And the landlord vote goes to – Please vote again

There is no viable option I would readily vote for. As much as I disagree with the recent unfair attack on small landlords by the Conservative Gov. I fear far more for the country generally under a Labour Gov so would reluctantly vote Conservative.

I will be abstaining and have voted Tory all my life don’t trust any of them and the stress their anti landlord policies has caused me means I cannot stomach voting for any of them.

Reply to the comment left by Neil Patterson at 13/12/2018 - 14:30
My vote would be for a party that would address many of of the injustices faced by younger people in the private rented sector. There is a clear need for a genuinely sustained programme of social housing requiring substantial investment in local government housing and housing association programmes.

We are faced with increasing homelessness, and there is a clear need for programmes to address not only the homelessness but the underlying causes.

There is a need for some form of greater control over the costs imposed on tenants by letting agencies - some of the fees are eye watering...

And I would say that there is a need for greater security of tenure backed up by an accessible arbitration system to protect both private landlords and tenants.

I suspect that only Labour would have the will to address these concerns.

Thanks for the responses so far guys. I may have corrupted the results of my own poll as I publicised it on various FB sites and also included a landlord and tenant one. After that, the number of people saying they would vote Labour went up dramatically. So I may re-run this at some point, but try and restrict it just to landlord votes. What would really help would be if more and more landlords voted - as then if there is also a tenant vote present its significance will be wiped out more as the number of respondents increases. So if you can also share this with other landlords it would be good. Thanks again.

The case is set that landlord conservative voters have no one to vote for.
As a business owner and landlord I'm being pushed out of business on 2 fronts, and this by the party I should be voting for?
Corbyn is the biggest Marxist threat to the living standards of the entire UK. While he may give billions in laughable investment(liabilities, as all Labour government spending) another Labour financial hangover will only follow to clean up the mess. NOT an option for anyone.
It leaves us without representation and only expensive short term vote winning policies that will only do more long term damage than help anyone. S24 rent rises & reducing PRS , No Tenant fees rent rises, more legislation rent rises, abandoning S21 more homelessness.
I would say I have half Labour and conservative voters, to them only rent rises coming their way with no benefit, no one has asked for a long term tenancy or stays more than 2yrs anyway.
Everything done has not reduced rogue landlords, merely penalised the whole sector, good laws make a difference, bad ones do damage that takes 10-20 yrs to recover. Coventry council used to have a homelessness bill of £1.2m that's now grown to £4.3m and councils putting temporary housing at £50 a night or £1,500 pm, instead of £500 pm to a landlord, you'd hope they are collecting 3X the tax to pay for it as the PRS shrinks!

Let us make no bones about this. Corbin and his gang of fools, Abbot and the rest, are MARXISTS, who believe in collectivisation and the equality of outcomes. I am all in favour of equality, but of opportunity. I am happy to help the needy but not the shirkers! I am willing to deal fairly with my tenants and treat them with respect but I am not willing to be abused by them or a system that will support those who know how to take advantage and exploit the hard workers of the world. Workers unite I say! But let us remember that we are the workers, those of us who have tried hard all their lives and made sacrifices so that we and our kids can have a better life, so let us workers unite against MARXISM which like Venezuela always produce failed states and horror stories resulting in the death of millions.!

I would vote Conservative but only to keep out Mr Corbyn who obviously lives on a different planet with only 20% confidence from his own party. At this point there is no-one worth voting for and you certainly can't base it on a manifesto as they all lie. I just don't get what's going on in politics anymore, are the people running our country really that stupid or just in it for themselves like most people. We've really been conned on this Brexit no matter what side your on, huge amounts of money wasted that could have been given to Shelter to home people, oh sorry, I forgot they don't actually home anybody just beat up decent Landlords to help scumbags that don't pay their rent. I rarely get angry but every day I get a little more p****d off about everything to do with Government, they think we were all born yesterday or they are totally ignorant of the economics of real life. I've had my daily rant thankyou but don't feel any better for it!!!!!!! Agh. where's the bottle.

Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander at 13/12/2018 - 16:55
mays mob are not conservatives--they are as bad, if not worse, than labor

most of our so-called politicians are merely troughers and will do anything to keep the money rolling in. MP benefits package is huge and being an MP requires no skills or qualifications--hence this bunch of no-hopers clinging on for dear life--theyve never had it so good!!!

Reply to the comment left by Mike P at 14/12/2018 - 09:36
should be no social housing--none at all

Reply to the comment left by Mark Shine at 13/12/2018 - 20:19
libdims--the party of failures that has no policies--you can fool some of the people all of the time

clegg--no tuition fee rises????????