A 100% grassroots campaign fighting for the liberty of the 5.3 million leasehold households. Fighting for enfranchisement and a mass shift to commonhold.
🥊LABOUR, DON’T YOU DARE!🥊
In the July King’s Speech, you promised to “act quickly” to switch on LAFRA 2024. You’ve done nothing.
You promised a draft Commonhold Bill this year, to end leasehold and fleecehold for good. You’ve produced nothing. (1/5)
🐷EXPOSING THE GROUND RENT GRAZERS🐷
This one’s for
@BimAfolami
,
@RishiSunak
,
@michaelgove
,
@Lee4NED
and
@mtpennycook
.
In a general election year, it is crucial to debunk the sector spin of the ‘ruined granny’ and show who is really behind the protection racket of ground rent.
AN HISTORY FIRST - BRITISH PM CONFIRMS END OF FEUDAL LEASEHOLD
Wow.
@Keir_Starmer
at PMQs confirms his Labour govt WILL abolish leasehold. Thanks
@LukeMLabour
.
Leaseholders need speedy activation of LAFRA and publication of the promised draft Bill. 2025/26 is too long to wait!
.
@RishiSunak
@michaelgove
@Lee4NED
, a man’s wife dies. He forgets to pay his £250 ground rent and, three weeks later, the freeholder comes for his home.
Eddie could lose the lot with no compensation.
You cannot credibly reform leasehold WITHOUT getting rid of forfeiture. (1/2)
.
@LibDems
PROMISE END TO LEASEHOLD IN THEIR MANIFESTO
The Liberal Democrats have come good for leaseholders, promising to free us from our feudal servitude.
There is also a pledge to cap ground rents to a nominal fee, so that should be a peppercorn.
💥DRAFT LEASEHOLD AND COMMONHOLD REFORM BILL IN KING’S SPEECH💥
An end of history moment for residential leasehold tenure in the King’s Speech today.
New
@UKLabour
government commits to:
1) Speedy implementation of LAFRA, ending speculation from the sector and giving greater
👶🏻“CAN YOU LET US HAVE THE BABY?”👶🏻
This was the most upsetting video for us to make.
If the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill really is the “biggest reform in a generation”, how can Forfeiture abolition be omitted?
@RishiSunak
@michaelgove
@Lee4NED
(1/2)
.
@RishiSunak
WILL REGRET STABBING 10 MILLION LEASEHOLDERS IN THE BACK
Peppercorn ground rents yet another 2019 manifesto commitment reneged on.
Today’s
@Conservatives
put donors ahead of homeowners. Sick.
@Kwajotweneboa
Great work,
@Kwajotweneboa
!
Buyers have more rights buying a toaster than they do buying a new-build home.
Developers are not held wholly liable for what they make.
This must change if
@UKLabour
want to avoid turbocharging the housing crisis.
@dannybster
@wharfgirl
🌹 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗🌹
“Labour will act where the Conservatives failed and finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end.”
@UKLabour
pledging the change leaseholders need.
💪SAVE THE BILL: THE FINAL ACT💪
A miracle was pulled off yesterday. You made them listen!
An inadequate Bill, but it gives relief to some leaseholders and for that, we must be grateful. The first major law on tenure reform in 22 yrs.
The fight to
#FreeLeaseholders
continues.
🥩
@ShaunBaileyUK
URGES GOVT BEEFS UP THE BILL🥩
One of the most refreshing and authentic interventions on leasehold the Lords heard today.
Lord Bailey does an epic takedown of the “gangster-like power” of Forfeiture.
Homeownership means liberty.
🥊BRILLIANT PACKAGE BY
@Tarahwelsh
@BBCLondonNews
TONIGHT🥊
Service charge strikes are a symptom of a broken market. If freeholders and building-landlords weren’t rent-seekers, people wouldn’t do it.
Let leaseholders take control of their service providers and service charges!
First day back at Parliament and ministers have been quizzed on leasehold/fleecehold. Millions of affected households are desperate for delivery of the
@UKLabour
manifesto pledges. Labour must set out timescales for LAFRA activation and bringing forward of draft Commonhold Bill.
