Parents should offer their homes as guarentees

Linton

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Wow!

Looks like we have some intelligent thinking on the boards at last.

I can start on the first item. There are enough unemployed people around - at minimum wage I hope, because I wouldn't pay a penny more - to go round house to house to observe which are the greedy ones and the profiteers. Simple questions should suffice. "How much did you pay and when? What is it worth now?". Anyone with more than a 2% profit per year is surely a candidate, and will need to be kicked out.

While I'm building up this list, I'll leave it to you to gather the tanks and brown-shirted army to evict all these profiteers from their houses.

Small problem... getting the government to introduce the 'cap' you want, but we will put our own cap on the houses we re-possess. About £50K each sounds about right. That's affordable housing isn't it? If we get enough of them, we'll control the market won't we?

Where do we start? Loughton? Should have the red flag flying here by Christmas. Where next? Chigwell... Epping... Chipping Ongar... Buckhurst Hill...

Boy am I getting excited....

Let's go.....

And then we can set up the committees to decide who does get the newly available houses. Selling them to those people with the most money will just encourage more greed.

Loughton_Monkey

Linton wrote: »

And then we can set up the committees to decide who does get the newly available houses. Selling them to those people with the most money will just encourage more greed.

You're probably right. I'd rather called them 'politbureaux' than committees. All the members and party faithful will get the free houses (the larger ones) first.

But I think we aren't doing it right if we stick simply to controlling properties. There is so much more we should control. I suggest, for a modest start, all the means of production, and the supply of everything.

I am sending letters of invitation for the politbureau to the obvious candidates... Brother Brown, Brother Balls, and Brother Milliband....

I've left out Brother Crow. He is of the right politics, but quite frankly he's a boring and odious little man and could be a bit of a troublemaker.

chewmylegoff

Linton wrote: »

Err no. Their source of funding dried up because no-one in the world wanted to lend ANY bank any money. Potential lenders didnt know whose asset base was compromised by the US sub prime mortgages.

good to hear that all the other banks went bust at the same time NR did, i hadn't realised that.