Scottish Government plan to scrap Right To Buy Scheme

IveSeenTheLight

themanbearpig wrote: »

I never agreed with right to buy.

Its just rewards those that never bothered to work hard enough in life. Why should those that worked hard at school, got good qualifications and made something out of their lives pay for the idiots that didn't, to get on the property "ladder".

Everyone has the opportunity to better themselves at any age in the country, but government handouts like right to buy aren't productive.

Not strictly true.

My grandmother-in-law bought their council house decades after living in there.
The G-I-L worked for years on the railways doing split shifts while her husband was a WWII pilot and later died.

These people did work hard. much harder than most people do today.
They were brought up in a generation when most property was social and few was private owner occupied.

The reason she bought, well in her latter years the council was unwilling to adapt the home for her benefit i.e. she could no longer get in and out of a bath but would not put in a shower. So the property was bought so it could be modernised for her and help her maintain a respectable life in the latter years.

These people were certainly ones who I believe deserved the right to buy after spending decades renting from the council.

carolt

Shame this policy is only in Scotland, though...

Sounds eminently sensible.

When if ever will it be applied in the rest of the UK?