00:00Because I'm thinking, I watched some of the renters reform bill at the committee stage in the House of Lords.
00:05I thought, how is that going to affect you as a landlord?
00:09Will you be able to circumnavigate the need to deal with that?
00:13Or are you forced to keep the person in your house because you're not selling up?
00:17So landlords have been battered, Nana, many, many times over the last few years,
00:22both in terms of things like tax relief, particularly when it comes to now, yes,
00:27the Renter Rights Act, the Renter Reform Act, as it was under the Conservancy's,
00:31which effectively loads the deck in favour of tenants.
00:34So there's no such thing as a short shorthold tenancy terms anymore.
00:39We'll have to do as they're told when it comes to who they accept as a tenant.
00:44And of course, the rigmarole of trying to get bad tenants out will be extended,
00:49as will the fight through a very, very logjam court system to try and get tenants to pay arrears.
00:56So landlords are in a pretty bad place, really, actually,
01:00in terms of how they've been railed against by successive governments.
01:03So this latest news that now all of a sudden the government needs them, you know,
01:08so from having a pop at landlords consistently and continually to now all of a sudden needing them,
01:14it is quite ironic and pretty hypocritical of the government, I think,
01:19given how they've dealt with landlords.
01:20But to make a political point here, and as you know, Nana,
01:24I'm both a property guy and a political commentator,
01:28we shouldn't be in a position at all where landlords now,
01:32instead of giving their private rental properties,
01:36their tenancy stock to people from this country,
01:40particularly those that are on housing benefit,
01:42that have been born here and have been paid into the system,
01:45now we end up in a situation where, you know, there's a shortage of housing anyway.
01:50There is a housing crisis.
01:52And now we've got a government that, through sleight of hand,
01:55decides instead of filling up four-star hotels with illegal migrants,
02:00so-called asylum seekers, economic migrants, effectively,
02:03they're now going to encourage and entice landlords to house these people at great expense.
02:09Now, I accept that, actually, one of these properties is probably less than the cost of a hotel.
02:16Well, it's about ten times cheaper.
02:19Yes, but we shouldn't be having this debate at all.
02:21You know, we already this year have seen 10,000 illegal migrants
02:25come to the shores of this country on boats.
02:28Last year was 40,000.
02:30This year, we're way up on the same period last year.
02:33And clearly, the fact that the government are doing deals like this with landlords,
02:39trying to entice landlords and tie them in for, you know,
02:41five-year deals with the promise that the rent will be paid on time and so on,
02:46what does that tell us about Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's actual,
02:50real, truthful philosophy when it comes to wanting to smash the gangs?
02:55Because, of course, if they did want to smash the gangs,
02:57well, then they wouldn't be thinking for a second
03:00that they would need hundreds of thousands of landlord properties
03:04to house these illegal boat people.
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