Jeremy Corbyn

trisher you cannot or will not admit Corbyn is a hypocrite such is your devotion. If talking is the only way forward how come he walked out of a meeting on Brexit last week because Chuka Umunna was present , the country in turmoil and he gets the hump because he has a problem with one person, and he the official oposition party leader.
He talks with those who have been expelled from the party but has a hissy fit with someone who chooses to leave the party. He is a hypocrite

I'm surprised you haven't yet blamed him for global warming and climate change Annie I'm sure you could do it if you tried.

A man who wants to retire is in the wrong grandad1943 ?
He must be responsible for tenants ? This is what private renting is, it’s a business not a charity , tenants have to accept tenancy agreements, I lived in a private let for 9 years so I certainly know how it is to not know if or when your tenancy ends. If Corbyn is elected PM he would be very foolish to force landlords to let properties on his terms, more houses will be sold so less private lets which means more homeless

trisher a very childish reply.

I know that Keir Starmer may have his critics, and perhaps rightly so, but who else has the intellect to lead the LP?

I'd hope integrity is part of the package too?

Starmer has proved himself a liar and hypocrite, as have many MPs who voted to trigger Article 50.

Both Corbyn and Starmer repeatedly said they promised to respect and uphold the result of the referendum

From September last year - Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, confirmed that Labour were not “ruling out Remain as an option” as he backed a second referendum.

His repeated promises to respect the referendum result lie in tatters

Labour has no intention of delivering Brexit, despite a large "Labour Leave" group urging we leave the EU.

The party as a whole abides by the manifesto produced for GEs.

No it doesn't trisher

Thanks Jalima

In the media this week it was reported that a very wealthy private landlord is evicting a large number of tenant families from their homes in the North of England simply because he and his wife "wish to retire."
That is rather a disingenuous statement Grandad; I presume this is the landlord you mean:

The couple say they hope to sell their properties to investors who will retain the tenants, but they have already issued 90 eviction notices - and more will follow.

If a landlord has difficult tenants who may not care for the property properly, should the landlord not have the right to evict them?
Not all landlords are evil, not all tenants are perfect by any means.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-47612106
This landlord does not sound like the most charitable person from the report - but he is not running a charity and he does say that much more housing needs to be built to fulfil the need.
Perhaps may well sell the majority of the houses with sitting tenants.

Anniebach, in regard to your post @ 17:28 today (24/03/19) which was a reply to my earlier post, I believe you demonstrate comprehensively why the Tory party will lose the next general election.

You state that private renting tenants must just accept the terms of their rental agreement. That means they can be evicted on one month's notice when with Britains current housing crisis, alternative affordable housing accommodation can be very difficult to find.

In that, even when alternative housing is found, there are often children who then have to change schools which causes major disruption to their education and loss of friends

There are also the parents who find that alternative accommodation is often a long distance from their workplace, disrupting the hours they can work and complicating child collection from schools.

There is much else that could be added to the above, but I feel you would not concern yourself with such facts anniebach. In that, you have stated that you see peoples homes in the private renting sector purely as a business matter and nothing else.

That is the reason "Blair socialism" and those that support it have been comprehensively rejected by today's Labour party and rightly so.

Britain has an enormous housing crisis with many not able to buy a home due to cost. Therefore, private renting accommodation is the only option open to very many families. However, you speak of those families anniebach as nothing else but collateral funding for private business with it being correct that such people should have no rights or recourse from sudden eviction on one month's notice.

For such attitudes to prevail and all the above to be able to take place in Britain in 2019 is nothing short of totally disgusting. I am sure that when such matters are placed in front of the electorate at the next general election, Labour will gain huge support to bring such scandals to an end.

Renting property is a business not a charity. To condemn someone who wants to retire is so wrong. I still say if private let landlords are given too many rules which they must legally abide by before there is social housing built then there will be more private let properties put on the market and more people homeless .

And I need no lectures on renting a private let , I did so for 9 years , I feel sympathy for anyone eho does the same but this ‘awwww’ attitude is stupid. I live in the real world.

