictions. Things like how frequently rent can go up, and the percentage increase that it can go up by. The latter needs to be linked to the property not the tenant and apply regardless of whether a tenant is in a property or not.
Yes, that would pull many of the people who are using the wrong business model out of the landlord market. But, those properties do not disappear. They go up for sale, where another landlord, council or an owner occupier can buy them. So the net property supply remains more or less the same. The incentive to be a landlord remains as it always has, you get a subsidised asset.
Supply obviously needs to be increased but realistically that isn't going to be delivered in any meaningful way for 5-10 years. It takes time to build liveable homes. Supply alone is not the answer, you don't solve these fundamental problems in the system of rental housing changing from long term investment to a short term business model with supply. Fixing that now will ease the rental crisis now and ensure it's a robust system into the future.
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Every management and HR team in every organisation in the capitalist world , be it private, public or otherwise has to handle staff complains about other members of staff. More frequently than not these are empty complaints. IR law, and many employment contracts (particularly where a union is involved such as in nursing) grant employees strong protections against persecution, harrassment or workplace bullying. These protections mean that a manager can not approach an employee about a thing without sufficient, strong evidence they've done something wrong, let alone sanction the employee. Employees have legal recourse for employers whom act in this way friviously.
NHS management do not have special labour rules, they can't ignore an employee's rights. They abide by the same IR laws as everyone else and have union negotiated contracts to consider. They need evidence before they can act, so too do police.
What do you suppose would happen if we removed those protections from employees and required management to persecute employees on every claim?
There were several thousand staff complaints about other members of staff at the same hospital over the same period. The majority of which were nothing. The usual, personality conflicts, attempts at workplace bullying, third party conjecture, etc. What do you suppose would have made this case, these complaints, stand out against that backdrop?
It's all well and good to fain shock and call for change over this case in isolation, with the benefit of hindsight but that isn't how things play out in reality. Identifying a staff member as a freaking serial killer, in real time, without the benefit of hindsight, with no actual evidence and halfcock complaints from other staff is hard, if not impossible.
There are always people who come out of the woodwork in cases like this talking about how they've been in whatever role for however long and blah blah blah everyone should be outraged.
But you know what, I've been in medicine for 18 years and I'm going to say that's a load of bollocks. Staff in hospitals bully each other. Sometimes that bullying can involve a group picking on a single member of staff. Sometimes that bullying can involve frivious or unfounded complaints against the bullying victim. Sometimes complaints can jump to unfounded conclusions about another staff member.
Focusing on the management team because your outrage over this case isn't satisfied yet is misplaced. Instead, the inquiry should focus on what it is that drives a disproportionate number of English nurses to murder their patients compared to comparable nations. What is happening inside the nursing training and recruitment processes in addition to/or everyday role that motivates this to happen? Witch hunts don't solve anything, let's instead treat the cause.
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