Landlords should be stripped of empty homes, says Labour's Emily Thornberry

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Leadership hopeful calls for 'bigger stick' to be used to punish wealthy landlords

The former director of public prosecutions undoubtedly has announced that he is standing for the leadership. He is highly-regarded by both left-wingers and centrists in the party. As Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary, he played a key role in the party’s eventual backing of a second referendum. Before becoming an MP, he was a human rights lawyer - conducting cases in international courts including the European Court of Human Rights.

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She's learnt very little from what happened to Corbyn and the reason why Labour's doomed.

Clown 🤡

Politicians with empty heads should be made to go and sit at the back and keep quiet while the grown ups talk.

Seems fair. But it’s not enough to solve the crisis

Just have a much higher tax rate on every building after peoples first home, you'll make renting far less profitable & housing will no longer be an investment with a high rate of return but something attainable for all as prices fall when people invest the capital elsewhere.

Stripped of their property...

She is a vile woman

Legalise squatting. Lots of empty dwellings would be on the market.

They haven't a clue

stripped ? I think you mean bought off at market price.

ET..........GO HOME!!........👆🚀

Along with commercial landlords. If the place hasn't been rented out by a certain time, they are fined $1000 a week! Remove their tax write offs.

ie Landlords are perfectly safe, as long as Labour keep spouting stuff like this. One day they might (again) realise that elections cannot be won so far from the centre. As a protest party, Labour will never have a say in anything. We’re stuck with the Tories...

Jesus... they've no idea about business have they? How about a program to assist council's in opening up all the homes they've boarded up and aren't doing up for new housing? not many like landlords but you can't take a property just because it's empty!

She is correct

Says the woman who buys social housing and rents it out for a profit.

She is playing to the momentum crowd.....her IQ matches Abbotts and she would have more success, I am sure, demolishing a full tray of Greggs apple strudel bakes. That will keep the vegans happy. She looks undernourished..

Yeah, because that'll solve the problem. Big words EmilyThornberry. Now go try to understand the actual issues at hand.

Just another reason to keep labour out

Aaahhh crossing the Marxist line again! 😞

Property rights anyone? Oi, that bloke isn't using his iPhone! Appropriate it! Someone needs that phone! What next? You are wasting food! You shouldn't be allowed to have food anymore! Nuts.

In a war food is rationed so under such a principle there should be penalties for those leaving spare homes empty. Having a second home should be seen as a privilege not a right in a society where there’s a housing crisis

Labour the dead party.....

One big problem with this. Councils wouldn't want these houses because they are generally in a poor state of repair and would need a lot spending on them before any rent was gained.

What a fkn stupid women. Just look how many MT homes there are on the market. If there weren’t any I’d need a cardboard box and a doorway. 🤡

Oh please. And she is supposed to be one of the'grown ups'?

How many homes are empty, where and how do they compare with area of high homelessness? Even without this proposal it is not worth being an landlord given the net yield of around 1%. The key is to get jobs for homelessness with at least a living wage.

Doesn’t EmilyThornberry remember the last European socialist government that confiscated homes and belongings from its citizens, simply because they had worked hard for these things, and were perceived to be “too wealthy”? We now know them as the Nazis....

RoodGridance Next up will be any money just sitting around in bank accounts, right?

All I’m saying is - we have a struggling pub trade and high street (sadly - blame online trade etc) convert the commercial properties to flats and houses and support the builders in doing so ... it isn’t rocket science. We cannot new build. We must convert ...

How long would the house have to be empty? Would this only affect a house with 100% equity? Would the government pay compensation on a CPO basis?

So what you are saying is we should strip people of a second house that has been in the family for years. And now I’m reaching for my gun

Which is fine if you feel the country will accept communism ...

The simple fact is the majority of unoccupied BTL homes have BTL mortgages on them so this is chutzpah. The landlords are paying interest only but not making any rent. You would need to break the banks unless you only hit 100% equity stock. It’s really communism she proposes.

ET.......GO HOME!!......👆🚀

She should give her properties , useless communist( only with the others money )

Whoooooa here now listen up you - just be factual and state how many empty homes are in the possession of local authorities before you attack private individuals. You really take the biscuit.

Yes, I agree. Fuck property.

Um no. Private property is not for use by the state.

taxed in a way to compose a fund helping homeless

So this means… - no new homes for rent will be built - another demographic lost to Labour - … Reminds me of the joke against Labour at an election: will the last one to leave turn the lights out! With today's labour the lights are apparently already out!

No.

She must have communist roots

EmilyThornberry my goodness, Ms Thornberry. Really? What would that solve? Why not ask prospective landlords to sign a legal statement saying they must ensure properties are occupied or, after a certain time, face fines. You can't take away possessions unless they have debts.

Just as long as she doesn’t strip 🙈

It's not a supply and demand problem. This doesn't get to the root cause of the issue. What a dick.

Sounds like Putin...

Kill the Kulaks!

Are politicians on a secret game to say the most stupid things?

Not going to get very far is she

How many home does Emily need? - shhhhh!

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