Something tells me...
...this is aimed at all the foreigner nationals, buying up stock and then just renting it out, whilst claiming they live here to scam some taxes.
I doubt they will give a toss and ignore the law anyway.
London residents will soon be able to enter the so-called "sharing economy", under changes to the law allowing them to use websites such as Airbnb without the fear of a £20,000 fine. In the rest of the country, residents are able to let out their homes for short periods. But in London, under Section 25 of the Greater London …
Those damn foreigners. We dont mind them taking up our low wage/low skill jobs but damn them to hell if they dare want to invest their money here! We dont mind them putting up the houses but buying them! The cheek! The nerve! The only good foreigner is a poor foreigner who cant afford a house so we can rent it to groups of them at a time while they labour away doing the jobs too low for us. Of course when they buy our houses and rent them to us it shatters this little world we have where we are king.
What is this world coming to? And of that view I am sure they dont give a toss.
but it is not.
The cronies are above the law but the plebs most certainly are not.
This is why you cannot legally sell a raspberry pi freepbx with a 3G dongle
Still the plebs seem quite happy as long as they have Strictly and sit alone drinking cheap supermarket booze.
It would be more wonderful if:
1) An MP was only allowed to have one job (MP)
2) That job was paid the average UK wage.
3) They had to live where they're the MP.
That would focus their minds on what would make Britain a nicer place to live.
Even the 'socialist' leaders these days are millionaires living in the posh places and sending their kids to private schools, using private health and generally avoiding the plebs like me.
I thank my overlords for this crumb though.
It would be more wonderful if:
1) An MP was only allowed to have one job (MP)
2) That job was paid the average UK wage.
3) They had to live where they're the MP.
4) They make up the rest with graft?
In one single blow, you'd make it so that the only people who were MPs were those who are solely interested in power and exploiting that power.
Besides which, who becomes an MP for the wealth? Most of those coming from outside of politics would have taken a pay cut when elected as an MP.