Originally Posted by Tomhez
Originally Posted by TBM
Yep, greedy landlords - dehumanising is the right word.

Get rental properties back into council ownership and have clear qualification criteria and waiting lists.


We have become accustomed to being everyone's football of late and equally accustomed to batting away the homespun wisdom, with facts not political or personal motivation.

So you want take rental properties back into council ownership? Between 1980 and 1989, 970,558 council houses nationally were sold at a discount. A Labour policy introduced by Tories. There is a raving socalist local to us, who bought and sold his council house (at profit) and moved into rented accommodation, so he could buy himself a 100k motorhome.

So you want to blame landlords for now owning ex council houses? How about the ex tenants who cashed their chips in and the parties that you statistically speaking voted for?


Yep - the fault lies entirely at the feet on the successive Governments who sanctioned it, and the councils who facilitated it. All to bang a few quid in the treasury.

Greed is a natural human emotion, and people will exercise it when allowed to. Had a similar conversation with a Welsh Nationalist pal of mine, who was decrying the number of holiday homes and the destruction of the local community. I questioned why his Mum had sold her house to a Londoner for £200K rather than to a young local family for £100K to keep the community aive and he said she'd be a fool not to, and she bunged him a few quid from the sale.

Personally, it's not a route I'd take, but it's your money, and you are free to do what you want with it.

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