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

Thanks for the heads up

Reply to the comment left by “KATHY MILLER” at “27/04/2017 – 08:16“:

Yes Kathy I agree we don’t want then to think they have a green light on section 24 but if we all wrote to our Tory MPs (or candidates) and said we would vote for them THIS TIME under sufrance,and for the wider good but if section 24 wasn’t scrapped soon into the next parliament we would all vote somewhere else next time.

Reply to the comment left by “Tricia Collick” at “27/04/2017 – 10:43“:

Tricia, are you prepared to rely on a politician’s promise?

Reply to the comment left by “Tricia Collick” at “27/04/2017 – 10:43“:

I accept what almost everyone is saying – vote Tories, because they are lesser evil. I am not sure. Of course I will never vote Labour, not even if they were the last party on Earth (and it is not only because of their attitude to LLs). Labour would kill PRS with a very blunt axe… So voting for a sharper one seems to be a solution. Tories have an overwhelming majority and they will go through anyway. In my opinion we should vote tactically or at least for an individual who sympathise with us.
If we vote in droves for Tories they will have even more majority and absolutely NOTHING will stop them for pursuing S24 and similar money grabbing solutions, being given even greater mandate they hoped for and a free hand.
Do you seriously think Tories care what will happen in 5 years time? Or how the PRS vote then? They will do everything possible to kill us, even if it is with a sharp axe. So how does it matter now? They will have tenants on their side in 5 years time. too.
PRS will be probably decimated anyway. LLS will leave the sector and would not care how they vote.
Pls see: https://www.landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2017/4/sharp-rise-in-landlords-quitting-the-prs?source=newsticker

Personally – we wrote letters to all our tenants when serving Section 13 – explaining in details why we have to increase rent, and who is behind that move. We clearly pointed fingers at the Conservatives, Hammond, Gidiot, Gauke, Barwell and Teresa May. It is of course up to the tenants how to vote, but at least that may make them think.

Reply to the comment left by “David Price” at “27/04/2017 – 10:51“:

No David, I wouldn’t rely on a polititans promise, but at least it would give them our clear intention to leave them in droves if they don’t do something. No other party will help us !

Reply to the comment left by “Tricia Collick” at “27/04/2017 – 11:23“:

Tricia, you should have said: “NO party will help us”.
We are the most unpopular lot (I guess even less popular than ISIS), public enemy and therefore an easy target.

I will probably repeat myself again (sorry!) but we need Tenants and popular National Press behind us. Sort of Daily Mail / Daily Express – I do not read them but probably lots of people do. (London Evening Standard is out of that mix, as Gidiot is going to run it).
If that is feasible – I do not know. Personally I do not know anyone in the right circles to lobby.
Sad state of affairs.

The response I got from my local Tory MP was he really didn’t give a s**t (see my post: https://www.property118.com/putting-pressure-conservative-mp/98026/ ). He got a safe 18k+ majority and knows, for Landlords, that their only alternative is going to be Corbyn in some sort of half-baked coalition.

With a decent opposition, the Tories wouldn’t be half as arrogant.

I am confident that s.24 will be repealed just as has happened twice in Ireland. It is only a matter of time – just be prepared to weather the intervening storm.

Reply to the comment left by “Whiteskifreak Surrey” at “27/04/2017 – 11:48“:

Sarah Davidson at thisismoney – the online financial section of the Mail – is pretty on board now. She has already written some good articles in our favour and has more planned. Harvey Jones at the Express is also sympathetic but has to please his readership by covering things which affect loads of people, like car insurance and pensions. The London Evening Standard has written some crap in the past, but I don’t see it usually, not being in London. The Metro is the worst as far as I can see – and the Mirror can be a bit shitty, taking everything Shelter spouts as though it is gospel. The Guardian is generally negative and writes some very biased stuff, but now and then throws in a balanced article. Richard Dyson at the Telegraph – our erstwhile champion – has gone very quiet, but Olivia Rudgard does some good stuff. On balance, the media is far more favourable to us than they used to be in the years before Section 24; the balance has definitely shifted. I suppose it’s the psychological thing that we’ve been hammered so much that some of them are starting to feel sorry for us. The Government will have to stop eventually. I know there is talk of them hammering us some more after the General Election – we’ll see. I don’t think they will. I think they will have to start going into reverse sooner rather than later. The scapegoating of certain occupational groups and the creation of moral panics around them is nothing new. I remember when no-one had a good word to say about social workers. Teachers often get in the firing line. Then there are traffic wardens and estate agents… I think this whole anti-landlord thing will burn itself out and the powers that be will have to do what the Irish Government is now having to do – to suck up to us and beg us to help them solve the housing crisis. They’ll have their work cut out – the lying, conniving, treacherous bastards.

Reply to the comment left by “Dr Rosalind Beck” at “27/04/2017 – 15:51“:

“They’ll have their work cut out – the lying, conniving, treacherous bastards.”
I do not often have to disagree with you Ros but to describe politicians, particularly chancellors, in such a manner is far to gentle.

Here is the letter from my Conservative MP today in response to my letter to him last week – a really positive response I think, and a welcome change in tone from his scripted ‘levelling the playing field’ tripe I was getting from him previously.

Dear Ms Nixon

Thank you for taking the time to contact me with your concerns regarding Section 24 of the Finance Act 2015.

I note the concerns you have raised in this respect, and have sent a copy of your email together with a letter of my own, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to pass your points on to him. I will write to you again as soon as a reply is received.

With best wishes

Yours sincerely

Julian Smith MP