Government boosts court capacity as Renters’ Rights Act drives court demand

Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 – 10:51
If you go out and shout it from the rooftops that nobody in your city goes without a roof over their heads then anybody with any common sense will realise that this will result in more homeless people moving to your city.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/30/burnham-promised-to-solve-manchester-homelessness-doubled/?msockid=1c702b1c9eef656a04243cb69fa264c1

I think that perhaps rather than asking Mr Burnham more questions about anything other than growing the economy and defence, people should instead be thinking about how to stop Mr Burnham opening his mouth and doing any more damage than he has already done. Somehow, I suspect that a letter to no. 10 saying “please shut up because nobody elected you and you are doing us all a great deal of harm” is not likely to see the light of day.

I think you need to “focus” in the issue and make a constructive suggestion to Mr Burnham and ask him a question about it.

Also put your suggestion to your MP and ask that it is taken up.

Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 – 13:12
“Dear Mr. Burnham

Following your experience of shouting from the roof-tops in Manchester that nobody in Manchester goes without a roof over their heads I have noted that homelessness in Manchester has doubled as people without homes now find Manchester more attractive than they did previously. Do you think Mr. Burnham that rolling out ‘Manchesterism’ to the entire country could result in even bigger boats crossing the channel? Or perhaps to the perception that this will happen, thereby fuelling right-wing extremism and damaging community cohesion? And do you think Mr. Burnham that instead of quietly contributing government funds to Shelter (who along with the Citizens Advice Bureau do not necessarily offer good advice), an organisation that actually houses nobody, the government should instead facilitate charitable contributions to charitable housing associations that do actually house people safely and efficiently? Also, Mr. Burnham, could you please do this maturely, i.e. quietly and responsibly, in order not to disadvantage local people who, perhaps through no fault of their own, have ended up on the streets?”

The trouble with focusing on the issue and writing hypothetical letters like this is that people will make the wrong assumptions about you and call you xenophile, racist or bigot, even if you have (like me) never been a member of any political party but are in fact one of the great mass of floating-voters (as opposed to the mass of unwashed non-floating voters). The Brexit vote really galvanised the voting public into delivering an unusually high turnout, because the voters really cared about it…..the nation has never voted for ‘Manchesterism’. Nobody voted for Mr. Burnham except in Makerfield. I’m not sure how well Makerfieldism will go down in places like Essex.

A lot of landlords are interested in the issue that they are continually attacked by Shelter, a so-called charitable organisation that houses nobody but receives millions in government funds. The issue that I’m interested in focusing on is that the Labour Renters Rights Act is increasing risks for landlords and guarantors and driving rents up and I’m also interested in learning how to deal with that: So I’ll continue to focus on that, rather than the distraction of rubber boats which is much less of an issue with the tenants’ dog chewing the postman.

Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 – 14:18
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