Massive thanks to
@Roolockwood
@TalkTV
for covering the leasehold scandal. 49% of leaseholders are first-time buyers.
@joedouglas90
bought his first home only to be preyed upon by a corporate freeholder. The
@RFAssociation
refused to show up and debate leaseholder champions!
According to an
@OpiniumResearch
poll this month:
💥62% of people aged 65+ want leasehold scrapped
💥65% want all ground rents gone
👴In response, we launch a new campaign group,
#PensionersAgainstLeasehold
👵
To “PAL” up, contact pensioners
@freeleaseholders
.org.uk today.
@AngelaRayner
@michaelgove
Thank you
@AngelaRayner
for having our back.
10 million leaseholders are looking to
@UKLabour
for liberation from an unjust system that keeps us as serfs to rent-seekers, middlemen and extortionists.
Please ensure radical leasehold and commonhold reform is in the manifesto.
💣FOI WARS💣
The fight goes on for the peppercorn ground rents they promised us.
Still no evidence for the “ruined pensions” line.
So, why have
@hmtreasury
reportedly caved and forced
@michaelgove
to drop the policy?
Leaseholders have a right to know. (1/4)
@danbarker
@HarryScoffin
Your mind will blow when you find out that a £350,000 flat can be lost — all equity — on a bill as trivial as £350. Leasehold forfeiture is the weapon of extortionists and must be abolished.
👶🏻“CAN YOU LET US HAVE THE BABY?”👶🏻
This was the most upsetting video for us to make.
If the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill really is the “biggest reform in a generation”, how can Forfeiture abolition be omitted?
@RishiSunak
@michaelgove
@Lee4NED
(1/2)
“THEY HAVE TURNED ME INTO A WAGE SLAVE”
People like
@richard_jm
are why we do this.
We are campaigning for the next Government to bring in a Commonhold Bill in their first King’s Speech.
Richard’s MP,
@LabourSJ
- please, you must fight to make this happen.
.
@LibDems
come out to bat for leaseholders again.
Their party is committed to abolishing leasehold altogether via a mass shift to commonhold.
The more leasehold is in the media, the more we will be hearing from them.
Leaseholders, keep sharing your stories!
.
@RishiSunak
IS NOT VERY GOOD AT POLITICS, IS HE?
Betraying millions of leaseholders to protect sharks and spivs has now united
@UKLabour
and
@reformparty_uk
in outrage. They pledge leaseholder liberation.
The politics of leasehold just got a hell of a lot more interesting!
“On this site alone in Liverpool, they’re building 185 apartments and 10 townhouses.”
These are 185 *LEASEHOLD* apartments.
More unsuspecting homebuyers lured into serfdom contracts. This is no way to solve the housing crisis.
Service charges ballooned to £7.6 billion last year yet the outgoing Tory Government decriminalised service charge abuse!
The next administration must withstand the vested interests and enact mass commonhold, removing 3rd party freeloaders from our homes.
Fake news that pension funds are exposed to resi ground rents.
Number 10 and Treasury have allowed themselves to become a megaphone for rent-seekers, middlemen and extortionists.
This shames our democracy.
@Conservatives
need to listen to voters, not donors and lobbyists.
'There are some very powerful people who have managed to pump this fake news into No 10.'
@HarryScoffin
tells
@TomSwarbrick1
that the government referring to 'buy to let landlords who happen to be elderly' as 'pensioners' is 'very wilful distortion'.
“This week rumour has it, the Labour Manifesto will be finalised. If it fails to contain a bill abolishing residential leasehold and bring in commonhold, there will be 5 million angry leaseholders who want to know why.”
#FreeLeaseholders
📢LEASEHOLDERS! SICK OF BEING A SERF?📢
We’ve launched a crowdfunder for our campaign to end the leasehold housing scam. Billionaires are spending millions of pounds on fancy PR and lobby firms to keep their gravy train going.
Don’t let them win! (1/4)
This stinks!
The Ministerial Code could not be clearer: “Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise.”
Whose side are you on,
@Jeremy_Hunt
?
