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Landlords to be abolished by the Green Party
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 October 2025 - Comments: 1
10:46 AM, 11th October 2025, About 7 months ago
What on earth is the ‘landlord class’?
And do they have no clue what the good and caring private landlords in our scoiety contribute to tenant wellbeing and the local and national enconomy?
Member Since March 2023 - Comments: 1506
8:56 AM, 13th October 2025, About 7 months ago
The Green Party make Corbyn look like a right wing party. Luckily they will never get in to power and some of the local green councillors are very nervous by the policies
Member Since May 2018 - Comments: 2025
1:09 PM, 13th October 2025, About 7 months ago
Reply to the comment left by Blodwyn at 10/10/2025 – 18:28
One of those AI chat bots gave me a response on the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund which was set up using North Sea oil revenues. It’s quite good so I’m just going to copy and paste what it said:
“Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund Global, was set up in 1990 by the Norwegian parliament to manage oil revenues responsibly and safeguard them for future generations. This was a response to the discovery of large North Sea oil fields in 1969 and the government’s desire to avoid the “resource curse” experienced by other commodity-rich nations. The fund was created to ensure that Norway’s oil wealth would not be depleted, but instead would be converted into a long-term financial asset. ”
According to this website:
https://energywatch.com/EnergyNews/investors/article18529177.ece
So far the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has invested about £8BN out of a total mandate of £38BN into renewable energy.
There’s a quote on the website which says:
“We are an infrastructure investor after all, so we are not going to be edgy in terms of the technologies. We stay safe within the wind, solar, grids, more mature storage technologies,” said Harald von Heyden.”
Norway is demonstrating that drill-baby-drill has a future as part of sustainability.
Your average green party councillor needs to join another party. That would be any other party that actually understands what sustainability means. ‘Banning the landlord class’ has got nothing at all to do with sustainability.
Member Since December 2019 - Comments: 18
10:36 AM, 14th October 2025, About 6 months ago
You only need to see the Green Party leader to see he has failure written all over him.
Member Since May 2018 - Comments: 2025
10:41 AM, 14th October 2025, About 6 months ago
Reply to the comment left by MartinR at 14/10/2025 – 10:36
He has certainly failed the Green Party councillors.
And he has let down any members of the electorate that actually voted for any of them in local elections (including me).
Never again.
Member Since August 2016 - Comments: 508
11:27 AM, 14th October 2025, About 6 months ago
The only Green member who ever spoke sense was the Brighton MP who has now retired. A pity, she was good value.
Member Since May 2018 - Comments: 2025
2:34 PM, 14th October 2025, About 6 months ago
Reply to the comment left by Blodwyn at 14/10/2025 – 11:27
What a big disappointment the Green Party are.
They never had any chance of getting into government in this country and having gone to the radical far left middle-England cannot now afford to vote for them even as a protest vote.
Member Since August 2016 - Comments: 508
4:16 PM, 14th October 2025, About 6 months ago
Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 14/10/2025 – 14:34
One sensible voice doesn’t prevent the rest of them being as nutty fruitcakes as Ed Miliband?
Member Since May 2018 - Comments: 2025
4:25 PM, 14th October 2025, About 6 months ago
Reply to the comment left by Blodwyn at 14/10/2025 – 16:16
If you pick one issue or one ministerial position you can sometimes find one sensible voice in the Labour party, one sensible voice in the Conservative Party and historically on some things you might have found one sensible voice come out of a Green Party Councillor if you were looking at who to choose in a local election. Sometimes an independent Green Party candidate might be the one objecting to unsustainable development for example.
But unfortunately sometimes parties get hijacked by either left-wing or right-wing extremists. And that appears to have happened here.
So unfortunately I could now no more vote for a Green Party councillor than I could vote for Adolf Hitler. The Green Party just came out with something deeply offensive, but more importantly they just showed their true colours and came out with something outrageous and unsustainable.
Green Party councillors need to go somewhere else if they want to make a difference to the world.
Member Since March 2025 - Comments: 4
10:09 AM, 23rd October 2025, About 6 months ago
nutters