Labour-backing estate agent 'devastated' by arson attack

I can't believe any Estate or Letting Agent would back Labour. Did he not read what they wanted to do to our industry? I am not condoning any vandalism but this man must be stupid!

Is that you, Gordon? Still bitter at losing the last election and being blamed for the financial crisis? No need to take it out on the party you used to represent.

Either way, your point is ridiculous and indicative of the hyperbolic world we live in where fear and scaremongering wins out over rationality and sense. Not saying Labour would have been perfect for the industry, not by any stretch, but the Tories record on housing has been absolutely woeful. How many houses have they built over the last five years? How's their flagship Help to Buy scheme getting on? (From those who have used it, not very well at all). How are they getting on with helping first-time buyers onto the market? How are they getting on with dealing with the issues of Generation Rent? How are they getting on with bringing empty homes back into use?

The housing minister doesn't even have a position in Cabinet, that's how much it matters to the government.

And you kind of are condoning vandalism, aren't you? On the basis of your dislike of Labour, mansion tax, rent controls and bans on letting agent fees.

Labour were certainly going to do no more damage to the industry than the Tories will. The longer the government continues to ignore the housing shortage, the longer we all bob merrily along in this little housing bubble that is about to go pop.

I didn't get into estate agency to watch prices go up and up, out of the reach of most ordinary buyers. That's not a good long-term policy. Our whole economy seems based on high property prices - if it suddenly crashes, what's Plan B? I think too many of us in the industry are blind to that eventuality, brushing it off as extremely unlikely. I wouldn't be so sure.

Utterly abhorrent behaviour. No matter what your party political bias, there is absolutely no justification for such an attack of arson and vandalism. Disgraceful barely even covers it.

@Gordon Brown - your feeble attempts to defend this, in a very thinly-disguised way, are equally outrageous. There is no defending the indefensible.

I had a call late one night, the property management firm next door to us had been fire bombed! It seems the 'property manager' ( a baseball bat) had been applied to a tenant earlier in the day. Once out of casualty the tenant returned with a molotov cocktail.

While the attack is abhorrent, this guy broke one of the fundamental rules of marketing and that is DO NOT MAKE POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES.

Stay neutral - Always be neutral.

Completely unforgivable behaviour. I hope the perpetrators are caught and appropriately punished.

No matter what your political allegiances are, there is never any excuse for such a mindless act of vandalism. There really is no defence for it.

Agree with the general consensus here - a horrible, vindictive and potentially very dangerous act of violence. Who cares what his political persuasions are? That's absolutely no excuse for this.