Rees-Mogg slams Gove’s ‘socialist error’ Renters (Reform) Bill

OMG is this a Politician talking common sense? Surely not!

The first politician who understands the effect this will have, well said Jacob. Let's hope more people listen to what he said but I doubt they will because it isn't a vote winner. It will be too late for many tenants by the time it's realised, sadly.

Well done Jacob! At least you understand that if you kick a landlord, you kick a tenant. I believe evictions should be easy and quick - as this will benefit tenants. As Jacob says, landlords have no interest in arbitrarily evicting tenants. There's almost always a good reason, and the quicker a non paying tenant can be removed, the less rent landlords loose which means good tenants rents don't rise to cover losses.
In the vast majority of cases 'no fault' evictions DO HAVE a fault, it's just not recorded on the notice.
The effect will reach beyond landlords and tenants.
Council tax payers will be footing the bill for all the extra homeless tenants, council tax will rise, council services will cease and the economy will suffer.

Common sense from Rees Mogg here Gove has no idea just a closet socialist.

Had a few issues over the many years, but nothing like recently, which sadly many landlords have been through already.

The tenant doesn’t pay rent, you wish you a section 8, the courts award your property, the law is a mess because it has no balls to get the tenant out and on shelter advice, they stay beyond the legal date of departure, the landlord then has to go back to court to get a bailiff order, there is a delay, there is a delay for notice if the normal process is followed, and not the High Court acceleration path, which isn’t always quicker, but it is more expensive, the tenant decides they’re going to leave, but before they do They get all the valuable stuff out so there’s nothing much left that the bailiffs can see to help pay for the court costs.

The back rent owed is not paid with the section 8 County Court judgement, the landlord then has to reapply for a repayment schedule at more cost.

This process needs to be really sorted out before anything moves forward on the Renters reform, so the landlord can get the property back on the first application and all the costs

The Bill does NOT ‘aim to improve the security and standards of tenants in the private rented sector (PRS)’.

Its aim is to garner votes at the forthcoming election.

Rees Mogg is no longer Leader of the House of Commons. He is now a mere backbencher. Never my favourite MP, but in this case I cannot disagree with him.

Good words but much too late to make a difference, there is so much momentum behind the Section 21 ban that stopping it seems impossible.

Absolutely spot on and about time a politician understood the issues and stood up for landlords.

Gove and crew will soon learn that, those they are trying to appease will NEVER vote for them, whilst losing and alienating those who have traditionally been Conservatives.

But it is above Politics and more down to common sense and with a court system already unable to operate efficiently through a lack of funding, suggesting there will be alternatives to S21, which will take up even more court time, will bring the whole system to a standstill.

No doubt the Buffoon on LBC at 10am will slag him off as usual. I cannot bring myself to even say the guys name he offends me so much.