Evict landlords campaign

I've just come across another nonsense campaign, this time Shelter are wanting to "Evict Rogue Landlords". (Catchy heh? See what they've done here, put the boot on the other foot.... clever....catchy.)

Even by Shelters own admittance "The Government says that tenants are happy with their experiences of private renting and the laws to protect them are working well."

However, that's not going to get in their way and they've managed to concoct some bizarre statistical evidence pointing to a mass of awful rogue landlords preying on tenants.

According to their research the majority of environmental health officers working with tenants have encountered some rubbish landlords.

Never! Seriously! I cant believe it! So people working all day in the private rental sector have encountered a landlord who doesn't live up to expectations. What a shocker!

This comes in stark contrast to the worlds of teaching and nursing or dare I say housing officers or environmental health officers where they are incredibly hard working efficient professionals not out to take advantage of their tax payer funded position of responsibility.

Time to get real

Ask anyone in education if they have ever met a lazy, un-professional teacher and the answer would be "yes, every hour of my working day", ask anyone working in health if they'd met a incompetent nurse and they'd probably point over to one standing by the vending machine and as for council staff lets face it the majority of them are lazy time servers who are there for the pension and flexi-time and the ability to get away with doing as little as possible which is why they ended up there in the first place ( this description is built from the observations of every friend who has ever worked or still works for a council) .

We all know that the teaching profession has thousands of incompetent, lazy and therefore harmful teachers that are impacting on our childrens education and yet I read an article reporting that just a handful of teachers had lost their jobs over the past 5 years.

We all know that neglect and abuse is endemic within the NHS but how many nurses are sacked for chatting for hours at the coffee machine with their second Twix of the day stuffed in their mouth?

Let's face it landlords are an easy target, so if it makes you feel any better..... whinge on!

But the truth is the private residential sector is a highly competitive and price sensitive market that unlike the state monopolies brings value for money for the consumer, otherwise the market is free to vote with it's feet.

We are happy to admit that not all landlords are perfect but it also seems that they are an easy target that can be pelted like a peasant in the stocks to make society feel better, a defenceless individual derided by the group looking to off load blame.

But maybe this country has bigger fish to fry but the reality is these are the protected, untouchables that Governments and agency are scared to look at. These are the masses the union protected time servers, the wastrels and the incompetents in public service.

How about a campaign "Expel bad teachers" or "Cure sick nurses" or "Get rid of half the council work force without losing the quality of service because lets face most of them have very little to do because Labour has flooded councils with endless doughnuts who would of been on the dole otherwise but at least it keeps them off the streets and makes them feel that that university course was worth doing ........for now."

Maybe I need to work on that last one - it's maybe not catchy enough......

Feel free to go to Shelters Evict a Landlord campaign