"Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation." (435)

To the Business Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 435.

435) "Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation." (www.independent.co.uk)

Dear Mr Javid,

We see that you were among the 73 MPs who chose to vote down Labour MP Karen Buck's sensible and humane amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill and yet are all in the privileged deriving an income of over £10.000 per annum from property.

The Prime Minister, David "don't make me look like a prat for not knowing how many houses I've got" Cameron, made a complete prat of himself by doing likewise.

What a squalid decision to condemn others far less fortunate than yourself to live in squalid homes not fit for human habitation on the incredibly squalid grounds that the new law would result in "unnecessary" regulation.

"Unnecessary" regulation?

It seems you chose not to heed the advice of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and its maladministrators at Ombudsman Services:Property (OS:P) who, when developing a code of best practice for landlords expected landlords such as yourself. "to perform better in the area of repairs" and who on doing so help those who aspire to live in a decent, vermin free and dry home, to do so.

It comes to something when the RICS, a regulator who can't or won't regulate its Members and Regulated Firms, and its "appointed" company OS:P whose executives maladminister consumers' complaints, input a code of practice with government so as to put pressure on landlords such as yourself  to do the decent thing when it comes to the poor and vulnerable in our society, only for you to vote down a Labour Party amendment aimed at achieving just that on the pathetic grounds that it would incur "unnecessary" legislation.

Politicians inhumanity to others makes countless millions weep.

Clearly, as is the case with the RICS and its colossal regulatory failure, the present system does not work. Certainly not for those with a vested interest in not making it work. It doesn't work for the clients of RICS accredited surveyors and it doesn't work to the tenants of certain landlords.

So congratulations Mr Javid, you've just voted to take politics back to the Rachman era of the 1950's thus trumping Mr Corbyn by twenty if not thirty years.

Q. Mr Javid, is "unnecessary" regulation, regulation that if implemented would eat into the profits of inefficient badly run businesses - so isn't - and therefore eats into the health and incomes of the rest of us because, as we know, in a society in which we are all in it together, efficient, well run businesses wouldn't need regulating in the first place?
Q. Mr Javid, the Ombudsmans61percent Campaign is full of good ideas - why not drag politics out of the 1950's and into the modern world and bar MPs with huge vested interests in property from voting on housing matters? I

It's sensible and democratic so you'll probably not like it.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.