Rented Homes Must Be Of Good Standard - Now!
Published by Stephen Milward in Politics · Wednesday 28 Jan 2026 · 2 minutes
Tags: rented, homes, landlords, good, standard, decent, standard, housing, quality, tenant, rights, rental, properties, property, management
Tags: rented, homes, landlords, good, standard, decent, standard, housing, quality, tenant, rights, rental, properties, property, management
It is surely the mark of a civilised society that everyone, no matter from what background, class, education or economic power, has the right, not the wish, the right to a home of decent standard.
Capitalism doesn't recognise that.
The capitalist Labour party promised to make private rented homes fit for habitation via the Decent Homes Standard. But, as usual, Labour has sided with the propertied landlords and will not enforce it for years - until 2035! (i)
What does it take for this Labour party, not a party Keir Hardie (ii) would recognise, for think of the poor and the weakest in society? Why would they, when many of the government are rich, having no concept of how the poorest people attempt to live? They are not made up of the working class, instead they are lawyers and other bourgeois class members, having no sympathy to working class, unemployed, ill, and badly housed people. They wouldn't keep their dogs in the houses some poor people live in.
Again, the Labour party have proved beyond doubt that they are more interested in the powerful propertied class than they are the very people that sent them to parliament to represent them. Time and again, Starmer's cowards have shown that they will not fight for the poor, rather they prefer to cosy up to the rich. They are an absolute disgrace. They are class traitors and they will never be forgiven.
(i) The Guardian 28 January 2026: Fury as enforcement of decent homes standard for private renters in England put back to 2035
(ii) Wikipedia: Keir Hardie
