@mtpennycook This is Matthew Pennycook’s last-minute application to keep his job as Housing Minister under the next PM.
All we’ve had from him is foot-dragging, excuses and watered-down reforms.
Andy will need an insurgent willing to take on the rentier interests, not be swayed by them.
@mtpennycook You are a disgrace.
This is going to hurt leaseholders as many freeholders will just charge above the £250 cap.
Quid pro quo leases gives freeholders a powerful new carve-out.
Remember, possession is nine-tenths of the law. So long as this category exists, they will abuse it.
“This is the last gasps of a failing Prime Minister.”
We speak to Ian Collins about Starmer and his aides cooking up a sham concession to leaseholders.
Labour promised to END leasehold, not keep the racket going until 2068.
The current Bill is unsafe and must be overhauled.
Leasehold is looting people and blocking growth.
@AndyBurnhamGM@wesstreeting, take on middlemen and extortionists.
Reverse @Keir_Starmer’s betrayal of leaseholders.
Overhaul his weak, lobbyist-friendly Bill.
Honour the manifesto. End leasehold for good. We’ll cheer you on.
HOW BLAIR KILLED HOMEOWNERSHIP 🥀
Tony Blair has some serious cheek.
He helped create today’s housing crisis when he abandoned Labour’s 1995 promise to replace leasehold with commonhold.
By shelving the proposals in “An End to Feudalism”, drafted by Nick Raynsford and the late Frank Dobson and signed off by a fresh-faced Tony Blair as one of his first policy prospectuses, Blair’s Labour paved the way for today’s leasehold scandal.
Blair’s Labour screwed the people for the benefit of the property elites, keeping power in the hands of the few over the many.
Starmer’s Labour must atone for the 2002 Act betrayal.
Commonhold for the many, not just the new.
Use the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill to deliver the remaining Law Commission enfranchisement and Right to Manage recommendations promised in Labour’s 2024 manifesto and the July 2024 King’s Speech.
No more excuses. Be worthy of the Labour name.
Criminal gangs have exploited our high streets to launder their dirty money and undercut honest businesses.
We're hitting back with a nationwide crackdown to shut these fronts down, seize dirty cash, drive organised crime off our high streets and put bosses behind bars.
Given the ridiculous volume of Prime Ministers that Britain’s endured in recent years, I think it should now be law that if a PM quits or is forced out during his/her term, it automatically triggers a new general election. That might concentrate their minds to do a better job.
🚨 BREAKING:
🇺🇸 BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK JUST SAID ON CNBC:
"WE ARE JUST AT THE BEGINNING OF GROWING THE GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKET."
THIS GUY MANAGES OVER $11.5T IN ASSETS AND IS BUYING BILLIONS NOW.
HE DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING!!
@mtpennycook What was is going to change regards the approach to leasehold? Will the Government finally make all leaseholders eligible for RTM? And will they now set ground rent to peppercorn and forget this £250 for 40yrs nonsense?
@Keir_Starmer show some ambition deliver on the manifesto
Labour had a plan to win power. They never had a plan to govern, and they are letting the country down.
This week, the Conservatives are laying out another stage in our plans for how we would get Britain working again.
This is our alternative King’s Speech, a serious and fully funded legislative programme for a Stronger Economy and a Stronger Country. There’s more to do but if we were giving the King’s Speech my team would:
Leave the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights act so we can secure our borders and stop illegal asylum claims.
Deliver cheaper energy by scrapping green levies and ideological net zero targets.
Strengthen policing with 10,000 more police, tougher stop and search, and immediate justice.
Restore the two-child benefit cap, and face to face PIP assessments.
Back our military by increasing funding to 3% of GDP and protecting our veterans.
Help young people by scrapping interest on plan 2 student loans, and getting under 16s off social media.
And so much more.
The country has had enough of this drift. The Conservatives are doing the work. Read our plans👇
@SteveReedMP Why don't you and @mtpennycook resign? You have significantly contributed to @UKLabour failure at the May elections. Failed promises on ending leasehold, failure to grasp what is needed for a significant housing supply policy, failure to engage those impacted. Poor, very poor.
💢BBC REPORT THAT COMMONHOLD & LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL WILL BE IN KINGS SPEECH💢
This is good news if confirmed on Weds 13th May
@NLC_2019@mtpennycook@SteveReedMP@LKPleasehold
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