Right To Buy

[tonyav]

The tories, party of the working people.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/generalelection2015/david-cameron-revives-right-to-buy-and-says-tories-are-the-party-of-working-people/ar-AAaXBbf

[naomi24]

^Oh gawd!

[yansee]

Councils now renting back houses from right to buy tenants because there are not enough being built,this a bribe for votes,housing authorities cannot be forced to sell to tenants,what about private tenants don`t they have the same rights as for Tories being the party for working people ( see they dropped the hard working people ) is a joke they are and always will be for the wealthy and those who think they are better than the majority.

[andy-hughes]

TWR - //Andy, there was a lot more that evil woman done at the time, get people to go into debt so the B/S + Banks could repossess, the police wages up, stock up the Power Stations, put the Army on alert, for one reason, your town paid the Price, Yorks / Notts paid the price! //

My town has been paying the price for the last forty years.

In my lifetime, I have seen a pottery industry that was the envy of the world be dismantled piece by piece with foreign outsourcing and cheap imports, a major steelworks, a massive Michelin factory, and a huge mining community all decimated by political greed and revenge.

But the naked vote-catching of the right-to-buy scheme is so odious that I could not sanction it for a moment.

My wife's uncle bought a three-bedroom council house for £8,000, he then sold it and moved to London. What of the local people who needed that house to rent? Their chance, and thousands like them across the city, has gone in one selfish (and failed!!) vote-catching move by a cynical Tory government.

Margaret Thatcher had no concept of poverty or social housing, she was married to a millionaire, now we have Cameron, who is a millionaire and has a similar lack of empathy where poorer people are concerned.

History really does repeat itself.

[naomi24]

It should be noted that Labour governments closed more mines than the Conservatives ever did, and that between 1998 and 2008, under a Labour government some 20,000 jobs were lost in the potteries. Of course the many Labour politicians who, like Cameron, are also millionaires, including Gordon Brown who abolished the 10p tax rate for the low paid and the ruthlessly ambitious Ed Miliband, are all heart. Out with the violins!! Sheesh! You people can’t see the wood for the trees!

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //You people can’t see the wood for the trees! //

If I am included among your Alan Partridge-esque 'You people ...', then I can see fully that Labour are every bit as bad when it comes to vote-catching, and decimating areas of employment.

I have advised many times that I regard Ed Milliband as unelectable - although the electorate may prefer him over Cameron in the end.

[tonyav]

Labour party for the working man went out of the window when Blair and his ''New Labour party appeared imo.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, I’ve no idea what ‘Alan Partridge-esque’ is.

Tony, you’re absolutely right. The Labour Party no longer exists.

[tonyav]

Tony, you’re absolutely right. The Labour Party no longer exists.


Certainly doesn't imo, naomi. I think there are a lot more people realising that now.

[New Judge]

"In my lifetime, I have seen a pottery industry that was the envy of the world be dismantled piece by piece with foreign outsourcing and cheap imports, a major steelworks, a massive Michelin factory, and a huge mining community.."

Do you really expect employers to cotinue running their businesses paying UK wages when they can get their goods manufactured so much more cheaply overseas, Andy? What exactly did you expect the government to do when the pottery companies decided to up sticks and shift their production elsewhere, compel them to stay?

[tamborine]

Selling council houses gains income to build multi occupancy high storey flats, that take less space than a housing sprawl.

[Kromovaracun]

It's all very well to say that home owning "gives people a stake", but rather ignores what the cost of that is. The astronomical boom in UK house prices which has proven extraordinarily destructive can directly be mapped on to the declining contribution of local authorities to housing.

Kindly consider what the long-term consequences of this policy is when you have finished salivating over how pretty it makes places or how nice it is for people to become homeowners.