EXC: Landlord Jeremy Hunt has u-turned sitting out decisions on ground rents, The Sun can reveal. In Nov '23 Hunt recused himself from leasehold reform discussions. But now he's quietly re-joined negotiations, sparking a "conflict of interest" row
🙏48 HOURS TO SAVE THE BILL - LEASEHOLDERS UNITE🙏
We believe in miracles. And we really need one.
If you need to see the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill rammed through onto the statute books before the GE, email your MP now.
More years in limbo otherwise.
🌹
@UKLabour
TO COME OUT FOR AN END TO “FEUDAL” LEASEHOLD SYSTEM, BBC REPORTS🌹
This morning, the
@LibDems
put in their manifesto a pledge to *abolish* residential leaseholds.
Tonight,
@faisalislam
suggests that
@UKLabour
will feature the policy in their manifesto on Thursday.
.
@UKLabour
has an unequivocal mandate for change, which millions of leaseholders have voted for. Breaking down barriers to opportunities and wealth creation sit at the heart of their manifesto. We stand ready to work with the new government to end feudalism.
LOCAL AUTHORITY LEASEHOLDERS WON’T BE FORGOTTEN VOWS
@RachelReevesMP
Vital Q from
@e_casalicchio
at the Chancellor’s 1st major speech.
When
@UKLabour
were last in gov, local authority leaseholders were excluded from many reforms.
New Bill needed in King’s Speech on July 17th!
If the
@Conservatives
cannot find it in themselves to ram through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill in the wash-up, leaseholders’ lives will still be in limbo with no guarantee from
@UKLabour
as to when they will legislate. Today is a bleak day for the movement.
Isn’t it funny that not a single pension fund, insurer or trade body will go on record to stack up this figure being peddled by the
@RFAssociation
?
Brace yourself for more BS on peppercorns this weekend.
Exclusive: Pension funds believe Michael Gove’s proposed reforms of Britain’s “feudal” leasehold system will cost them in the region of £30bn if he proceeds next week with a £250 cap on ground rents and 20-year transition to peppercorn rates.
.
@michaelgove
gets it. Leasehold reform may be “complicated”. But, in reality, it’s very easy. A simple moral decision must be made by Govt. Does it side with voters, homeowners & aspirant homeowners? Or does it side with greedy rent-seekers & middle men?
🚨leaseholders🚨
I’m honestly too furious to write coherent tweets on this right now but you can read for yourself.
Their response:
£5729.77 to be paid within 10 days or I’m taken to court & my flat is forfeited.
No direct reply to my email querying the service charge.
🌹THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR LEASEHOLDERS AND ASPIRING HOMEOWNERS🌹
The likely next government is going to hit the ground running with a new leasehold and commonhold reform Bill in the King’s Speech on July 17th, according to this Sunday Times report.
The freeholder lobby descends into farce yet again.
In a letter to the Sunday Times today, a developer who presided over the death of a worker and failed to pay a massive fine writes about morality.
Is this the best they can do?!
.
@UKLabour
𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗗𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗘𝗨𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗, 𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗦
Exceedingly positive news.
A leasehold flats ban expected and action on ground rent.
We are so pumped for the manifesto launch!
👑KING’S SPEECH TO INCLUDE “OFF THE SHELF” LEGISLATION, FT REPORTS👑
There were tonnes of amendments scuppered by the wash-up. Ground rent cap, forfeiture abolition, commonhold fixes and more ready to roll!
Seize the moment.
@AngelaRayner
@mtpennycook
🚧STOP LOOTING LEASEHOLDERS🚧
Toxic ground rent clauses are trapping too many people in their homes.
Service charge gouging continues. Forfeiture, the invisible whip against leaseholders, must go.
Action on ground rent and forfeiture must be delivered in a Bill on Wednesday.
The King’s Speech this week will set out my government’s ambitious agenda to create wealth across the UK.
We are hitting the ground running by bringing forward the laws we need to rebuild our country for the long-term.
There is no time to waste. The work of change begins now.
🙏FOR RISHI - LEASEHOLD BANK HOLIDAY DIARY🙏
@RishiSunak
, you talk about giving families security.
Do that today by improving your Leasehold Bill.
