[The Weeping Angel]

Jess Barnard, a former chair of Young Labour and a member of Labour’s NEC, said: “Seems an appropriate time to reiterate MPs should not be landlords, and landlords should not be Labour MPs.”

Why is this being quoted as serious commentary? Private rental has always existed, and there's no way it can't exist. This is Wolfie Smith standard stuff.

Did Rushanara evict or did she just terminate a lease in a normal way?

That's nothing.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Quite the cunts in the comments.

[davidjay]

"Labour MPs shouldn't be landlords."

I can remember when Labour members shouldn't buy their council houses.

[Youngian]

Paying mortgages on expenses has been a longstanding MP's perk. Which may explain why they're not as stern about curbing house price inflation as they are with every other commodity.

[Tubby Isaacs]

She didn't evict them, did she?

They'll go for shit like this because it's easier than policy. As it happens, Rushanara became an MP at 35. Which is younger than Corbyn,

[Tubby Isaacs]

Paying mortgages on expenses has been a longstanding MP's perk. Which may explain why they're not as stern about curbing house price inflation as they are with every other commodity.

This Government has tried to get a lot more houses built, in fairness. Others have tried (Cameron, Johnson) but got buried under a pile of shit by their own side. I'm encouraged by the Government taking the whip of Chris Hinchcliff (who is like having the CPRE in Parliament), hope that they haven't conceded too much.

[The Weeping Angel]

She didn't evict them, did she?

They'll go for shit like this because it's easier than policy. As it happens, Rushanara became an MP at 35. Which is younger than Corbyn,

He's not pro-Corbyn his politics are a hodgepodge, pro-working class, very big on welfare but also supportive of Brexit and keen to get more working-class MPs into Parliament. His real name is David Littlefair.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting. Of course, Adrian Ramsey hasn't done anything wrong, but in the current climate he'll be lucky to avoid pitchforks at his next party meeting. He doesn't help himself with this silly explanation- do the tenants really only pay for the interest on the mortgage and wear and tear? I read that and think I don't want him anywhere near any political office that involves raising or spending money.

[Youngian]

It's like Hugh Abbot's Notting Hill Gate gate. 'I have a flat, I haven't killed anyone.'

[Tubby Isaacs]

He'll probably have to sell it now, because of the pitchfork mob. Ironically, Shelter's preferred model for private rental is a lease for five years, with increases around the level of inflation. He seems a nice sort of bloke, and he'd have probably done something like that.

Talking of renting out below market rate, isn't that what Rushanara Ali did until recently? Didn't do her any good. Perhaps her mistake was not charging full whack year ago.

[The Weeping Angel]

When it comes to landlords, we could pass an act regulating their behavior and upgrading the rights of tenants, or we could disqualify anyone from politics who is a landlord.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I've heard that MPs have a vested interest as landlords. Strangely the argument is less often made that MPs who own homes and bang on about nature and the unique character of everywhere anyone wants to build have their own vested interest.