Keir Starmer under fire for NOT saying landlords are “working people”

What an absolute insult to say landlords, who are often on call 24/7, are not working people!

Its not just Landlords ,
It appears to be all self employed people who do not get a monthly Cheque. and anyone who has put money aside for a Rainy day.

We have a dictionary to define words like working and people. Kier is redefining the words to mean whatever he wants. It sounds like he wants "working people" to mean people who have few choices.

He keeps getting caught up in the ambiguity and disparity. The problem is created a term to sound like one thing but mean something else, without defining what that something else is.

This essentially makes his promise mean nothing, because no-one could understand it but Kier.

So, as we manage all our 26 properties ourselves, also do them or organise any repairs needed, working available 24 hrs a day 365 days a year, but we are classed as not working. He needs his brain looking at, in fact if he has one. Hope the budget does not take his thoughts seriously.

Reply to the comment left by David West at 25/10/2024 - 11:52
He's welcome to come and spend a day with me at the moment If he wants to see what a working Landlord looks like, I won't bore everyone with the detail as sure they already know, those that manage them themselves. So out of touch with it all. its a business like any other just that it and us are not treated like it by politicians. They think that you just give someone the keys and then sit back and take the money while you watch your investment grow. Oh dear . . . .

Not working, but still a very real possibility we could be charged National Insurance on rents at this upcoming budget…??

My goodness
not working people !!!
Some have no clue.
When we started out we used to work 100 to 120 hours a week for 10 plus years !
now still work 40/60 hours a week !!

HMRC says its not a business
PM says it not work !!

Sounds like lines form an Adam and the Ants song .......
" what do you do ! "

Keir Starmer tying himself in knots with the notion those who have acquired assets or decent savings from working are not ‘working people’.

The sheer hypocrisy is off the scale. He is a wealthy man - he was granted special pension arrangements with his own Act of Parliament when he stood down as DPP in 2013 as his provision would otherwise have been in excess of the then lifetime cap and been subject to the punitive 55% tax charge everyone else would be liable for.

Despite being over the age when he can draw on his pension provision he clocks up an incredible £100,000 plus in freebies and handouts.

I can see the complexity of the particular question of when a landlord is or isn’t working depending on how their operation is structured - but I’m certainly not interested in being put into any classification by a wealthy hypocrite who needs a sugar daddy to buy his specs for him.

Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 25/10/2024 - 12:40Hardly surprising Starmer can’t define a working person when he can’t even define what a woman is. This creature’s brain is completely scrambled. He only got his hands on power because the Tories intentionally threw the election. That’s why we’re in this dystopian situation.
Regarding national insurance on rental income that will no doubt be imposed on the false Section 24 “profit”. If he goes down this route even more landlords will sell up and rents will rise further. There will simply be no money in it.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he removes the 20% tax credit, that must really stick in his throat. Landlords getting a tax credit on their mortgage interest when working people don’t ……I can see how his dysfunctional brain is working, all those uncontrollable neurons firing off in all directions.

Daily Mail have a lot of angry Landlords!
>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14001855/Keir-Starmers-wrong-working-people-Furious-landlords-savers-self-employed-slam-PMs-claptrap-prejudice-hinted-tax-hikes.html