Honour the 2019 manifesto: no more leasehold homes. Share of freehold will do!
Don’t take our word for it - see
@BarclaysUK
.
✊WHY LEASEHOLDERS NEED A BILL IN THE KING’S SPEECH NEXT WEEK✊
Heartbreaking story of a leaseholder forced to foodbanks. Forfeiture on its way.
Most of the policy and drafting work has been done by
@mhclg
and
@Law_Commission
officials.
@UKLabour
must deliver on the 17th.
Email this arvo demanding arrears be paid within 14 days! I have NO money as they've taken it all, maxed out credit cards I can't pay, no help, don't know what to do anymore!? My life is in ruins, my health wrecked & I've sold everything worth any money!!
There'll be forfeiture
Up to 10 million leaseholders will watch proceedings in the unelected House of Lords tomorrow.
The
@Conservatives
have a choice: are they the party of donors, or homeowners?
Leasehold reform is being fought over by various parties. No one owns it yet. Fight for our votes!
Tomorrow is a BIG day for leaseholders.
The unelected House of Lords show their cards.
The Lords have historically neutered leasehold reform.
This time, voters will be unforgiving to any Party that allows unelected Lords to thwart meaningful change.
Millions want this.
Awful headlines today. No wonder
@michaelgove
quit!
@RishiSunak
@Jeremy_Hunt
@BimAfolami
all have serious questions to answer. Their behaviours undermined the legislation. They must be punished.
Leasehold reforms become law without ground rent cap
Major blow to the freeholder lobby who have sought to divide and rule flat leaseholders between those under private and local authority landlords.
With
@UKLabour
, all freeholder landlords will be equal under the law.
The big test is just next week. The King’s Speech, 17th July.
LOCAL AUTHORITY LEASEHOLDERS WON’T BE FORGOTTEN VOWS
@RachelReevesMP
Vital Q from
@e_casalicchio
at the Chancellor’s 1st major speech.
When
@UKLabour
were last in gov, local authority leaseholders were excluded from many reforms.
New Bill needed in King’s Speech on July 17th!
Yesterday, we spoke to
@robblackie
, the
@LibDems
London mayoral candidate, about the leasehold scandal in the capital.
He told us about his plans for Londoner leaseholders and highlighted his party’s national policy to abolish leasehold for commonhold. Video coming soon!
These proposals are not perfect.
But an immediate £250 cap on ground rents and a phase-out is a compromise leaseholders should be able to live with.
However, we will hold back full judgement until the formal announcement is made and the details are published.
Exclusive: In face of intensive lobbying by pension/insurance funds, Gove has won partial victory on leasehold reform
PM has now overruled HMT. £250 cap on ground rents will be announced, with a 20 year* transition period to peppercorn
1/4
.
@Lee4NED
@michaelgove
Why aren’t you abolishing forfeiture, an extortion tool, in this Leasehold and Freehold Bill?
Forfeiture is for gangsters, not noble custodians.
The
@Law_Commission
has already done work on forfeiture for government! No excuses.
1/ Today I received a letter from managing agent saying I’m in breach of my lease & they are starting proceedings to take my flat away from me.
For not paying a £5500 bill. On a flat I was sold where I was told it would be £600 per year. Less than 2 years ago.
And your record on leasehold is disappointing.
Your government isn’t honouring its promise - to move “quickly” to switch on the provisions of legislation passed by the last one!
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 is a test of your governing competence & trustworthiness.
.
@AngelaRayner
CONFIRMS AN END TO LEASEHOLD
@alistrathern
is fighting for Hitchin residents and leaseholders everywhere.
He’s up against
@BimAfolami
, a regressive force on ground rent reform in
@hmtreasury
.
If elected,
@UKLabour
must act with their first King’s Speech.
After 14 years of chaos, leaseholders need so much more than what the Tories have offered.
It was great to be joined by
@AngelaRayner
in Lower Stondon yesterday, to talk about how Labour would help leaseholders in our area.
Thank you
@AngelaRayner
for having our back.
10 million leaseholders are looking to
@UKLabour
for liberation from an unjust system that keeps us as serfs to rent-seekers, middlemen and extortionists.
