collis

personally, I am a tennant and I must say my landlord is great, never gives us any bother or anything and simply lets us pay the rent. we're now officially out of the initial contract with him too so that's 2 months notice to be given however we've given him no reason for that and as a retirement option for him he wants us there.
Albeit we nearly ended up being a DSS tennant thaks to connaught he was happy with that as he knew that I would be actively persuing moving to a better job (which i did).

I agree that all tennants should have rights, however also agree that there needs to be a limit where the landlord is allowed to step in and take required action for non payments etc then all property and rights of the tennant are allowed to befall onto the landlord and the tennant is forcibly removed and must request personal effects back.
The courts should also stop the rubbish where people get 50p per weeek for the next 20 years to repay a judgement in teh case of criminal damage/theft (which lets face it, it is) and the tennant should be given harder punishments like jail terms.