Green Party Votes to Abolish Landlords
The Green Party has committed itself to “abolishing landlords” after party members at its conference in Bournemouth passed a motion to seek the “effective abolition of private landlordism”. The Telegraph has the story.
Tenants would be given first right to buy when a landlord sells, with their “total rent paid discounted” and government-backed financing provided. Councils would be given second right to buy.
The party also wants to introduce rent controls, abolish Right to Buy for public tenants and end buy-to-let mortgages.
Carla Denyer, Green MP for Bristol Central, sought to play down the new policy, saying: “While the motion to conference had an eye-catching name, it does not actually ‘abolish’ landlords.
“It does however address the housing crisis, empowers tenants and improves their wellbeing.”
The motion said that landlords added “no positive value to the economy or society” and that the “relationship between landlord and tenant is inherently and intrinsically extractive and exploitative”.
Party activists also backed a land value tax on landowners, levying National Insurance on private rents and making all rental agreements long-term tenancies that can be terminated only by the tenant.
Those who let out Airbnbs or offer other short-term lets would have to pay business rates, while there would be double taxation for empty properties.
The party hopes the policy will trigger a wave of council house building.
Ms Denyer said: “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.”
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The biggest idiots on the UK political landscape
If you also add in Ed Miliband, then yes.
Closely followed by the idiots who want to impose Capital Gains Tax on main/only homes.
There is quite a competition out there at the moment for that title.
Are they?
To me it looks like the Greens are just proposing more of what every government has been doing since WW2, which is indulge the population with gifts and so called rights underwritten by the productive part of the population.
Health care, housing, education, welfare benefits, disability benefits, “free” transport for pensioners, paid sick leaves, paid maternity leaves.
It’s all the same, the only difference being that we’ve become used to the current set of gifts and “rights”.
If the Greens got their way and managed to impose these new burdens on the productive class, eventually we would get used to those too and the idea of taking them away would seem preposterous.
100%
And all paid for by debt and economic regression.
Indeed. And very soon, there’d be nothing left of other people’s wealth to give away, and no production to tax.
What next?
Ban mud!
Ban doors!
Idiots!
Well, competition is strong…
Looking at you, PC and SNP – absolute la-la-land cuckoo clubs.
We should stop giving our power to politicians. All politicians. The belief in the legitimacy and utility of ‘the state’ is an indoctrinated cult. Not like a cult, an actual cult.
So renting will become a system of free gifts. And very quickly there will be no rented accommodation available. All of which proves that the Greens are deliriously detached from reality. But then the Green Party always hated the world as it really is, and human beings (especially the white ones) as they actually are.
Agreed. The Greens are fanatically authoritarian and deeply anti-human.
Not all the Greens. One of their previous MPs had 5 homes and did not realise there was a mainline train service from Brighton to Victoria.
That won’t go down very well with Caroline Lucas, if what I’ve been led to understand is really the case.
Abolish Marxist greens.
Next idea? Abolish money? Pol Pot tried it.
Maybe they should vote to abolish gravity, as it’s such a drag on progressivism.
If there is no chance of winning power, they can say what they like. No risk of being caught out if it doesn’t work that way.
They might be part of a grand “stop the right” coalition and have some influence on that basis
And at least they tell us what they plan doing, as opposed to revealing these policies afterwards (see the digital ID introduction).
mentalists, but great that they are all coralled in one place
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase green with envy.
You beat me to it
Oh dear. They would abolish me and my tenant because she’s a landlord too.
iMpOSsibLe!
When nobody rents property, that certainly will “address” the housing crisis.
Lots of wealthy people also choose to rent because it’s uncomplicated where mobility is required and for many other reasons of convenience. Perhaps someone could explain to these fantasists that landlords are already burdened with all kinds of obligations and costs. Although I can’t imagine it would stop the Greens barking at the moon, you can’t fix stupidity.
Coming up – Green Party votes to abolish bad weather…
If the total rental paid is discounted, the landlord will just push the price up to compensate, or try to get new tenants in before selling. The tenant can’t afford it and the council ends up overpaying for the house.
I think that they are very ill!
So this means that all the young men of fighting age that are rocking up on our shores, and all being put up in whatever accommodation can be found, some might be lucky enough to become homeowners.
They don’t actually pay their rent – we do!
They can vote to give everyone £10 million, but they’ll never be in power, so like outlawing landlords, it’ll never happen. There are a number of owner/Tennant relationships referenced in the Bible, so God didn’t outlaw it, so why should we
Green Party’s ‘abolish landlords’ vote could affect own MP
The Green Party has made it party policy to “abolish landlords” – even though one of its four MPs rents out a home in Norfolk.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25521296.green-partys-abolish-landlords-vote-affect-mp
So all those Green-Party supporting students who live in digs provided by private landlords whilst they get indoctrinated with left-wing propaganda will be voting to make themselves homeless.
Do you think they have sufficient intellectual capacity to work that out?
I don’t.
“Tenants would be given first right to buy when a landlord sells, with their “total rent paid discounted” and government-backed financing provided. Councils would be given second right to buy.
The party also wants to introduce rent controls, abolish Right to Buy for public tenants and end buy-to-let mortgages.”
So the tenant can’t afford to buy the property, the council steps in and the tenant is still a tenant, but has now just lost the right to buy the property.
Net result, the council ends up with a lot of very expensive property on their hands with a controlled rent, so can’t claw back the massive price the departing landlord has charged them, and up goes everyone’s council tax to pay for this and no new council properties can be built because they have no money.
Good plan greens, got any others?
Diet sodas contain aspartame, a known carcinogenic. Is your government run by compete and utter idiots? When dodgy governments start controlling what you may eat or drink, I can tell you, you are in serious trouble. Get out of the Uk if possible.