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 6 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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JB

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15:12 PM, 4th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Six Tories may defect to Reform - one is a household name. They have til midday Friday to decide

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18:05 PM, 4th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by JB at 04/06/2024 - 15:12
I expressed an idea a while back that if most of the red wall MPs were facing losing their jobs in any case, what would they have to lose by jumping ship to Reform UK in seats which Nigel Farage effectively gave up in 2019 to support Boris.

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6:17 AM, 5th June 2024, About 6 months ago

I would like to vote for reform, but apparently I can't, as there is no candidate standing for reform in my area! Can I just put reform on my voting card? Or is it just a waste of vote?

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7:01 AM, 5th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by A fedup landlord at 05/06/2024 - 06:17
No, put reform on your vote and it WILL be counted as an invalid vote, but it will be counted and reported.

JB

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9:35 AM, 5th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by A fedup landlord at 05/06/2024 - 06:17
I dont think there will be a Reform candidate in my arear either. I plan to vote for the useless Conservatives, who are likely to get in. At least that way Labour will have a smaller majority

Elena Sh

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11:04 AM, 6th June 2024, About 6 months ago

REFORM UK for me.... labour / tory - two in one gang of money obsessed lunatics, living in totally different world . This MUST be changed...otherwise they destroy the UK...those guys tory/labour are far away from this real live the real people live. We have to change this rotten system for our children ....there is nobody ,but us ...

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18:24 PM, 8th June 2024, About 6 months ago

I’m voting Reform and a lot of my friends are too. Not all of them landlords, but hard working honest people like me, who are sick and tired of the lies and deceit and were planning not to vote at all for the first time in their lives. Reform sounds perfect for us.

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18:37 PM, 8th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 30/05/2024 - 11:24Judith, can you please type this part out again as I don't fully understand what you are saying: "Even now the courts are telling landlords they should rent a property instead of evicting their tenant and moving into the rental property their actually own!" - It don't make sense.

Lisa008

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7:21 AM, 9th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Vote MUPPET - because that's what you're going to get anyway!

Tories - bunch of idiots. Been in the best part of the last 40 years... since 1979... look around you - are you happy with your country? They keep getting in because the media support them.

Labour - I hate that people think that they should just get in 'because we've all [finally] had enough of the Tories'... if you're not offering anything of value, why should anyone get your vote? They just rely on the other party being bad and everyone [finally] having enough.

Farage - gets wheeled out periodically to boost people up. Not a snowflakes chance in hell... I don't think he really wants it, [the top job as PM] but he loves all the attention. He's getting paid. You can't take him seriously.

LibDem - got my vote in 2010, they got into bed with the tories, went back on everything they said and rightfully got wiped out at the next election. They deserved that spanking. They need to learn their lesson.

I would like to see another party emerge but ... looking at politics worldwide... its always a 2 party race. Yet the same puppet masters are controlling the agenda. 2030... you will own nothing... and be happy.

Vote left, right, ahead, behind... you're still going to get a MUPPET.

Adam Lawrence

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7:57 AM, 9th June 2024, About 6 months ago

Everyone knows how new parties go. Disappointingly badly and some really good politicians - of which there are very few - have ended their careers by getting tempted.

It's different this time - is it? Some reform policies sound great but the level of detail in which they don't do anything at all, and the paucity of some of their candidates (just in terms of their lack of moral fibre apart from anything else) represent a significant step back in a system that's hit a 45-year low.

Just get to one level below the soundbytes, and you'll see just how much worrying space there is below all of that.

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