Please ensure radical leasehold and commonhold reform is in the manifesto.
This latest dithering from the Government on leasehold reform in the face of Tory infighting is yet another sign that Rishi Sunak is too weak to deliver for working people.
Over to you
@michaelgove
.
@TiceRichard
@reformparty_uk
have been allies of leaseholders for a number of years now.
When the Tory government were going to bankrupt leaseholders over dangerous cladding, Mr Tice called a press conference to put forward a package of reforms that helped force a u-turn.
Leaseholders up and down the land are in abusive relationships with freeholders who use coercive control tactics, including gaslighting and the plundering of finances.
Service charge strikes exist because leaseholders are captive. They cannot hire and fire rip-off providers.
👑🌹THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER FOR LEASEHOLDERS👑🌹
The King’s Speech is a huge moment for the new
@UKLabour
government.
Millions are expecting liberation from a new administration far more willing to take on the vested interests.
Here’s our take!
🐷EXPOSING THE GROUND RENT GRAZERS🐷
This one’s for
@BimAfolami
,
@RishiSunak
,
@michaelgove
,
@Lee4NED
and
@mtpennycook
.
In a general election year, it is crucial to debunk the sector spin of the ‘ruined granny’ and show who is really behind the protection racket of ground rent.
We look forward to seeing this but leaseholders are innocent and should not be expected to pay for state failure and industry malfeasance. This government cannot repeat or slightly tweak the Tory approach, which was not working.
Deputy PM
@AngelaRayner
tells
@GMB
that it is unacceptable that so many buildings identified to have unsafe cladding haven't had remediation work started. That is why she has announced she will bring forward a remediation acceleration plan this autumn.
🌹DAY 1, LABOUR CONFERENCE🌹
Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary makes her Opening Speech to Labour Party Conference.
@AngelaRayner
pledges to FREE leaseholders.
Get in!
⛓️💥NO MORE LEASEHOLD PRISONERS⛓️💥
In 2019, the
@Conservatives
promised in their manifesto no more new leasehold homes.
Now, their Bill will allow developers to keep selling leasehold debt traps.
We say: If no Commonhold on new flats, at least require Share of Freehold.
Freeloading freeholders, quake in your boots! We are digging in and scaling up thanks to the wonderful support of the world-class team of campaigns specialists, comms experts and social change advocates at
@BrktrhImpact
’s Accelerator programme. A real coup to secure this backing.
🚀 – We're delighted to announce the four campaigns that we'll be supporting on our 2024-25 Accelerator programme:
1⃣ Delivering Better
2⃣
@FreeLeasehlders
3⃣
@OpenJustice4All
4⃣
@RegulariseUK
Find out more here ▶️
.
@michaelgove
SAYS “THERE ARE VESTED INTERESTS WITH DEEP POCKETS” TRYING TO TORPEDO LEASEHOLD LAW CHANGE
The leasehold scandal asks who our democracy is for.
We shall know soon enough when the final government amendments to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill emerge.
.
@KemiBadenoch
, why are you blocking the will of the people?
Peppercorn ground rents was a 2019
@Conservatives
manifesto commitment.
Tell the truth! Why are you against it?
Have you spoken to
@PagefieldLondon
and
@RFAssociation
? Leaseholders don’t get this access.
MAKING THE PROPERTY-OWNING DEMOCRACY REAL
@ShaunBaileyUK
has been the Tory terminator in the Lords.
He has been relentless in his drive to beef up the Bill.
Ultimately, he will not stop until leasehold is terminated.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Conservative voters overwhelmingly back peppercorn ground rents.
@BobBlackman
calls on Number 10 and Treasury to honour the policy, recognising it as a cost of living issue.
Sunak and Hunt are playing with electoral fire.
New: Tory voters overwhelmingly back abolishing ground rents
@OpiniumResearch
polling found 64 per cent of Tory voters want them scrapped
The news comes as the Leasehold Reform Bill is set to be watered down 👇
👑NEW BILL FOR LEASEHOLDERS TOMORROW?👑
A lot of the work has been done with tonnes of government amendments that were to come forward, including capping ground rent, abolishing forfeiture and “commonhold fixes”.
