The End Of The Labour Party
August 8, 2016
Seeing Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith debating at Cardiff last week has left me pretty certain that the Labour Party as we know it is coming to an end. Some of the current Labour leader’s policies – like his ambition to build 120,000 council houses per annum – are laudable, others like his opposition to Trident and confirmation that as Prime Minister he would never press the nuclear button owe more to dogma and poor advice.
A recent YouGov poll has shown the Tories have a […]
At just over five weeks since the EU referendum, the Westminster village has calmed and one or two senior political figures have even gone on holiday. A long way from the panorama of hourly breaking news headlines and a stream of political shocks. I’ve just re-read a blog I wrote called ‘The Mess We’re In’ which included comment […]
I thought I was a lukewarm Remain voter, but today I am gutted. The most sobering image of the day so far is Nigel Farage declaring a new dawn. As I walked to my local café in Hackney, the atmosphere is one of shock: our borough returned the second highest vote for Remain in the UK. Friends in Spain texted me ‘mala noticia’ though one of them is ready to pounce on cheap equities. The FTSE was down 7% at the start of the day, […]
It is nearly a year since the Summer budget when Osborne announced the first raft of punishing tax changes for the UK’s 1.7 million landlords, only to be compounded by yet more in the Autumn statement. After much gloom had descended on the landlord community and many resolve to sell up, it was with so fantastic last week to hear the news that the Court of Appeal ruled that West Bromwich building society was not entitled to arbitrarily hike mortgage interest rates for landlords. The […]
I spoke to many landlords at the recent Property Investor Show at Excel in London. Here are what I think are the top ten challenges facing London landlords: