Is a vote for Reform the logical choice for landlords?

Is a vote for Reform the logical choice for landlords?

22:12 PM, 29th May 2024, About 7 months ago 139

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I’d appreciate your thoughts because it seems to me that the only realistic hope for landlords teaching the two major political Parties a lesson is to vote Reform in the hope of a Labour  / Reform coalition. Surely that would put the cat among the pigeons!

Reform appears to me to be the only UK political party happy to fight for landlords and lower rates of tax.

Am I missing something?

I found this on their website

HOUSING

The UK population has grown by over 1.3 million in just 2 years. Yet only 425,000 homes have been built. The Office of National Statistics forecast the population to grow by nearly 7 million between 2021 and 2036, putting huge pressure on housing.

Mass immigration is the main factor in this. Other factors that have damaged housing supply are overly bureaucratic planning regulations that delay decisions and add huge cost.

Critical reforms needed in the first 100 days:

Housing tick

Review the Planning System.
Fast track planning and tax incentives for development of brownfield sites, including unused offices and vacant high street properties. Review system of Section 106 Developer Contributions for infrastructure such as schools and surgeries to accelerate house building.

 

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Reform Social Housing Law.
Prioritise local people and those who have paid into the system. In parts of the UK almost half of all social housing is occupied by someone born overseas. Foreign nationals must go to the back of the queue. Not the front.

 

Housing tick

Scrap the 2019 Tax Changes for Landlords.
The tax system should encourage smaller landlords into the rental markets. Not penalise them.

 

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Abolish the Renters’ (Reform) Bill.
Existing legislation was adequate to address bad practices. Instead, we will boost the monitoring, appeals and enforcement process.

Thereafter:

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Incentivise Use of New Construction Technology.
Such as modular construction, and smart infrastructure.

 

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More Homegrown Qualified Traders.
New apprenticeships and vocational courses will increase the supply of skilled, well-paid workers to replace cheap overseas labour.

Housing Pledges Costs = £ Neutral


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Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118

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14:00 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Londonlad at 01/06/2024 - 13:37
Which party do you think that is?

For me it’s Reform.

Conservatives, Labour, Greens and Lib Dems all have more policies that make no sense to me.

I can’t say that I agree with ALL OF THE policies of any of the parties, so I must vote for the best fit for my own beliefs.

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15:02 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Just a thought - if everybody who has said on this forum they will vote Reform manages to convince others to do the same, and assuming those others do the same thing, it MIGHT just be possible that they could win seats.

I appreciate that it’s a ‘long shot’ but failing to try is a guarantee of not succeeding, is it not?

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15:46 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Stella at 01/06/2024 - 10:52
Any majority is enough for Labour to do what they want. Vote Reform. If enough of us do that instead of voting Tory, you never know!

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18:41 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

No, vote for the party that will not purloin my hard earned money.

Labour .Lib Dems, will certainly do that.

Carchester.

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18:59 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Londonlad at 01/06/2024 - 13:37
Hear, Hear!

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19:44 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Boris Johnson had ideas and plans, but unfortunately was a morally flawed person.
Adam Smith and his invisible hand and industrialisation promoted a model of job seeking versus local entrepreneurship. This led to the break-up of the family, when women joined the labour force.
If you have 4 families instead of one, so much more scope for profit.
It is PROFIT that runs the economy.
In Europe and other countries, notably Japan, the birth rate has declined, which means immigration or robots or work rather than retire.
Brexit was meant to enable UK to have Free Trade Agreements - raise our living standards.
Trump promised Johnson one, but for various reasons it did not come about (scare stories of chlorinated chickens).
Johnson was about to sign a FTA with India, but was sabotaged by our dear Suella, who appeared not to know Imperial history, or just repeat one mantra about her parents and our British values.
Is it any wonder that Rishi refused to talk to her about immigration?
Labour has its vote bank of Muslims and Khalistanis.
I hear care workers are not coming in, because we do not now allow families.
I heard Labour say we shall have more doctors, nurses and teachers.
Where from? Immigration?
In the last 10 years under PM Modiji, India has new under 400 medical colleges in addition to the existing ones of a similar number.
Under FTA, the idea was to allow senior students to come to Britain and work here, qualify, gain experience and return to India. Our hospital waiting times would be gone.
I will not comment on the Ukraine or Hamas Wars.
I will just say that the West promised Gorbachev that NATO would not come near the Russian border.
We should study what the regime change specialists such as Victoria Nuland did in Ukraine.
All in all, the Conservatives have always ruled better.
When I studied Economics at the LSE, corruption was described as a transfer payment within the economy.
That is why I said some of our leaders are morally flawed.

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19:56 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Labour going into coalition with Farage - what planet ? The trouble is you can’t vote for a coalition - even if you think that’s ideal. Landlords actually voting for Farage is like turkeys voting for Christmas. If Farage gets the disaffected Tory votes, Labour get in with a landslide.

Nobody advertises they are building new housing for immigrants - but quite a few of them can actually afford the new houses the volume house-builders supply. Many cannot, so without immigrants, there will be a diminishing need for the Private Rental Sector to provide housing for the 'mobile' workers. More houses is good for business - fewer is good for landlords. You can fool some of the people all of the time……

Having big business run the government was not a good idea and the East India Company was abolished by the UK Parliament in 1874. Farage & Co. have set up Reform in lamentation of a Ceased India Company. Having Trump run America is another version of the same old problem - who runs the country. It was not resolved in 1865 by the end of the previous American Civil War nor their elections in 1876. The PRS’s “inconveniences” with UK housing do not compare with the political troubles big business has with commercial real estate elsewhere. Another UK Civil War really is stretching credulity too far.

…….but fooling all of the people all of the time?

“ I think that’s possible ” said Victor Meldrew.

PS. Despite 12 people in New York not being fooled - the jury is still out in America."

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22:54 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Carchester at 01/06/2024 - 18:41
You don't think the Tories have taken enough?

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23:01 PM, 1st June 2024, About 7 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Lady Accidental at 01/06/2024 - 19:56
Labour is going to win with a large majority. 'landslide' doesn't matter. If they have as big a majority as Boris had, they can do what they want. Shame Boris et al wasted their majority! On that basis, the Tories don't deserve my vote [neither does Labour].

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9:55 AM, 2nd June 2024, About 7 months ago

Reply to the comment left by NewYorkie at 01/06/2024 - 22:54
Of course I do - they have plundered and reaped a good harvest.

One of the reasons I will be endorsing my ballot paper in the manner previously penned.

Carchester.

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