I got this as I came out of an encouraging meeting yesterday afternoon. My heart went from gentle warmth to burning pension when I read my WhatsApp feed.
To my great disappointment, I am attending a friend’s funeral when Harry is speaking to a select committee, but he needs no one to support him, he is a young, brave and intelligent man who is fighting for all us leaseholders whose p/l and balance sheet are depressed by our treatment by managing agents and by the pernicious system of ground rent. Put another way – leaseholders are seeing their bank accounts raided to pay unnecessary bills and their property falling in value as people walk away from buying leasehold flats.
Harry’s session with is immediately prior to a session with two campaigning MPs who I admire. Angela Rayner was a shadow pension minister and has always understood the needs of ordinary people. Gove has stood out for leaseholders for many years and is a worthy partner of Rayner. They could and should get press coverage.
Labour’s defeat at the Manchester bye-election further weakens the already embattled prime minister, with many of Starmer’s MPs looking over their shoulders at a potential Green challenge.
Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister who is regarded as a future challenger to Starmer, said the result “must be a wake up call”, adding that the government had to “be braver”.
In the opinion of Harry Scoffiin, the Leasehold Reform Bill is a case in point.
Here is the set up for the morning, if you want to go, watch it live or watch it (as I will have to) after whatever you were doing before this announcement
First the links to watch (if you cannot get to Westminster), together with links to relevant information if you want to gen up
- Watch on Parliament Live
- Inquiry: Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill
- Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Harry is speaking with Halima Ali who campaigns for those being fleeced by managing agents. You know Harry’s work from this blog but here is the work of Halima and that of her team.
Their campaign is..
To put a stop to the use of the private estate model as a means of exploiting estate residents and delivering sub standard estates. Our aim is to abolish privately managed estates which are publicly accessible in favour of adoption by the public authorities.
Harry
Halima and HorNets
The last word is with Harry