Leaseholders need out of this purgatory.
We have just had a £250 donation! Thank you to all who have contributed already.
Love what we do to raise awareness of the leasehold scandal and boost moral among leaseholders? Donate a tenner today.
🤯LEASEHOLD DESTROYING LONDONER LIVES🤯
65% of leaseholders - over 900,000 households - say they cannot afford their ground rent and service charges, finds
@Barclays
.
This issue was shamefully absent from the mayoral campaigns of the frontrunners.
Fantastic to see
@MarshadeCordova
, the
@UKLabour
prospective parliamentary candidate for Battersea, putting leasehold abolition front and centre of her re-election campaign.
We need the first session of the next Parliament to include a Bill to end the scandal for good.
The Tories have failed to tackle the housing crisis.
A Labour government will:
✅ End the outdated leasehold system.
🚫 Ban S.21 no fault evictions.
🏡 Build 1.5 million homes including the biggest increase in social housing in a generation.
Vote Labour on 4th July 🌹
Depressing data. Toxic leasehold tenure is a housing crisis in itself. This from
@Hamptons1869
reinforces why we need speedy activation of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 and the bringing forward of the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill, as per the King’s Speech.
Flat prices across England & Wales have been stagnating since 2015/16 and we estimate this has prevented around 400,000 flat owners from moving home. (1/5) 🧵
The
@RFAssociation
have just deleted an embarrassing bit of information from their website that illustrates the pointlessness of freeholders.
If freeholders only own 2.5% in blocks of flats, why do we need them? Why we call them rent-seekers. Donate now!
It is a repugnant industry you are in. Literally buying up the ground beneath people’s homes to make unlimited cash off their sanctuary. Residential leasehold will be dismantled and it is all closing in on your ilk now. That’s why you have returned to Twitter after a long hiatus.
🚨
@UKLabour
drops
@lisanandy
pledge for radical leasehold legislation in first 100 days🚨
Shocking news from
@e_casalicchio
Playbook briefing.
No guarantee leasehold and commonhold reform will be in the
@UKLabour
manifesto either.
Where do we go now?
“The leasehold system, another of Starmer’s targets for reform, is an off-putting anachronism — making the ‘owner’ of a flat really just a different sort of tenant to a ‘freeholder’, an arrangement fraught with opportunities for abuse.”
🔫🔪🩸😈🤵💵⛓️💀 LEASEHOLD IS LIKE LIVING UNDER A CARTEL SAYS LEASEHOLDER PAYING CRIPPLING SERVICE CHARGES 🔫🔪🩸😈🤵💵⛓️💀
Last week, one of our supporters spoke to 5 Live Drive.
She fears the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill doesn’t go far enough.
Let’s keep fighting!
LOUIS AND DANI FORFEITURE STORY IN THE BBC TODAY
Pressure builds on government to scrap forfeiture.
We say it is obscene that someone can lose a home worth £350,000 on a debt as small as £350. No balancing payment.
Forfeiture is for extortionists.
✊The
@Conservatives
government must defend leaseholders’ rights✊
Leaseholders’ human rights must trump those of rent-seekers, middlemen and extortionists.
Big Freeholders think they should have the right to rip off people in perpetuity. Enough!
😂YOU’VE GOT TO BE HAVING A LAUGH😂
Extraordinary to see this today. The leasehold industry haven’t got the memo. They are still trading our homes as cash machines for investors!
They ignore the 2024 Act at their peril. And the upcoming Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill.
Superb to see
@mtpennycook
has moved an amendment to abolish forfeiture. It is draconian and has no place in a modern housing market. It treats leaseholders as borderline criminals and gives a windfall to freeholders. One of our key asks when we launched.
More home truths on leasehold from the
@Telegraph
.
@charlottelytton
lays blame with the Tory govt and points out that the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill relies on an inadequate tribunal system easily gamed by freeholders and their army of lawyers.
We are in
@insidehousing
today, giving the Labour case for ending leasehold tomorrow and pushing back against the freeholder lobby’s new moves.