Jalima1108, the landlord in question is most certainly not a "nice person."

The media report generated that he evicted a family from one of his property purely because they complained in regard to poor maintenance on the property (I think it was the roof that was leaking).

In an interview, the landlord did not deny the allegation and stated he thought it right that landlords have "full power" over tenants.

The above is known as "revenge eviction" and is perfectly legal under current private renting legislation.

If landlords en masse chose to sell their properties because they object to providing decent accommodation for a reasonabler amount of time and at a reasonable rent, then the market will be flooded with properties for sale.

That, admittedly, won't be the greatest news for people who are buying, or who own, their homes (as I suspect many older people do, including myself), because then property prices will fall. But it will mean that younger people will have more chance to buy a home instead of paying extortionate rents.

At the moment, those extortionate rents are, in many cases, being part paid by taxpayers through housing benefit. In my opinion, a far better option is to return to providing council housing for those who cannot afford to buy. Council housing is a public asset whereas paying housing benefit to landlords has no benefit to anyone but the landlord.

Not all landlords are greedy and negligent but there seems to be a significant number who are. I have no sympathy whatsoever for them and if there are any gransnetters who do, I assume they are not stuck in expensive, sub-standard accommodation with the threat of eviction hanging over them if they ask for essential maintenance to be carried out.

Anniebach, I believe this forum has seen the real picture of your so-called socialist beliefs today.

I will say no more than that.

Promise *granddad1943 ? Yippee

Eleothan we only hear of bad landlords, there are many good ones, as there are good and bad tenants.

We need social housing but there are rigid rules for these too.

And i lived for 9 years in a private let where the stairs were unsafe, and the landladies man friend was a bully , so I More that the majority here know what it’s like living in a private let but I still say these properties are a business not a charity . As I said in an earlier post, I live in the real world.

I'm not sure if I've followed the arguments about landlords and tenants accurately. But surely an eviction as described by Grandad can only take place after a some kind of court order.
Unless the landlord is using bullyboys, which is also illegal.
Last year Southend Council tried to bring in a law that all private landlords should be registered. Not sure if it was agreed.

Fennel, I believe the terms of eviction are normally written into the tenancy agreement. I further believe that a private landlord can give a tenant a minimum of one months notice under current legislation without need to state why.

I feel that the legislation surrounding private renting is the core of the problem. It would seem people get more legal rights and recourse when buying or leasing a car than they do when renting a home in the private sector.

I stand to be corrected in any of the above, but as stated, I feel I am correct.

I agree with your post Eloethan.

Why, then, do councils dabble in property ownership by buying up commercial property costing millions of pounds, instead of investing that money in building decent homes for those who live in their area who cannot afford to buy and struggle to pay commercial rents?

The excuse is that it generates income - but then, so would the rents of council properties.

Fennel you are correct, if the agreement is one months notice the tenant is not on the street in one month . There are appeals which does prolong the months agreement .

When one buys a car one owns the car if payments are honoured, when one rents a house one never has shares or
ownership of property.

Grandad1943, from my own children's experience of private rental it is 2 months notice for no reason by the landlord. They experienced this for the second time recently, but fortunately had already started a flat purchase themselves. The landlord had decided to sell the property, had put it on the market and thought my son and partner should allow viewings. No way Jose, not while they were paying the rent!

Morecambe and lies

Good grief, was this realy when the March was taking place ?

I think so. Corbyn was conspicuous by his absense

I wasn't the only one who noticed he wasn't there

Sorry this is off topic but I've just realised that there must be many 'unofficial' lettings, without a contract stating length of notice etc.
For 6 months tenancy contracts the notice period is 2 months,

Expect there are Fennel but if help with rent is being given tenancies agreements are checked, some try claiming rent but not living in the property, then there immigrants who are desperate for housing and some crammed in friends, the type of landlord renting out these properties are rogue landlords. Then we have tenants who rent council properties and sub let. It can be a murky world.