General Election 8th June – Who on earth do landlords vote for?

I’ve just told the silly Martin Costello what I think. My Twitter account actually came in handy.

Reply to the comment left by “Gary Dully” at “23/04/2017 – 03:18“:

Gary, do you have details of what UKIP will do to support LLs?

Reply to the comment left by “Rachel Hodge” at “23/04/2017 – 07:59“:

I should have an answer to that early next week.

Hi Jamie, have you been put in contact with Ray Finch (MEP) too?

How did the PN meeting go?

Myself and two other large portfolio landlords are in central London tomorrow with an afternoon to kill if you’re about for a coffee/beer and a chat…

Reply to the comment left by “Luke P” at “23/04/2017 – 09:10“:

Supposed to be with PN in Lon tomorrow so definitely on to meet up. Let’s speak am tomorrow

I hope it goes well and we get one party willing to speak up for us and able to develop a rational housing policy. I also hope that if the top guys come on board they have sufficient influence over the rank and file.

Reply to the comment left by “Dr Rosalind Beck” at “23/04/2017 – 07:16“:

I think a better way of trying to get the leadership of UKIP nationally and regionally on side is say if you think rents are to high with your fellow countrymen providing the housing, just wait till the ‘build to rent’ takes over, making the distinction with do they want renting from someone they meet or a faceless corporation. Wish I could find the ft article from last year which casually said the rent from a build to rent provider would almost certainly be 10-25% more expensive. Another clever move would be say in tandem with making it easy to evict for arrears get rid of section 21 (apart from for sale of property) then only the rogue tenants and their defenders would be able to complain.

I will be interested to hear what UKIP say, as they had a very attractive 40% income tax pledge in the last election which really tempted me (something like raising the threshold to £50K). If this was pledged again, this would help mitigate S24 effects.

I’m going to try to embed a tweet I’ve just sent to my MP.

@grantshapps I was sure of a Tory landslide until the tax threat. S24 rental tax + possible further tax rises means I'm now looking for a alternative.— Rachel Hodge (@Rache133) April 23, 2017

Would have preferred to copy his tweet and my reply, but technology has overwhelmed me. This is his tweet I was responding to:

Sunday papers stuffed full of opinion polls. What a resilient industry, given their abject failure to predict either last election or Brexit— Grant Shapps (@grantshapps) April 23, 2017

Reply to the comment left by “Tobias Nightingale” at “23/04/2017 – 10:39“:

Did I just read a Landlord suggesting getting rid of Sec 21 !!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to the comment left by “Chris Daniel” at “23/04/2017 – 12:57“:

I said in tandem with making easier ( I would say much much easier) to evict using sec 8 f or arrears or anti social behavior. As far as I know most people use 21 because its easier to evict troublesome tenants (which the anti landlord stories never moot as a reason) or sell a property. If you want to argue keeping thats fine I just thought if sec 8 was strengthened while sec 21 was weakened it would neutralize any claim to be pro landlord (which most of pity is difficult).