General Election 8th June – Who on earth do landlords vote for?

General Election 8th June – Who on earth do landlords vote for?

12:30 PM, 18th April 2017, About 8 years ago 672

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For example, you may well despise what the Conservative Government has done and you may well mistrust them but will any other party be better?

If landlords vote for minor parties might this hand a win to Labour?

Do you think a coalition Government is likely, and if so between which parties?

Which party would you least prefer to be elected and why?

Could not voting hand this election to Labour?

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Jamie M

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21:24 PM, 16th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Barry Fitzpatrick" at "16/05/2017 - 20:24":

Barry
If there is no one standing in your area you can stand as a paper candidate and attract the landlords and Brexiteers in your area.

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21:39 PM, 16th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "J Moodie" at "16/05/2017 - 21:24":

The reason UKIP aren't fielding a candidate is that it is a safe Tory seat. The incumbent is a Brexiteer.

UKIP came second in 2015 with c.9,000 votes with the Tories 27,000 votes winning the seat.

Besides nominations have closed now anyway.

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9:12 AM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Gary Dully" at "16/05/2017 - 15:30":

Well, re-nationalisation of utilities and railways would make some sense for consumers - no need for utilities to make a profit as long as they kept the staff on teh same pay and conditions as they are now (and there's not really any choice for trains or water - and it's the same gas or electric, just a different call centre).

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9:16 AM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Luk Udav" at "16/05/2017 - 17:53":

I've worked in both public and private sectors. In the civil service (the bit I was in) was actually quite productive, but very well paid and many, many holidays. Local government spent most of their time running around like headless chickens shouting "Oh, oh I'm so busy" without actually doing anything or having much pressure. The small private businesses I've worked for work pretty hard but many of the larger ones seem to spend all their time in meetings and meetings about having meetings, and I'd say that productivity has declined since the 1980s.

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9:16 AM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Deputy leader of greens on BBC news blaming housing crisis on buy to let landlords for driving up rents and prices and would introduce a levy (s24) to build affordable homes. How is the housing crisis caused by buy to let home providers who have added to the housing stock ill informed politics yet again does my head in.

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15:30 PM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

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16:05 PM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "NW Landlord" at "17/05/2017 - 15:30":

Indeed - completely ill informed and blaming LLs for banking rules.
However I think we are getting out of the main topic of this thread, which is who we vote for.
Seems that the Conservatives can harm us and still have our vote...
I realise that it is not possible everywhere, but cannot we vote tactically?

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16:38 PM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Just posted the following. It would help if others would also post a comment as well.

A surprisingly uninformed comment from the CEO of LMS. I would assume therefore that Mr Knee doesn't want the mortgage business of Buy to Let Landlords.

You cannot compare FTB with Landlords they're chalk and cheese one is a consumer the other is a business. Using his logic every business has an advantage over consumers because they can reclaim their legitimate business expenses (which is what interest on a business loan/mortgage is).
Landlords because they are a business have to pay CGT upon the sale of a property, Home-owners do not pay CGT on their principle residence. Landlords have to pay tax on their profits, home-owners can let a room and not have to pay tax on the first £7,000 of income,
Home-owners do not have to abide by in excess of 150 rules and regulations.

Independent research findings show FTB only compete with Landlords in 3% of sales, FTBs do not buy large properties for conversion into flats or HMOs, they don't bring derelict properties back into use. Even before recent tax hikes s.24 aka #TenantTax and 3% SDLT surcharge research by the IFS and LSE stated Landlords where taxed more heavily than owner occupiers, and where the highest in the world. Where does Mr Knee get his data from?

Unfair competition is taxing private Landlords substantially higher than corporate Landlords or unencumbered Landlords.
Unfairness is charging tax on fictitious profit at rates that can be in excess of 100%. Would Mr Knee feel is was fair to tax his business but have to exclude all salaries from the calculation of the businesses profits? Thought not.

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19:12 PM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Barry Fitzpatrick" at "17/05/2017 - 16:38":

Well said Barry,
By the way, what is the independent research that shows Landlords competing with FTB in only 3% of purchases ?
Chris

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19:36 PM, 17th May 2017, About 8 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Chris Daniel" at "17/05/2017 - 19:12":

More to the point is how Mr Knee (great name but rather silly fellow) can assert we compete for the exact same properties, whilst providing no proof for this counterintuitive assertion.

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