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

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

12:30 PM, 18th April 2017, About 7 years ago 672

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For example, you may well despise what the Conservative Government has done and you may well mistrust them but will any other party be better?

If landlords vote for minor parties might this hand a win to Labour?

Do you think a coalition Government is likely, and if so between which parties?

Which party would you least prefer to be elected and why?

Could not voting hand this election to Labour?

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Tricia Collick

9:19 AM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Dr Rosalind Beck" at "25/04/2017 - 06:54":

Dear Dr Beck,
Firstly I congratulate you on your very well phrased letters to the government.
However I cannot agree on your voting position.
ANY party we vote for will target PRS as it is a vote winner.
I have just written to my MP to say that THIS TIME I will vote Tory under suffrance as Theresa May is the only one who can stand up for the UK, after all, section 24 will be a minor problem if we don't have a strong position outside the EU.
It was Osbornes ill thought out policy.
I expect section 24 to be abandoned before the end of the next parliament otherwise I WILL switch.

Chris @ Possession Friend

9:23 AM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Tricia Collick" at "25/04/2017 - 09:19":

The longer Sec 24 is in place, the harder it will be to argue against it ( and the less will there is to listen to any arguments about it.

Tricia Collick

9:39 AM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Chris Daniel" at "25/04/2017 - 09:23":

Chris,
the Irish reversed it some time after it was implemented, we should be concentrating on the negative impact which it caused them to recind it.

Colin Dartnell

9:49 AM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Chris Daniel" at "25/04/2017 - 08:32":

Yes but voting labour will take your arms and your head as well and feed them to Unite and the rest of the communists who will be running the country 🙂

Gromit

10:25 AM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Just send the following to my local MP (Con).

Dear Andrew,

For the first time, as a long-time supporter and member of the Conservative Party, I am struggling for a reason to vote Conservative!

I would never even in my worst nightmare ever believe that a Conservative Government would wage such punitive attacks on small Landlords, without any consultation, and so brazenly unfair by taxing Landlords on fictitious profit, & excluding the wealthiest Landlords and corporations owning properties from this tax. It also goes against the Conservative manifesto pledge that was made just a few weeks earlier than the Budget announcement not to raise Income Tax. I was also disappointed with the rather lukewarm support that I received from you personally over this matter.

In reality though, it is not Landlords who will suffer the most under this measure but it will be the poorest in our society who will be facing steep rent rises, eviction and in many cases homelessness (putting more pressure on already cash strapped local Councils). This a stealth tax of the worst kind.

The principle in question is that of “trust”. Can I trust that the Conservative Party will correct this injustice and will not introduce even more punitive measures and burdens on the private rented sector, PRS?

I await your response

Tobias Nightingale

11:46 AM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Barry Fitzpatrick" at "25/04/2017 - 10:25":

A good letter Barry, but I do have strong objection to the bit about 'wealthiest landlords' As some landlords simply may have paid off their morgages on their properties rather than leveraging or put their entire pension pott in. For instance who is wealthy a landlord who has a handful of properties or a leveraged one whom has say 30 but has mortgages but if he just sold up and after tax/expenses was left with say 10 that landlord is clearly wealthier in a sense. By saying that its almost opening a football goal and say have a go at those people. Just my 2 cents

Gromit

12:12 PM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Tobias Nightingale" at "25/04/2017 - 11:46":

@Tobias

I hear what you say but I am just reiterating the terms that George Osborne and other Treasury Ministers have used in their justification for this tax change. The tax was purportedly "targetted" at "the wealthiest Landlords" according to George Osborne, the term is a generalisation; there will be some truly wealthy people who have mortgages on some rental properties that they own who will be affected, but the majority of "wealthy2 Landlords own their properties outright/unencumbered. But the reality is that the more indebted you are the harder this tax will hit, especially if/when interest rates rise when effective rates of tax will rise exponentially.

Whiteskifreak Surrey

12:57 PM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Chris @ Possession Friend

16:10 PM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Colin Dartnell" at "25/04/2017 - 09:49":

I think the answer ( to the Political voting conundrum ) is to encourage Proportional representation - so its no always a ' One-horse ' race.

I have emailed UKIP to suggest they adopt it as part of their manifesto. ( 15 million votes and No M.P.'s )
That way, we'd have a much stronger [ and healthier / effective opposition.
It would be in all political parties interests , especially at the moment, - apart from the Conservatives !

Gromit

16:21 PM, 25th April 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Chris Daniel" at "25/04/2017 - 16:10":

According to the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

Con votes.......11.3m.....36.9%....331 seats
Lab votes.........9.3m.....30.4%....232 seats
UKIP votes.......3.88m....12.6%.......1 seat
LDem votes......2.41m.....7.9%.......8 seats
SNP votes........1.45m.....4.7%......56 seats

The anomally is obvious

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