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“I became a landlord almost by accident. Our neighbour was having difficulties selling his bungalow and the owner on the other side already had a portfolio of properties he rented out so we jumped at the chance to go in 50:50 and learn from him,” he said.

In the end, their would-be business partner couldn’t afford the investment, so Mr Shields and his partner bought the property outright for £164,000 before investing £20,000 to do it up.

Almost by accident. Meaning, I deliberately fucking invested £184k into being a landlord and it was not at all an accident in any way.

“However, what worried us most was the elimination of Section 21,” he said.

"We were forced to evict our 90-year old tenant because we were scared that we wouldn't be able to evict him later. In other words, we were always going to evict a 90-year-old, but it's Labour's fault we did it now"

Absolute cunts. Also the Telegraph: absolute cunts.