Susan

I've never, 24 years doing this, and I've never known anything like the amount of misinformation and uncertainty.

But the blame is the worst thing.

The way figures are being twisted and we're being put in a position of having to defend having extra accommodation available, apparently available.

In my own case, I've offered our two farm cottages for long-term rental.

But

Potential tenants say it's too remote, there's no public transport and they're traditional buildings so they're expensive to heat in the winter.

I'd probably make the same sort of money for a lot less work if I had my tenants in.

But as I say, it's 24 years, it's my job and nobody else has been put in a position of being asked to give up their premises for housing.

or having new and very burdensome regulations forcing them out.

So it's a difficult time.

You know, you can probably tell from listening to us that we're all a bit under stress about this.

Yeah, they think that this law will help.

And I know they're not targeting the likes of me and Siobhan and Lorna.

I know we're not the target, but we're going to be collateral damage because it's a kind of a one-size-fits-all.

They're tweaking it a bit now to make it that the rural areas will have slightly different conditions.

We don't know what the conditions are.

You know, that's part of our frustration.

Yeah, I mean, look, this is a situation where, you know, you've seen Republicans basically abandon their longstanding views about states' rights and federalism.

And, you know, now all of a sudden, Mike Johnson is the one who decides that it's the job of the federal speaker of the House to be commenting on questionable election practices in states that he doesn't like or that elect Democrats.

You know, the decentralization