Unlike how the Left portrays them, most residential landlords are not wealthy executives and business owners. You will not find Simon Moutter or Mark Ford answering phone calls from their tenants abouut leaky toilets at 9pm on a Saturday night. They are too busy making heaps of money at their day jobs.
From my own observations, most Landlords and residential do-up traders work during the day at what would be regarded politically as routine minor functionary and possibly dead-end jobs, and regard their property activities as the only available way out of their current financial constraints and a chance to amass a nest-egg for their retirement years.
In other words these people, who the Left wish to penalise, would be generally regarded as traditional Labour Party voters.
This use to happen years ago - Labour would trumpet on about 'taxing the rich' when they next got back into power. Watersiders, railway tradesmen, school teachers and suchlike would therefore vote them back in only to find, to their horror, that they were the ones Labour hit with increased taxes.
From my own observations, most Landlords and residential do-up traders work during the day at what would be regarded politically as routine minor functionary and possibly dead-end jobs, and regard their property activities as the only available way out of their current financial constraints and a chance to amass a nest-egg for their retirement years.
In other words these people, who the Left wish to penalise, would be generally regarded as traditional Labour Party voters.
This use to happen years ago - Labour would trumpet on about 'taxing the rich' when they next got back into power. Watersiders, railway tradesmen, school teachers and suchlike would therefore vote them back in only to find, to their horror, that they were the ones Labour hit with increased taxes.
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