A rant about rent controls by London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan appears to have backfired.
Khan - who has repeatedly demanded that the government grant him the power to impose rent controls - took to Twitter to retweet a message from the London Renters Union.
Khan added to the message by tweeting: “Times are incredibly tough. The last thing Londoners need is the constant threat of losing their home due to skyrocketing rents. I will not stop calling on the Govt to do the right thing and grant me the powers to freeze London rents.”
But of the hundreds of comments left below his tweet, very few echoed his remarks.
Instead the overwhelming majority were critical of Khan’s postures on both rent controls and his so-called ULEZ scheme.
ULEZ is the Ultra Low Emission Zone which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year, except Christmas Day.
The zone currently covers all areas within the North and South Circular Roads but Khan is proposing a dramatic expansion of the ULEZ zone, which has prompted vast numbers of complaints from the public.
Those complaints dominated the comments at the end of Khan’s rent control tweet, and many of the comments that were about housing were actually opposed to his call for caps.
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Control rents 'cos times are tough... (yes for the mortgage payer too) then slap a £250 a month tax on poor folk who happen to have a diesel vehicle. What a complete hypocritical tw*t.
Why is he still in a job wasting billions he has already extended ULEZ out to North Circular Road adding £12.50 pd to people who needs their car or van for work then added a premium to parking Hammersmith £6. ph its a bad joke.
Hundreds of Roads have been resurfaced in London under his watch with Sub-Standard Asphalt in only the last 4 or 5 years now crumbling away and pot holes everywhere back to original surface which last 30 to 50 years. Notwithstanding they have imposed a 20 MPH speed limit Restriction in London and even that didn’t stop the Roads ravelling away. It’s a disgrace he is not fit to be Mayor wasting billions of public funds. Yes times are tough and made much worse directly by having him as Mayor.
Ouch 🤕 London does not sound very appealing 👎🏻.
He is on a mission to completely ruin London. This is his way on contributing to ‘levelling up’ by ‘levelling down’
I am old enough to remember rent controls and still manage and sell (sold one last week), some of the remnants of the pre January 1989 Regulated Tenancies/Sitting Tenants. The truth -rents were low and the quality of the property was low. Over the years the rent officers who determine the rent increases have, following legislation, moved the rents up nearer market rents. The added burden to landlords for letting has already removed stock from the market, talk of further legislation and rent controls do the opposite of creating more stock and thus reduce stock and rents increase! Poor old Mr Khan, seems he is against everyone, I hope that the Conservatives are able to put up a strong and middle ground candidate who if elected would be able to help all.
9 MONTHS to ONE YEAR for a Possession Process
(appears all tenants are given 5 months more, to appeal, if they ask)
COURT SAYS IT AIMS TO OPEN AN EMAIL
OR LETTER WITHIN 80 DAYS
(delay increasing)
GET OUT : BEFORE THEY REALLY START TO HURT LANDLORDS
DON'T MOAN LATER... 'THE WRITING WASN'T ON THE WALL'
The mad Scots woman has gone, hopefully the khan will be next. We don't visit London very often now, it has become unsafe and unattractive since this idiot was elected mayor!
This is what London has become under Labour. Imagine how bad and worse off the COUNTRY would be if Labour get in to power.
We need the old Tory party back. Not this current useless left leaning bunch.
I totally agree. Like Labour, they have turned into a Party that appeases the minority, too weak to speak out, in their present form, a thoroughly nasty party.
Exactly. Appeasing the minority. What is that all about? None of these people seem willing to want to govern for the majority at all. 🤷♂️
And this is the reason landlords are getting hit in every direction…
Can’t we just debate and push back on what the article was originally about? It was about a rent freeze not about extending the ULEZ.
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