Landlords threatening to stop donating to their local conservative parties or something?
Seems to me that what is required is simply a longer period for the no fault section 21 eviction, like 6 months notice would be more suitable to move your whole life to somewhere new. 4 months would be an improvement.
I can see section 21 no fault eviction helps drive the rental prices up as suddenly you have people desperate to rent somewhere new, if they had more time might drive rental prices down as they could refuse too high asking price for rent.
Seems a pretty typical parliamentary thing, pursuing the wrong solution to a problem, which is quite probably wrong (i.e. a landlord probably should be able to reclaim their property, but the notice period istm the problem) and so it gets thrown out as it was a ludicrous solution they proposed in the first place. Status Quo achieved! They looked like they were doing something, made lots of political capital promising to do something and then do nothing or worse!
It occurred to me, there is a program “Today in Parliament” and a funny thought occurred to me that it was a very filtered bbc programming… “Today in parliament, the MP for rottenboroughshire drank 30 pints of continental lager and two nebuchadnezzars of champagne at discount prices on expenses whilst conducting a shady business deal” Eh!!!
And the reason I thought of “Today in Parliament” which of course I already know of having been an avid R4 listener before the feminist/lgbt and faux-gimp bunch took over was… I could not take any more of the mainstream media and their mind-boggling shite! and thought, OK where do I get trustworthy news from…. nowhere you do not see for yourself eh! I mean not from viddy on youtube or wherever, I mean with your own eyes… the blind eh! humanity still an element of kindness around eh! or do they still feel secure in England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales ????
Oh yeah and as for the Hansard report on the Israel Gaza thing, like that red-wristband fishy-rishi guy eh! “israel will abide by international law” as his only one reply required to any question spiel eh! when stm israel are kind of embodying shylock… got several times their pound of mushy flesh already eh! My point being apart from the israel thing, that the source is as bad or worse than the spun bbc precis…
Of course you cannot tell what way it would have gone had Mosaddeq not been deposed, but Iran seems a beast of the wests own making, and indeed the Ayatollah lorded it up in france for quite a while eh! Ah! Oil eh! and extraction contracts eh! money eh! Sure there is a better way, but I still believe in competition (of ideals) with co-operation, perhaps without so much cloak and dagger and blood letting, though a good battle is always a spectacle in film at least… not so much fun if you get the part of second ensign whatever-his-name was in Galaxy-Quest eh! Such an excellent break the third wall character… Galaxy-Quest, what a film eh!
So today the BBC has a story about how the “Student rental market in crisis” due to landlords putting up rent 16% per year last two years, and the angle the bbc big bunch of c@nts come at it is that we simply do not give students big enough loans to pay the rapacious landlords their demands. And that is why I cannot read the mainstream media anymore, I keep forgetting I have resolved to stop reading the mainstream media corporat-king schiester shite and keep coming across stories like this saying its OK for landlords (assorted political party donor/member types) to bleed the populace as they like.