Departing Generation Rent chief hails Section 21 abolition

Getting out before the s.it hits the fan, more like it.

… and where was the equivalent campaigner for land and property owners while all this was happening?

Mr Twomey can depart able to point to a clear and historic achievement for the people he represented. By contrast, those claiming to represent landlords and property owners have spent years collecting membership subscriptions, issuing muted statements, attending comfortable meetings and enjoying the trappings of representation—without securing anything remotely comparable for the industry.

They did not merely fail to stop the abolition of Section 21; they failed to create any meaningful political cost for abolishing it. Land and property owners were left funding organisations that appeared to exist principally to perpetuate themselves, while the rights and value of their members’ assets were steadily dismantled around them.

Maybe he has bought a place so his status is now not compatible with the job title, in which case he is showing some integrity.

Proud to have evicted tenants now, under s8, clearly labelled for why they were evicted by their landlords and forever their s8 Grounds will follow them.

A tad deranged me thinks.

Bargepole and do not touch for many tenants – tent cities here we come.

I suppose he has no time for screwing up the PRS now that he’s doing his GCSEs.

Odious little creature

Reply to the comment left by Ben Beadles Alter Ego at 25/07/2026 – 08:07
…that is a comment he will undoubtedly enjoy—and no finer legacy could he have hoped to achieve.

Sadly, the opposing team, if there ever was one, was too busy banking membership fees to mount any meaningful resistance. Now it is busy teaching its members how to become compliant, unpaid housing officers while continuing to carry all the capital risk, occupational risk and maintenance risk.

What we are witnessing is the effective nationalisation of the private rental market, funded by the property values accumulated since the Housing Act 1988. And do not forget: in the new political order, those capital values are no longer regarded as belonging to landlords. They are now portrayed as unearned windfall profits accumulated for “doing nothing”.

Based on the cited HM Land Registry historical data models, average UK property values increased by approximately 420% between the Act coming into force on 15 January 1989 and mid-2026—equivalent to a capital appreciation multiplier of roughly 5.2 times.

Therefore, the original 1989 value represents less than one-fifth of the property’s present value, while approximately 81%—just over four-fifths—consists of the capital appreciation accumulated since then. In effect, the state regards that four-fifths not as value belonging to the legal owner, but as a societal windfall available to be reclaimed for the country.

The Government is now coming for that accumulated value through taxation, regulation, compulsory expenditure and the progressive transfer of control from owners to occupiers and the state. The political calculation is obvious: use private capital to fund the complete upgrading of the existing housing stock and the construction of however many new homes an expanding population requires—all delivered, in due course, at politically determined “social rents”.

The landlords will retain the liabilities. The state and the tenants will increasingly control the benefits. And the organisations supposedly representing property owners will continue collecting their subscriptions while explaining how members can comply more efficiently with their own dispossession.

Reply to the comment left by Person Of The People at 25/07/2026 – 13:38
I cancelled my NRLA membership which was due for payment this month. One of their whiny oiks rang me to find out why – gave me great pleasure to repeat all the frustration and general anger that I and so many of us feel about them. As much use as a chocolate fireguard!!

The saying “Be careful what you wish for” is over 2000 years old and is as relevant today as ever.
The modest number of decent tenants who were evicted for no reason will be surpassed by a larger number who won’t be taken on as tenants. Antisocial tenants will take comfort that their victims will have to give evidence against them at some date in the future.
Section 21 was never the cause of homelessness. It’s the shortage of houses to rent, stupid!
To give an analogy, many unemployed people became unemployed after receiving a redundancy notice. Only a fool would think that the way to beat unemployment is to ban redundancy notices.
If you want to improve the lot of tenants (and I do), encourage house-building, tax landlords fairly and stop persecuting landlords with massive fines for trivial, often technical, mistakes. Trouble is the Tories gave landlords (who as a group were probably their biggest supporters) a damn good kicking over many years. Labour, seeing this, thought: “If that’s how their mates treat them, we might as well give these Tory-voting bastards an even bigger kicking with hobnail boots on.”

He said: “When I took on this role, I did so as a renter who knew first-hand what it feels like to live with insecurity and uncertainty’.

So clearly made enough from pumping the anti LL agenda = making it more difficult for people to secure accommodation to buy somewhere himself and renter no longer.

A shocker – not. Another self confessed socialist, making personal gain from others misfortune created by his own hand.

A true ‘representative of the renter’….. especially as long as he isn’t one of them