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Graham Jones's avatar

Great article. If you are going to shift the Overton window, shift it in your direction; a catastrophic error made by successive Tory administrations. This bill will result in rental property coming off the market and accelerate the already eye watering rent increases.

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Brian Edmunds's avatar

Spot on Steve. I can’t think of a worse bill!…. Until the next one!!…this has swung the pendulum too far the other way. Labour just can’t seem to do anything correctly!…. But neither could the Conservatives for 14 years. The whole reason for mission creep as you state, is money and control. Those landlords who clearly have abused the system before snd since 1914 have clearly been the culprits who have forced such legislation upon us. It’s those who break acceptable moral standards who then force the state to react to correct that position. But, in so doing make the pendulum swing so far the other way it beggars belief! Instead of making small changes over time they put a wrecking ball through the present laws. But underlying all this inaction and over action, lay the Government’s need for more and ever more taxable income from penalties, fines and no doubt a strangle hold on revenue from what has become a gravy train since the days of a cheap slum to live in!… Controls of people and business mean only one thing, surety of taxable income. Their perceived need for evermore tax revenue and their inability to make ends meet has required them to take evermore control over us and our business. It’s the greed of the greedy. In controlling the flow of money do as to keep hold of it. Whereby the need for any economy is the basic need for money to never stop flowing, the rich want to ‘keep’ it so as to control those ‘downstream’ from them. And it’s the political classes who aspire to be those who control. Fairness has gone out the window Steve, well before 1914. I would say it’s been unfair since time in memorial. Politicians don’t seem to know where to draw the line because of party controls over what should be independent constituent led MPs. If we were to see MPs actually think for themselves I would hope a fairer line could and should be sort. But, now we are in the world of instant communication, I don’t think we need old ways. We should all be able to vote for change from the comfort of our own homes at the press of a button. Why leave it to bias? Give the people the choice. On a daily basis. We need a modern democracy not one stuck in the past. It’s obviously failing. And has failed us long before 1914.

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Julian Patrick's avatar

Indeed the war on landlords did start under the Tories. Alas the actual conservative Tories like Steve were in the minority.

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