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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Edwin Cowper

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14:21 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Conservatives left of centre. How come? Please explain which policies are left. Granted unfortunately some are against what we might want as landlords.

If you think voting for Reform might be a good idea, why is that?

Do you know that a major policy is to have Proportional Representation? I was very much in favour but no longer.

Look at the mess in Israel because of proportional representation. Look at Holland. Just two examples. You vote for one set of policies and through preference voting get somebody very different as your MP.

Another problem of PR is that often the tail wags the dog.

Parties which have obtained a few seats are able to get policies adopted which a very small number voters want because the MPs are needed to form the government.
sproportionate

(In the 2010 government the vast majority of Conservative policy was applied)

Edwin Cowper

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14:25 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by NewYorkie at 03/01/2024 - 13:24
Which 'blob' is this please?

There may be one but no-one actually says what they mean.

Can you please?

NewYorkie

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14:52 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Blodwyn at 06/01/2024 - 09:39
I see you've swallowed the lefty liberal rhetoric.

It was actually the UN who first used Rwanda as a home for migrants. Even if the UK policy is voted down, others in the EU will follow.

Laurie

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15:12 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Edwin Cowper at 06/01/2024 - 14:21
That’s true about PR, check out the fully insane Green Party in Scotland, some of their MPs got voted in with a few hundred votes but have had significant power in Scotland. They are rabidly anti landlord and do not care if tenants end up worse off, their ideology is way more important than anything else. A scary Marxist organization, totally detached from reality but pushing through these madcap policies.

Tom McGrath

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16:23 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Those of you swooning over a possible dalliance with the'Reform Party" should remember that Reform UK is not a conventional parliamentary party, but a limited company. It is a revamp of the Brexit party, whose main focus was to reduce immigration. Three years after Brexit, immigration is at record levels. Be careful of what you wish for, because with Reform UK, you are likely to get the exact reverse.

philip allen

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16:52 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by john thompson at 06/01/2024 - 12:06
Totally agree. It's a two party system............Reform.... or the Monster Raving Loonies! Where's Lord Sutch when we, finally, really need him?

LCH

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17:16 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

PR definitely preferred over the current FPTP (where only a majority of a minority get a Government they want). At least with PR every vote actually counts. No wonder there is talk of spoiling ballots, tactical voting etc when under the current FPTP system, any vote for anything other than Blue or Red, effectively doesn’t count.

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17:24 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Tom McGrath at 06/01/2024 - 16:23
The Brexit Party's primary focus was to leave the EU.

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17:28 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by LCH at 06/01/2024 - 17:16
Spoiling your ballot paper doesn't harm the red or blue. Voting for someone else [other than yellow] does. The libs managed it in 2010. Why couldn't Reform in 2024?

LCH

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17:34 PM, 6th January 2024, About 6 months ago

Reply to the comment left by NewYorkie at 06/01/2024 - 17:28
I hope they don’t. I’ve seen nothing specifically pro-Landlord in the Reform(Ltd company’s) ‘manifesto’.
If anything given their anti-immigration rhetoric they’re only harmful. Immigration, in part, is one reason (of many) why there is increased demand for rental properties atm.

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