Landlords to be abolished by the Green Party

seems quite a logical idea. Cease all BTL lending immediately, let LL’s roll off their existing deal into a compulsory purchase order at say 1966 prices. To expediate the process curtail all existing lending to a five year term. Outright owners could be subject to to an immediate CPO to get the ball rolling.
And then I woke up..

Reply to the comment left by Robert Jackson at 08/10/2025 – 14:33
You might have woken up but the Green Party didn’t…they are still in dreamland.

And because Middle-England will realise that the Green Party are now a radical left-wing party, local Green-Party councillors are now heading down the path to a permanent sleep. That is unless they now abandon the Green Party and join something new that is actually talking about sustainable policies that are real.

That could include introducing capital allowances for photovoltaics and local energy generation and storage for example….or allowing landlords to offset their finance costs for the more energy efficient properties.

The BBC in the last couple of days reported that renewables have now overtaken coal worldwide:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

And in the same week the Green Party came out with something completely ridiculous. Anybody with primary school maths can work out that the government cannot afford to build 1.5 million homes, sustainable or not. And you also don’t need to be an economist, just somebody capable of reading a half-decent newspaper, to realise that collapsing the economy in the way the Green Party recommended doesn’t solve the housing crisis.

Reply to the comment left by Bristol Landlord at 07/10/2025 – 00:01
The US did the same against Japan when they stitched up the commercially naive and emergent Japan and gradually curtailled access to all manner of things and especially oil, if the US had actually wanted a war with Japan, they would have followed the same tactics, they did much the same in Europe when they formented a schism in negotiations between Berlin and Warsaw and goaded Britain into giving a newly installed and belligerent government ( think Ukraine after Maidan, Syria with its ex alnQyeda PM etc) a blank cheque, it really is ‘all about duh munny).

Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 07/10/2025 – 11:37
To help the Green Party I have done the honorable thing; rather than waiting till January I spoke to our property agent and have given our agreed to market a property this month. This will sadly displace three tenants.

Reply to the comment left by moneymanager at 08/10/2025 – 15:19
While the Green Party’s national platform supports renewable energy and the widespread installation of solar panels on buildings, their stance on local solar farms isn’t explicitly stated. They have an interest in ‘community-owned’ energy sources and so you would have thought that they would be genuinely interested in localised energy production. And you would also have thought that their focus on rooftop solar would imply support for decentralised, local generation.

So what a huge shame they weren’t able to join the dots and come out with something sensible. If landlords and homeowners weren’t penalised by the tax system for delivering this kind of thing then it could actually be delivered. It would empower landlords and homeowners to do it. At the moment the third world is surging ahead with renewables, although mostly because of energy security and access rather than trying to slow climate change per se.

And yet this week the Green Party just came out with something really stupid. For community owned, just read communism.

But there must be some other party out there that has the intelligence to understand the delivery of local power generation that any Green Party Councillor who has a brain could join and stop wasting his or her time with this bunch of muppets.

Reply to the comment left by moneymanager at 07/10/2025 – 10:41
Do you remember 14 years of austerity with increasing dept to GDP and stagnant wages? (Bunch of incompetents)

Yes, I lived through the winter of discontent. I was about 12 years old. I can honestly say it had pretty much zero impact on mt life. The last 14 years of the Tories had a far greater negative impact on my life (and my children’s life) than the winter of dicontent did.

