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9:22 AM, 6th October 2025, 7 months ago
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Green Party members have voted to ‘seek the effective abolition of private landlordism’ at their autumn conference in Bournemouth, signalling a sharp shift in the party’s housing stance.
The motion, ‘Abolish Landlords’, won strong backing from delegates and now forms official party policy.
It pledges to curb private renting through heavy regulation and higher taxes, including rent controls, scrapping Right to Buy, and levying business rates on Airbnbs.
Empty properties would face double taxation, while Buy to Let mortgages would be ended.
Local authorities would also gain the right to buy homes when landlords sell, where properties fail insulation standards, or if they remain vacant for more than six months.
Reduce the PRS
Carla Denyer, the Green MP for Bristol Central, said: “Despite its eye-catching title, it does not actually ‘abolish’ landlords.
“It does, however, address the housing crisis, empowers tenants and improves their wellbeing.
“It contains a range of policies which, over time, would reduce the proportion of the housing market that is privately rented, and increase the proportion of socially rented homes.”
She added: “The motion also calls for the mass building of council homes, which was another manifesto commitment, and adds a proposal for a state-owned housing manufacturer to support these efforts and innovate on housing design and manufacture.”
Green MP landlord
The proposal was introduced by party member Alexander Sallons, who admitted it would be ‘controversial in the party’ because ‘many members are still uncomfortable with the bold and decisive tone’.
However, the motion’s focus on landlords has highlighted potential tensions within the party.
One of the Greens’ four MPs, Adrian Ramsay, rents out a property in Norfolk, according to the parliamentary register of interests.
The Daily Mail reports that the home provides more than £10,000 a year in rental income.
Mr Ramsay said on social media: “I co-own a property with my ex-wife, which we used to live in.
“I don’t make a profit from it as I have kept the rent below market rate. I don’t intend to be a landlord long-term.”
PRS ‘has failed’
Landlords might be interested to learn that the motion states: “The private rental sector has failed, it is a vehicle for wealth extraction, funnelling money from renters to the landlord class.
“This motion makes it clear Green Party policy is to seek the effective abolition of private landlordism and our support for building council housing.”
It concludes: “The Green Party believes the existence of private landlords adds no positive value to the economy or society, that the relationship between landlord and tenant is inherently and intrinsically extractive and exploitative.”
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abolish landlords motion, Buy to let, Carla Denyer, Green Party housing policy, private landlordism, right to buy, UK Rent Controls, Zack Polanski
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Member Since June 2019 - Comments: 782
9:29 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
After ‘legalise all drugs’ and ‘let everyone in’ I thought that couldn’t say anything worse – seems I was wrong.
Member Since October 2022 - Comments: 28
10:05 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Who the f**k do they think they are??
Member Since August 2019 - Comments: 59
10:06 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 06/10/2025 – 09:29
What recently got me was; Bike thefts at stations ‘decriminalised’.
If the councils want to get cheap loans from Gov and buy our properties at market value, then sure I’ll sign up.
Member Since January 2016 - Comments: 67
10:10 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
What a political manifesto from an MP and a party that doesn’t get it! He ignorantly says that private landlords don’t add positive value to the economy but the idiot is wrong. As a landlord of two decades, I can tell him emphatically that 1. I have kept many local tradesmen in business, week in, week out. 2. I have kept estate agencies and their staff in business. 3. I have provided good homes to tens of tenants. 4. I have paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in income tax and VAT on materials to suppliers, to tradesmen and on managing agents’ fees, not to talk of solicitors, insurance brokers, EPC assessors, Accountant etc. How people running our country can be so ill-informed and ignorant is beyond me. Thankfully these clueless lot will NEVER become a party in Govt during my lifetime.
Member Since February 2024 - Comments: 71
10:17 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
I also read that they wanted landlords to sell their properties to the tenant at a discounted price…the discount being the total rent the tenant had paid during their tenancy…
Member Since September 2025 - Comments: 29
10:18 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone in politics actually realised that small landlords like myself have provided decent homes for tenants at way below local rentals and use that money to boost their pensions so they don’t have to claim pension credit etc ? Wouldn’t it be nice if a political party thanked us for preventing tenants from being homeless or being accommodated in b and bs at council cost. They like getting the tax tho don’t they?
Member Since May 2022 - Comments: 90
10:19 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
This shows that this Party is certainly GREEN when it comes to Government….
Green as in clueless.
The clearly have no understanding of the real world and policies like this make them unelectable…..
as if they ever were
Member Since May 2015 - Comments: 2204 - Articles: 2
10:28 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Green MPs to be abolished by landlords using their vote.
Member Since February 2025 - Comments: 15
10:31 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Being a vegan I voted for the Green Party for a number of years when Johnson was in, but then having read their housing manifesto and their hate of landlords, I would NEVER vote for the green party again; they’re run by nutters who live on a different planet.
Maybe this is one of the reasons I’m selling off all my propeties now and next years!!
Member Since May 2014 - Comments: 620
10:35 AM, 6th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Reply to the comment left by SirAA at 06/10/2025 – 10:10
What a load of tosh these people spout.
I have been a landlord since the seventies and have provided good homes for people.
They seem to be singing from the same hymn book as the mayor of london who would like to introduce policies to strangle the PRS