Landlords – Who gets your vote?

Landlords – Who gets your vote?

0:03 AM, 3rd January 2024, About 6 months ago 116

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Hi, Do landlords have a viable political home? It appears not. Historically the Conservative party has been the party of the landlord, permitting the market to control itself to a large extent. This is no longer the case.

Why? Because we have a left of centre conservative government (note the small c). The tail is wagging the dog and in an effort to win voters, they are alienating their core voters in their masses.

Who to vote for then? Certainly not Labour, we only need to look at the London Mayor to see the path they would lead us down. Rent controls, mandatory licencing and higher taxation (and that’s just the start).

Research papers initiated by the Labour Party have even gone as far as to state that compulsory purchase at (market rates!!!) should be considered as a way to bolster the stock of social housing. The Green Party – even further left than Labour and posing the same, if not, a greater level of risk to the Landlord.

I suspect the first initiative would be mandatory EPC Grade A’s all round irrespective of cost.

This leaves us with Reform UK, led by Richard Tice. I live in an area of the UK (Bury North) with the smallest margin between Conservative and Labour at the last election.

Recently our conservative (small c again) MP James Daly, wrote in the local press that his greatest concern at the next election was not Labour, but Reform UK.

I agree with him, our Local Labour candidate James Frith is seen locally as weak and unviable and unlikely to take many votes.

However, many people will make a statement vote for Reform UK, even if this increases the likelihood of Labour gaining a seat.

My question to you readers is, should we vote Reform in the knowledge that it will allow a Labour win or should we vote Conservative?

Should we be looking at sending a clear message to the conservative government that will hopefully make them take notice and restructure themselves as a Conservative party, centre right to win the following election?

Or should we vote Conservative in the hope of weakening an incumbent Labour government?

Or could the seemingly impossible happen and the nation elect Reform UK. This would, be the best result for Landlords.

What do you think?

Steve


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18:22 PM, 3rd January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reform UK seems to be garnering the most support, especially from lifelong Tory voters.

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18:35 PM, 3rd January 2024, About 6 months ago

I was a parliamentary con candidate and came an honourable second in the year of The Great Maggie Surge (1979) but these days the Monster Raving Loonies must have it? I rather like the idea of Lord Buckethead arriving, bucket in place, for his weekly audience with His Maj?

Jason

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20:00 PM, 3rd January 2024, About 6 months ago

I always vote for the MP that does the best for my consistency rather than national policy which by the way has been Conservative for the last many GE’s, not anymore! What a shambles this has been. Shame we don’t have proportional representation but I wont be tactical voting I genuinely want Reform and appears many if not most landlords are aligned with Reform too. But let’s face it the Tories will try and steal all Reforms winning policies but that is not enough to win me back the whole lot of them are rotten, they haven’t delivered anything and trying to do so at the eleventh hour is desperation. Don’t they realise elections are won overs years not a few weeks of campaigning and a few tax cuts. We haven’t forgotten party gate, the lies, Truss, all the sleaze etc..

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7:14 AM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

As with a lot of the comments, I will be voting either Reform or Monster Raving Looney Party (did you know that some of the early monster raving looney party proposals were actually adopted by Labour and Conservative). Liberals are a complete waste of Woke time and as for the Greens ....

Blodwyn

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8:51 AM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 04/01/2024 - 07:14
GlanACC's memory is sharp and very appropriate! If I'm not mistaken, the MRLP dreamed up the seat belt that we now feel undressed if we don't put it on? It went into Barbara Castle's Road Safety Act, was it 1970?
A former colleague of mine was a cousin to the Original Monster and gave me a Monster banknote when he died. It proclaimed, "Vote Loony, You Know It Makes Sense!"

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9:15 AM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

honest answer - no flippin' idea as the ones current in don't have a clue, and the one's who want to be in don't offer anything at all ...and I see them getting in just making the whole thing even worse! Starmer is no leader full stop.

Every other option is pointless unless you want to send a message you are not happy - but everyone will see this anyway. There will probably be the lowest GE turnout ever at this rate.

Anthony Endsor

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11:05 AM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

I say vote for what you believe in.
I have been a Conservative voter all my life but they are no longer the party they used to be. The closest party to Conservative values now is Reform. If everybody switches to Reform instead of Labour, there is no reason why they can't pull off a few upsets at the election. They are standing in every seat so if people don't really want Labour, why should they vote for them?

Blodwyn

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11:07 AM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Anthony Endsor at 04/01/2024 - 11:05
Split the Con vote and/or vote Lib Dem for a Labpur Government! If that's what you want, a regiment of London Mayors, so be it?

NewYorkie

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11:34 AM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Blodwyn at 04/01/2024 - 11:07
Unless Sunak finds a miracle, as things stand, we will get a Labour government, whatever happens.

Our only option, as I see it, is to aim for what happened in 2010, where against all the odds, the Libdems entered government in coalition with the Tories, or where the SNP fell back on a handful of Greens in order to stay in power.

The upshot of that was the majority Party had to agree to their minority partners' policies, or lose votes in Parliament.

This could be Reform + Labour or Conservative. But we need 5 years of change, and neither of the big 2 will deliver it on their own.

If we all vote Reform, we could make it happen.

Reluctant Landlord

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15:34 PM, 4th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Anthony Endsor at 04/01/2024 - 11:05
anyone who votes then believes in fairies and miracles?? hahaha

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