Reply to the comment left by LaLo at 06/10/2025 – 12:16
That’s exactly what will happen, maybe in our lifetime.
No government or council. All such buidings that house the councils and the government offices need to be converted to social housing and so called MPs and civilservants need to look after these social tenants as a full time jobs.
Running the council and governemnt is to be done by people with relevant skills. Council workers only work part time or work from home. So people in their normal full time or part time jobs can volunteer their time for council work to look after the small community of theirs. The chanceller need to understand the economics and business, so needs to be elected as per the right skills. Not based on learn on the job kind of chancellor. It is not we will do this to get more tax without understanding the consequences of their actions. Need people who can think out of the box and have long term solutions and not because they want to stay in power and win votes. The hoising secretary needs to be from a landlord sector to understnd the real problems. For a start instead of having all responsibilities and liabilities to be handed to landlords, tennats need to be educated and trained how to look after their own place. The rents can be reduced by 20 to 30% and get the tennats to pay for all the damages they do, all certificates and maintenance to pay for as if it was their own home. The contrac should state what the tenants would be responsible for. Soon they will start respecting the proeprties and maybe able to buy their own property or stay in rented accomodation all their life.
The government would make sure that taxes from landlords, or stamp duty or capital gains (anything to do with property tax) is in a separate pot for housing, to purchase properties. It is incorrect to put all taxes in one pot and utilise it a haphazard manner. Evey pot needs to be put separately and spent accordingly.
A lot of council offices are 50% empty and they work like 9am to 5pm. Landlords work 7 days for 24 hours. A lot of businesses work long hours, unlike council and government. MPs claim a lot of expenses to stay in , London. If the job is in Londong, they should move to London and buy their own place like other professionals and workers move to London. Why civil servants have better rights: If money is coming from taxpayers, it needs be respected and not spent for personal gains. MPS and government offices are far too expensive to run. I hate to think that the landlords taxes are going to provide a cushy lifestyle for the MPs.

As ALL Parties have lied to you, voting for None of the Above is your wish. However, voting is now compulsory, subject to the penalty of sitting on a toadstool chanting the mantra Big Brother Loves You and Me for 7 days a week for 7 years. Your voting choices will be to vote for Love Cadres 1, 2 or 3. All their publications will be strangely similar, the same words and pictures.
Easy peasy, thinking abolished 🐰

Reply to the comment left by Blodwyn at 10/10/2025 – 04:48
This week has been a week for the radical and the whacky. All that really happened is that the Green Party showed its true colours…it’s not really ‘green’ in any sense of the word. It’s policies aren’t sustainable and unfortunately what it just came out with is so bad that it is actually juvenile. Radically stupid, not radically constructive.

This week we saw news saying that photovoltaics have now overtaken fossil fuels as the dominant power IN THE THIRD WORLD. The reason has nothing to do with climate change, just access to energy.

And this fact really does expose the lies of all the parties. Unfortunately at the moment that includes Reform who might otherwise be seen as an alternative. Reform have come out against a move to renewables but this week we saw market research saying that a high proportion of Reform members actually support adoption of renewables. Of course, Reform Party members might support adoption of renewables because it would diversify our energy supply and make the country less dependent upon Russian oil and gas rather than for any reasons to do with climate change. A lot of people are still old enough to remember the unions holding the country to ransom for more money when we were dependent upon coal for our energy. Maybe Reform just need to clarify their position.

A party like the Green party ought to do better in an environment like this if they really wanted to be seen as an alternative party or even just a pressure group. Radical policies might include allowing landlords to offset their finance costs on EPC band A properties if EPC band A was a property using photovoltaics and energy storage. It might include introducing capital allowances for introducing these technologies. It could propose a policy for owner-occupiers to be permitted tax breaks for installing them. Instead they came out with some juvenile communist c**p.

The reason why the Green Party might have wanted to do this is because right now the only thing that makes any economic sense in the sixth biggest economy in the world is a modern condensing gas boiler. But in the the third world the thing that makes sense is photovoltaic panels. 80% of photovoltaic panels are made in China. China is also 50-70% of global wind turbine manufacturing capacity.

It would have made sense to extract more North Sea oil and gas and invest that in a sovereign wealth fund that would be available to establish an industry in the UK to manufacture these technologies. As Norway did.

So in a country where all parties have been lying to us, where is the party that wants to come clean, genuinely understands what it would take to diversify our energy system and make it less dependent upon centralised oil and gas supplies? If this party that genuinely understood sustainability stopped lying and came out with something sustainable then all those local green party councillors could go off and join a movement that was genuinely sustainable.

Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 10/10/2025 – 12:49
Indeed, the only words I clearly recall over the past few months that have rung clear are, “Drill, Baby, Drill”?