Housing secretary Robert Jenrick likes to do favours for his ridiculously rich cronies. He came to attention in May when he “unlawfully approved” a planning scheme for Richard Desmond (AKA ‘Mr Badger’) and on Saturday, this murky multi-millionaire Tory MP again showed his true colours when he bizarrely tweeted celebrating the fact that estate agents could remain open in Tier 4 areas even.

Whilst the public are cruelly banned from going to a socially distanced restaurant space or from having dinner with their lonely granny in her kitchen because of the risk of spreading coronavirus, how is it acceptable for estate agents to be allowed to take members of the public into the private spaces of peoples’ homes for viewings?

For jobsworth Jenrick, it seems, allowing prospective buyers and tenants to touch doors, walls and surfaces in confined spaces is not at all risky, but one is left wondering how he came to this conclusion. In June, the Independent revealed that the Conservative Party had received £11 million (or over a quarter of their donations) from the property sector since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.

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Jobsworth Jenrick Props Up Property – Estate agents open in Tier 4 – Jobsworth Robert Jenrick announces estate agents can take potential virus spreaders into peoples’ homes even in Tier 4 lockdown areas; a quarter of donations to the Tory party come from the property sector.
Stay Homes, Save Lives… But NOT if you’re an estate agent… Why have estate agents not been lumped into “non-essential” businesses forced to close by our incompetent government? The answer as to why “Stay Home, Save Lives” has not been applied to the property sector is unsurprising: A quarter of donations to the Tory Party comes from the property sector and we all know that Robert Jenrick enjoys Carlton Club suppers with rich developers like Richard Desmond.
Jobsworth Jenrick Props Up Property – Estate agents open in Tier 4 – Jobsworth Robert Jenrick announces estate agents can take potential virus spreaders into peoples’ homes even in Tier 4 lockdown areas; a quarter of donations to the Tory party come from the property sector.
Jenrick tweeted jubilantly about estate agents remaining open for business on Saturday. His government, meanwhile, has forced many other businesses to close and many of them will most likely tragically never reopen.
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Jobsworth Jenrick Props Up Property – Estate agents open in Tier 4 – Jobsworth Robert Jenrick announces estate agents can take potential virus spreaders into peoples’ homes even in Tier 4 lockdown areas; a quarter of donations to the Tory party come from the property sector.
Twitter users were unsurprisingly unimpressed by Robert Jenrick’s enthusiasm for estate agents remaining open. One, Gavin Wilkins, remarked: “So thanks to the announcement my mum’s shit scared to come to my house for Xmas (she’s on her own), but I can go to value or view as many houses as I want. Sums it all up. Shitshow – government should be ashamed.”
Jobsworth Jenrick Props Up Property – Estate agents open in Tier 4 – Jobsworth Robert Jenrick announces estate agents can take potential virus spreaders into peoples’ homes even in Tier 4 lockdown areas; a quarter of donations to the Tory party come from the property sector.
Boris Johnson is equally happy to hang out with porn baron turned property developer. He should now be asked: “What first attracted you to the multi-millionaire Richard Desmond, Boris?”