The government thinks a landlord’s house is more dangerous than a car with no MOT

The new database won’t catch the biggest rogue landlords – the government is the biggest rogue landlord. Most disrepair claims are against council houses. The stats for my local council show they have rented properties missing gas safety certificates…really! II will use Labour logic – if the councils were fined for all these breaches it would raise enough to give everyone a tax cut!!

Reply to the comment left by Tiger at 06/10/2026 – 14:55
“Noone takes them to task.”

I don’t think blaming Herman (Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits) is right. It’s not his fault.

From the Times newspaper Labour shelves £800m on repairs to ‘dilapidated’ military housing
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/labour-repairs-military-housing-cuts-budget-th25shbz2

“14,000 properties were in such poor condition that they needed knocking down or comprehensive floor-to-ceiling renovation.”

Antony Cotton, an armed forces advocate said: “Some of those houses were built 80 years ago, to last no more than 20 years. I’ve been in houses that have no insulation. They are literally a brick wall with plaster board on the inside of it. Prisoners would not be housed as badly.” and “A soldier, an aviator, a sailor or a marine should … not be thinking about whether their child’s bedroom has mould crawling up the walls.”

I wonder how many of these houses have an EPC of E or above. I expect the military is not subject to Awaab’s law. Two tier justice for landlords!

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 07/10/2026 – 11:46

Disgusting in’t in Ian. An hour documentary we need on TV to show what this Govt are like & they & the Councils have done to tenants via Landlords.

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 07/10/2026 – 12:26
That’s almost…but not quite a good summary of what this government is like. This government is fundamentally dishonest. For example, they keep on saying they are going to fix the housing problem with council houses. But labour has not built a significant number of new COUNCIL houses under their current government. Council houses represent 2,811 out of 73,600 homes built, i.e. less than 4% of new homes built have been council houses.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-council-house-building-burnham-funding-b3039457.html

The government came to power saying they had to deliver economic growth; this is a market where 90% of employment is in small business and where it is general common knowledge that after the 2008 crash 90% of the growth in employment also came from small business. And what labour did immediately after they came to power was to punish both employers for employing people and investors for investing in the UK economy. What fool would do that?

This government consistently SAYS one thing but DOES something else. The Renters Rights Act is a disaster and labour’s proposals for a landlord database, if it goes ahead, would make the situation even worse than it is now.

Despite what the government keeps saying, it was always obvious to anybody who wasn’t either a liar or an idiot that labour didn’t have the money to fix the housing problem with council houses.

Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 07/10/2026 – 13:26
Yep, to please voters. There is a few people now saying the Renters Right Act needs to be scrapped. Let’s hope so before too many lose their homes.

Reply to the comment left by Suspicious Steve at 06/10/2026 – 18:51
Except the councils would effectively be fining themselves!

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 15:04
Mick, I agree the Renters’ Rights Act is terrible but it is just the Tories’ Renters’ Reform Bill with some added pain and a few elephant traps for landlords. Michael Gove and numerous other allegedly conservative MPs were seduced by the claim that s21 causes homelessness. They are now discovering that a shortage of properties to rent causes homelessness.
I feel sorry for those tenants who thought the RRA would help.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 08/10/2026 – 10:33

You telling me Elephant traps. There’s always something to trip u up & catch us out. Getting fined £7000 cause I got a date wrong from 10 years ago?
It’s ridiculous, it needs looking at. Lot of us are good people who are housing people that the Council & Govt can’t. We genuinely aren’t bad people-And you want to fine us £7000? Cause you know a landlord who was a bad person?

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 08/10/2026 – 11:01
This is absolutely right. The government is letting out criminals early because it hasn’t got enough prison places. At the same time through its Renters Rights Act (and shortly via its landlord database) the government is criminalising a group of people who for the most part have been doing something socially-useful, something the government needs because the citizens of the UK need it…investment in housing.

Over the same period that this labour government has been in power, less than 4% of the houses built have been council houses. But the government persists with the lie that they are going to fix the housing problem by building council houses and 1.5 million new homes. It’s all just lies. The numbers are obvious and the money markets understand them.