What bothers me about both Reeves and Rayner, and their housing , is not that I believe either of them had any intention of deception or skullduggery. I think both acted with intended integrity.
What really bothers me is that in both cases these errors occurred because they were both slapdash and careless in not checking, and checking again, to make sure that, in an area, property transactions, that is such a hot potato if it goes even mildly wrong. They should have got some independent expert to check and then asked another.
I feel this reflects on the whole way the current administration, and this is not a party political point, governs. They are slapdash and careless. So many of the mistakes they make, like the two I have highlighted in another thread have happened because people were just careless, couldn;t be bothered to read documents properly, take on board what other people have said.
In their single minded determination to get things done, they cut corners, ignore anything that contradicts what they want to believe - and as a result they fall into traps like that Rayner and Reeves have fallen into personally and other policies have fallen into more generally.
well if I'd seen that in my paper work I'd have checked with the letting agent that I didn't need a licence, because I thought licences only applied to HMO's.