Breaking Section 21 News – The plot thickens!

Very odd indeed. Perhaps the Lib Dems think they can get this in before an Election and get some foolish Tories to vote for it.
Baroness Grender was director of communications for Shelter. The draft Bill https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2019-2020/0034/20034.pdf is very short but clearly has been some time in the drafting. I would need to scrutinise it but at first glance it is rather simplistic. It abolishes ASTs altogether. It has a transition period so it does not apply to existing lettings retrospectively until after three years. It does not deal specifically with student lettings or HMOs. It does not appear to bring forward to s8 claims all the obstacles to s21 claims (a good thing).
I suggest landlords write to their MPs encouraging them to vote against it on the grounds, if no other, that it is premature and ignores the consultation submissions which are being reviewed.

For some time now The government, councils and the so called housing charity Shelter which houses nobody have waged a war against private landlords. Shelter in particular thrive off the evil landlord narrative. This £60m organisation has continually called for the abolition of s21, ie the undermining of property owners rights. We can bow down and whinge and take it or we can say enough is enough. 94% of landlords do not belong to a landlord association. Is it fair that those landlords who do must fight on behalf of the silent meek majority. Our advise is simple. Do not keep swimming against the tide. We at the Alliance will battle non stop for our members but we also will impart advice that no other landlord association will dare give, for fear of losing members. We say landlords abandon the market. Look overseas at investment opportunities. Dis invest pull your funds out of uk lets. Lets give the haters what they want. Less landlords, less choice, higher rents and freeze out benefit tenants. Those landlords left standing will have a bigger better pool to choose from. The Alliance will be there to advise and battle for landlords . Lets change the market. Yes they can impose ever more draconian rules and regulations but we dont have to accept them. Instead lets give them shortages lets laugh at their ineptitude but lets do it from the sidelines and landlords lets point out daily to benefit tenants that Shelter refuse to bond them. Lets make it clear that Shelter have caused the crisis. Shelter hate the PRS. Lets give Shelter a gift. A smaller tougher tighter Prs. Lets put that so called charity into the spotlight. Lets put this organisation out of business and get their £60m put to good use housing the homeless. Landlords leave the market but if you really want to hang on, join the Alliance now.

So if I understand, the ' Govt ' publish a comment saying they [ rightly ] will study the results of the consultation, whilst the Lords actually begin to implement legislation ???
High time we stopped having Two ( opposing in many and this case ) "Houses of Government" - especially when Not elected !

Reply to the comment left by Larry Sweeney at 29/10/2019 - 18:12
It's strange that the government has not made it a condition that if your a landlord you have to be a member of a land lord organisation.
Its a small yearly sum to join and I don't understand landlords reluctance.

I use to house mostly benefit tenants
Now I only have four. Can't afford the costs with rent arrears and damage then staying there til the bailiffs.
Below market rents on top of S24
100% council tax on empty properties.

You can trust no government and this was proven with the S24 consultation .

Reply to the comment left by Chris Daniel at 29/10/2019 - 23:08Hi Chris
It's a Private Members Bill. As such it does not stand much chance of success. It will almost certainly be lost in the wash-up before the Election.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 30/10/2019 - 09:18
So it is just a publicity stunt by the LibDems, for inclusion in their election manifesto?

I wonder who drafted it. A well-known anti-landlord lawyer? An unknown lawyer from Shelter? Civil servants, under the instruction of the Minister? Civil servants, under the instruction of Generation Rent?

When the liberal democrats came out and said that there should be another referendum and people should only be allowed to vote for a deal, or remain, that made them no longer "democrats": There's nothing democratic about not allowing people to express their views in a free-vote. It's totalitarian....worthy of the Honk Kong government, not of any group of people claiming to call themselves a UK political party.

The purpose of consultation is to listen. If someone says to you "...would you like me to poke you in the eye," you say, "no thanks because it will hurt" and they say, "...well, I'm going to poke you in the eye anyway" you know that it's because they didn't give a **** about your wellbeing in the first place.

Politics in the UK is about who wins the centre ground: These people do not occupy the centre ground any more; they are pro-European, anti-democratic and left-wing.

Due to the forthcoming election I've taken a look at the Labour manifesto re' tenant 'right to buy' and there's no mention!!! Any thoughts???

Reply to the comment left by LaLo at 30/10/2019 - 10:53
It wasn't in the last maifesto and it will be a couple of weeks I would think before we get the new one.

Reply to the comment left by JJ at 30/10/2019 - 10:04
What is exactly wrong with being pro-European?