Is a vote for Reform the logical choice for landlords?
I’d appreciate your thoughts because it seems to me that the only realistic hope for landlords teaching the two major political Parties a lesson is to vote Reform in the hope of a Labour / Reform coalition. Surely that would put the cat among the pigeons!
Reform appears to me to be the only UK political party happy to fight for landlords and lower rates of tax.
Am I missing something?
I found this on their website …
HOUSING
The UK population has grown by over 1.3 million in just 2 years. Yet only 425,000 homes have been built. The Office of National Statistics forecast the population to grow by nearly 7 million between 2021 and 2036, putting huge pressure on housing.
Mass immigration is the main factor in this. Other factors that have damaged housing supply are overly bureaucratic planning regulations that delay decisions and add huge cost.
Critical reforms needed in the first 100 days:
Review the Planning System.
Fast track planning and tax incentives for development of brownfield sites, including unused offices and vacant high street properties. Review system of Section 106 Developer Contributions for infrastructure such as schools and surgeries to accelerate house building.
Reform Social Housing Law.
Prioritise local people and those who have paid into the system. In parts of the UK almost half of all social housing is occupied by someone born overseas. Foreign nationals must go to the back of the queue. Not the front.
Scrap the 2019 Tax Changes for Landlords.
The tax system should encourage smaller landlords into the rental markets. Not penalise them.
Abolish the Renters’ (Reform) Bill.
Existing legislation was adequate to address bad practices. Instead, we will boost the monitoring, appeals and enforcement process.
Thereafter:
Incentivise Use of New Construction Technology.
Such as modular construction, and smart infrastructure.
More Homegrown Qualified Traders.
New apprenticeships and vocational courses will increase the supply of skilled, well-paid workers to replace cheap overseas labour.
Housing Pledges Costs = £ Neutral
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Member Since January 2021 - Comments: 52
11:46 AM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
@Lady Accidental – spoilt ballot paper does send a message – but I just feel that the Conservatives would take more notice of what used to be their core supporters supporting Reform instead as more of a message, I wonder how much notice they take of spoilt ballots?
Member Since March 2023 - Comments: 1506
12:01 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
The greens will bankrupt us all. I did see a cartoon recently about defense – on the left hand side was a row of Putins’ tanks, on the right hand side was a queue of UK tanks waiting for a charger. Very appropriate.. The greens, just stop oil etc are basically a bunch of middle class woke liberals with no idea of (and don’t care about) the cost of living.
Member Since January 2011 - Comments: 12193 - Articles: 1395
12:11 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Stella at 03/06/2024 – 11:42
They invented what became Section 24 and the Conservatives adopted it, so in my book the Greens are worse!
Green as a watermelon, as in green with envy and naivety on the outside but red to the centre.
Member Since April 2023 - Comments: 16
12:18 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Stella at 01/06/2024 – 10:52
We have to start somewhere. Yes, it’s obvious that Labour will have a landslide victory, but rather than wasting a vote for Conservatives, wouldn’t it be better to show the electorate that there is a massive swell of support for Reform? A bit like UKIP polling millions of votes yet failing to get a single seat.
Member Since May 2017 - Comments: 763
12:20 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander – Founder of Property118 at 03/06/2024 – 12:11
The conservatives, labour, greens and lib dems are all liberal, left wing, woke, self serving and often career politicians under the thumb of big business and without a leader amongst them. Look at how many conservatives have defected to labour.
Reform is what the conservatives used to be and speak for the, sometimes silent, majority – look what happened with Brexit.
Look out for the 4pm Farage press conference
Member Since March 2023 - Comments: 1506
1:19 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by berkstunt at 03/06/2024 – 12:18
No vote is a wasted vote, even a spoilt vote get counted. Like I tell my kids who have said they are not bothering to vote, if you don’t vote you have no moaning rights going forward.
Member Since March 2023 - Comments: 1506
4:55 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
Well .. ALL CHANGE, now Nigel Farage has taken over Reform and is standing as an MP I might just do a U turn as well
Member Since May 2017 - Comments: 763
4:57 PM, 3rd June 2024, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 03/06/2024 – 16:55
I predict Farage will be PM in 4-5 years time
Member Since May 2024 - Comments: 46
10:57 AM, 4th June 2024, About 2 years ago
In my home town it doesn’t matter who is in government, the sheep will always vote in Labour and so for me it has to be Reform and their pro Landlord policies. Then at least my vote will be counted and hopefully heard by the Conservatives when attempting to redefine themselves for when Labour have messed up, like they did last time and are doing in Wales.
Member Since October 2013 - Comments: 1630 - Articles: 3
11:33 AM, 4th June 2024, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Northern Observer at 04/06/2024 – 10:57
Labour assumed they would always retain the red wall ‘sheep’… until Farage shook them up in 2019.
We don’t have a Boris and ‘Get Brexit Done’ rallying call this time around, but maybe the Tories need a good long break in opposition, with zero chance of effectively opposing anything in Parliament [not that they actually achieved much these past 14 years!], to rediscover their true Conservative values. Or… Farage builds the ‘new Conservatives’ under Reform UK. It took many years, but remember, today’s Labour was New Labour.
I will never vote Labour, and can’t vote Conservative because they are offering nothing of any strength or value. My vote will go to Reform UK.