Reform plans to rip up Renters’ Rights Act after tenants wait years for no-fault evictions ban

What a pathetic party. Women’s rights, workers rights, renters rights.

These clowns want to take us back to the industrial revolution. Waiting for Nigel to announce he wants children working in factories.

Watch them still win the next GE because their voters are illiterate

Call me naïve but I’m more convinced now that Robert Jenrik will challenge Farage for leadership.

Reform’s policies such as removing the 2 child benefit cap, in addition to the 2+ Labour members ready to defect to them – suddenly it feels like the brakes have slammed the moment Jenrik joined.

This wasn’t the case with the Tory defections before Jenrik. Farage himself is a known anti royalist, while since under Richard Tice’s leadership Reform backs scrapping interest on student debt, and even made an effort to announce a tree planting programme as a means to appeal to environmentalists. In 2024, Farage even went as far as to praise younger generations, notably Gen Z, as opposed to the slagging off Reform have given them of recent.

– but suddenly, the second Jenrik joined, the very mention of slightly left wing concepts has gone silent, replaced by verbal rhetoric slagging off younger generations as being lazy and wanting benefits and ‘sleeping in all day’ instead of commuting on a train to work in an office instead.

It’s a real shame, but to be honest if you willingly choose to shut out credible voices of the left like this you will inevitably lose.

Likewise with Gorton, Matt Goodwin led a very sour Jenrik style campaign, so it’s no wonder the Greens won.

Feeling like Farage is going FULL Trump, and sees Starmer as Obama/Biden.

Johnson was the test run – Farage / Lowe / Yaxley-Lennon are the Trump/Bannon for the UK.

THEY are the existential threat of our way of life.

With the support of the world’s richest man behind them, and the media barons/Putin master propagandists, THEY are the terrorists.

They have to be taken seriously as a threat.

I know this sub never met a regulation it didn’t like especially against landlords but there is an argument that some of the RR act is not well thought through or goes too far. What for example is the sense in not allowing rent in advance? For some poor credit tenants that opens doors. It helped me when I moved back from abroad without much history. Allowing rent increases to go to tribunal whilst not having the capacity to run them and not backdating rent increases is stupid. There is going to be the perverse incentive for every tenant to challenge every rent increase (for free) knowing the tribunal will be delayed by months and the rent increase therefore also delayed. Swamping the system is just a self fulfilling prophesy at this point and landlords are going to push rent increases knowing the system is stacked against them. The government position seems to be let’s see how it goes but it’s obviously a flawed concept.

This could all have been handled better. Make evicting bad tenants who don’t pay easier alongside making it harder to remove good tenants. Have rent tribunals set up for genuine cases and not just as rent control by the back door.

But booo landlords are parasites etc so here we are. I’m not a landlord by the way.