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1/4 of Tory MPs are Landlords!

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  • cepheus
    cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
    Great Tory housing shame: Third of ex-council homes now owned by rich landlords

    The multi-millionaire son of a Tory minister who presided over the controversial “right-to -buy” scheme is a buy-to-let landlord owning scores of former council flats.

    A Daily Mirror investigation found a third of ex-council homes sold in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher were now owned by private landlords.

    In one London borough almost half of ex-council properties are now sub-let to tenants.
  • BobQ
    BobQ Posts: 11,181 Forumite
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    cepheus wrote: »
    Great Tory housing shame: Third of ex-council homes now owned by rich landlords

    The multi-millionaire son of a Tory minister who presided over the controversial “right-to -buy” scheme is a buy-to-let landlord owning scores of former council flats.

    A Daily Mirror investigation found a third of ex-council homes sold in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher were now owned by private landlords.

    In one London borough almost half of ex-council properties are now sub-let to tenants.

    Well when you sell council houses to people you are about to make redundant or who cannot afford them or allow their offspring to buy them what do you expect?

    I wonder if this is the next thread to be moved.
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
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