Right to buy scam further outrages decency

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Ummmm, why are you two arguing with yourselves?

reweird

chucknorris wrote: »

reweird wrote: »

The point was not about agreeing you fool it was demonstrating that I am a bull (or least fit the role as it fits on this website). I think you must be drunk (or perhaps just stupid), your reasoning is all over the place.

I must admit I am drunk tonight. I apologise if I've inadvertently offended and will back off and review this thread in the morning.

chucknorris

reweird wrote: »

chucknorris wrote: »

I must admit I am drunk tonight. I apologise if I've inadvertently offended and will back off and review this thread in the morning.

Appology accepted, lets move on and not bore the pants off the rest of the forum.

goodz

That's interesting. Years ago the discount for some (or was it most?) council places in London was £38k then it went down some and then, as I remember it, it went down again to just £13k. Plus more discount based on how many years the prospective buyers had been resident.

So as there's always a massive shortage of housing in UK due to successive governments always failing to build enough, or let people build their own on their own land, I wonder why they now want to help council house buyers in this way. One would assume that there's probably some reasoning going on. But on the face of it moving more council stock into private hands is surely just going to exacerbate the acute shortage rather than ease it in anyway. Or am I missing something here. Probably.

Maybe I'll read this up a bit and try to find out.

I've just read the article again and in the caption for the photo it says : "The government is to double the right-to-buy discount for council tenants as part of its scheme to boost the housing market crisis." But what is "to boost the house market crisis" supposed to mean when it's at home.

So some tenants will become buyers which is good for them, as long as they can get mortgages and then pay them off and or sell up and or rent the properties out to private renters.

But then there's even less council housing available so the current waiting lists of 20 years to never for most people go down to 40 years to never. So that's a mistake, isn't it.

chewmylegoff

meg72 wrote: »

No they dont stay late at the office, they go home home and start again, perhaps helping with homework,taking to extra activities,doing the grocery shop, cooking a meal. decorating the home,all sorts of extra jobs that having a family entail and please dont forget your old age pension depends on these familys growing up

I don't have kids and can confirm that the supermarket comes around when I am out and stocks he fridge, my meals cook themselves by magic, and the house learned to decorate itself last year. Does this all change when you choose to have a child?