Landlords to be abolished by the Green Party

Lets hope the other communist party err i mean labour do not catch onto this idea. Landlords have worked hard and invested in our properties so the government does not have to fork out for us when we are old and may be have to go into a care home. Why dont we all just give up and go on benefits, thats what the Greens and labour want us to do.I have had it up to here and in the middle of selling some of my portfolio.

If they don’t believe in property rights then good luck anyone put a green party poster in their window, presumably an open invitation to kick them out and occupy

In what way is this proposal related to any ‘green’ credentials? I thought the aim of ‘The Greens’ was to safeguard our environment. I don’t see any relationship with this nonsense suggestion to their objectives on climate change etc. I think they have somewhat lost their way and may lose a lot of their supporters.

Reply to the comment left by Rob Thomas at 06/10/2025 – 10:59
It’s amazing how many people still believe that Venezuela’s economic problems are due to incompetence.
It’s the US sanctions and deliberate destabilisation efforts in order to achieve regime change to then control the largest proven oil reserves in the world.

What President Trump and his ilk want – then and today – is access to Venezuela’s world’s largest reserves of hydrocarbons, oil and gas. Trillions-worth of dollars. That’s why they need “regime change.”

These huge deposits of hydrocarbon right on the US’ door step so to speak, across the Caribbean Sea, what better and closer could you get?

Reply to the comment left by moneymanager at 06/10/2025 – 18:28
Thatcher was a disaster. It took John Major to clean up her mess!

Reply to the comment left by Rookie Landlord at 07/10/2025 – 09:29
Are you saying that with first hand experience, do you remember the ‘Winter of Discontent’?

Reply to the comment left by moneymanager at 06/10/2025 – 18:28
I think this is true. Gordon Brown repeated the same mistakes Denis Healey did when he said that he would squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

This labour government seems to be making all the same mistakes….they can’t build 1.5 million homes without private investment, and that’s obvious to anybody with any business experience. Although of course this government has barely got any.

Whenever you get ultra-left-wing people in power they always create a disaster and the consequences of that disaster are always inflicted upon the poorest people in society. And when socialist local councils run out of somebody else’s money and demonstrate that their socialist policies aren’t sustainable in any sense, the failed labour councils sit back and say, “…well, of course that must be somebody else’s fault other than ours because somebody else didn’t give us enough of their money.”

And when socialist national governments prove that their socialist policies have failed yet again because they destroy incentive, including the incentive to invest, the union-backed central socialist government always goes “…look at that disaster that we caused with our socialism…that just proves that we need more socialism.”

The definition of a fool is that he keeps doing the same thing over and over again even after it’s been proven that what he was doing is stupid.

The most stupid thing that this bunch of fools is about to do is to introduce the Renters Rights Bill and make it far more risky to house e.g. benefits tenants than asylum seekers and economic migrants. That is an act of EXCEPTIONAL stupidity, particularly after the House of Lords raised valid concerns with the bill.

But saying that makes no difference…because the justification from ultra-left-wingers for their stupidity is always more socialism. It’s a belief system…like believing in fairies, in this case the magic-money-fairy.

There was a post about millionaire exodus, what policies or incentives are in place to retain them ! they killed non-dom which I understand was set up to attract Greek shipping.

The following is lifted from 9 July BBC article, we have a problem with the stock exchange and recently IPOs.

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‘Houston we have a problem’
“Houston we have a problem” was how Mr Soames characterised widespread concern about the steady outflow of companies from UK markets, particularly to the US.

Some well-known and highly regarded UK companies now sell their shares on foreign markets.

Once the jewel in the crown of UK, tech firm ARM Holdings is now listed in New York. Just Eat and Deliveroo have moved or been gobbled up by competitors, Paddy Power’s parent company Flutter is betting on the US, and mining giant BHP headed down under to Australia.

Perennial rumours remain over the future of London stalwarts Shell, and UK’s most valuable company, Astra Zeneca.

Last year alone 88 companies left the UK, and 70 more have departed so far this year. A trickle has become a flood.

Mr Soames said the exits mattered because the stock market is part of the foundations of a financial services industry that pays 10% of all taxes in the UK – “supporting hospitals and schools up and down the land”.

Last year, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange denied it was in crisis despite the high-profile exits.
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How does it end for Landlords !! and we haven’t even discussed displacements due to AI yet.

Not so much the Green party then, more like Red!

Who wouldn’t want a lurch towards communism now, after all it worked so well in ………………..?

Reply to the comment left by AT at 07/10/2025 – 11:48
What’s going on at the moment is even more stupid than that. In the 1970s, the likes of Denis Healey drove rock stars and film stars offshore using the tax-system, and in the end he reduced the tax take.
Somebody I knew in the pharmaceutical industry at the time said, “…Denis Healey is an idiot”. In fact I think that it was Gordon Brown who was the idiot because he did the same things that Denis Healey did even though that kind of nonsense had already been discredited.

The reason why doing this kind of thing now is even more stupid is that it’s not just rock stars, film stars, pharmaceutical companies or the financial services industry who can off-shore all or part of their businesses. Because of the growth of the internet, which of course we didn’t have in the 1970s, even small companies can do it.

The labour party has just had a party conference where they all patted each other on the back and told each other what a great job they were all doing. Very few of these people have any experience of business…but one of the things that you do see occasionally in business is incompetent people gathering together to form cliques to pursue common agendas that are not necessarily for the good of the company. And in the case of the labour party a bunch of incompetent people have gathered together and congratulated each other for doing things that aren’t very good for the country because they damage the economy and in the end that reduces the tax take and reduces what can be spent on healthcare, or other possible benefits.

But the Green Party does now appear to be much worse than the labour party. So that’s that. Never again will I vote for a Green Party councillor in a local election, whatever sympathies I might have on local sustainability issues.