“From Big Oil to tobacco, legacy industries always seek to throw sand in the gears of policymakers.”
IT’S UNRAVELLING NOW FOR
@hmtreasury
AND
@Jeremy_Hunt
🍨 from
@e_casalicchio
in Playbook tonight.
Weeks after recusing himself from ground rent reform, our Chancellor still made time to meet ground rent harvesters to discuss, yep, ground rent reform.
Before the Public Bill Committee closed on February 1st,
@ThePLSA
submitted a letter to MPs seeking to trivialise the significance of their September 2023 statement to us and to delegitimise leasehold campaigners. Here is our open letter to the Chief Executive. (1/2)
.
@danielmgmoylan
COMES OUT SWINGING FOR RTM
Lord Moylan’s block was one of the first in the country to take advantage of RTM.
He’s totally right to support leaseholder control.
RTM is better than external freeholders running around spending leaseholders’ money.
🥩BOOM! FORMER NO10 AIDE BARONESS FINN CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO BEEF UP THE BILL🥩
She notes
@BorisJohnson
committed in the 2019
@Conservatives
manifesto to banning all new leasehold homes, not just houses.
She urges action on forfeiture, participation thresholds and commonhold.
💸 It is not just offshore freeloaders 💸
If England’s local councils are shafting flat owners with opaque, padded and even fictitious service charges, we know it is the leasehold system which needs binning.
This isn’t about a few rogues or bad apples.
Well done,
@MattLismore
!
🚨WHAT IS THE POINT OF VOTING?🚨
In 2019, 13.9 million people voted for a
@Conservatives
manifesto that pledged to restrict ground rents to a peppercorn.
If
@RishiSunak
stabs leaseholders in the back by allowing Big Freeholders to strong-arm the Treasury, is democracy dead?
🌪️ IN PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ...
🫀 All the stuff that happened in Westminster today ... plus reporting from Berlin via
@Stefan_Boscia
☄️ Oh and ... a revelation (for some) about the infamous DD for me pic.
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The tyranny of leasehold is destroying lives.
The last govt had us wait 7 years before the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, which we had to plead for when the election was called.
Don’t treat us like them.
Activate LAFRA and bring forward the draft Bill before Xmas.
The Tories shattered the dream of a secure home and left a housing emergency in their wake.
This Labour Government is fixing the foundations. Change has begun.
#Lab24
“There’s still time for the prime minister to do the decent thing and secure the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill in the wash-up. Otherwise, the only question remaining is when will Labour liberate the 5.3m households from their feudal burden.”
🚨PROJECT FEAR UPDATE🚨
Big Freeholders are becoming increasingly hysterical and unhinged in a last bid attempt to scupper ground rent reform.
These ads are being displayed across the political blogosphere.
Ministers and journalists must not fall for this fake news.
📢IMPACT OF GROUND RENT REFORM ON PENSION FUNDS OVERSTATED📢
Superb intervention by
@TheSPP1
.
They are pushing back against freeholder lobby scaremongering that pension funds will be destroyed by a ground rent cap.
@hmtreasury
should listen to them.
.
@mtpennycook
gets it.
We don’t need more fiddling with leasehold.
The only way to deal with the scandal is to end the exploitative and discriminatory tenure.
We look forward to seeing the
@UKLabour
manifesto.
Ending service charge abuse ultimately requires bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end.
The Tories have failed to honour the promises they made to millions of leaseholders.
A Labour government will deliver where they have failed.
💪🏻RESPECTED BUSINESS JOURNALIST COMES OUT FOR PEPPERCORN GROUND RENTS💪🏻
@spectator
business editor Martin Vander Weyer sees through freeholder lobby line on pension funds. Asks whether Number 10 and Treasury are worried more about donors than homeowners.
“The Tories have also failed to enact their pledge to abolish the leasehold system, meaning that millions who do manage to get on the housing ladder become trapped in properties that become eye-watering resource sinks they may struggle to sell on.”
Peppercorn ground rents after all?
Leasehold is an emotional rollercoaster.
But this looks like some positive news to start the Bank holiday weekend. Thanks
@redditchrachel
.
We reserve our judgment until the full announcement is made.