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Right To Buy From Landlord (Labor Proposal)
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Which already exists, but would benefit from strengthening & speeding up.
The EPC requirements could force some currently tenanted properties to become empty when current tenancies end, & with having to pay full council tax on empty properties...
A friend of mine has a house that has been empty for around 5 years.0 -
This policy would in effect be confiscating private property and could be subject to a legal challenge in my opinion. I do not understand how it could ever become legal to take someone's private property in this way without compensation at full market rates. Even a Compulsory Purchase Order has to provide adequate compensation.0
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This policy would in effect be confiscating private property and could be subject to a legal challenge in my opinion. I do not understand how it could ever become legal to take someone's private property in this way without compensation at full market rates. Even a Compulsory Purchase Order has to provide adequate compensation.
The UK Human Right Act allows the governement to confiscate property if it is in the public interest to do so. Thus we have the Proceeds of Crime Act. Momentum regard property as theft, so if you have a house or a flat you must have stolen it, and it must be in the public interest to take this asset off you and give it so someone who does not have the same level of wealth.
They don't care how hard you or your parents worked to earn the money to buy the property, because they are not a movement that represents the working class. They represent only those people who are jealous.The comments I post are my personal opinion. While I try to check everything is correct before posting, I can and do make mistakes, so always try to check official information sources before relying on my posts.0 -
Maybe the post-Brexit trade deal with the US has already sold our spelling to Trumplethinskin?1) It's 'Labour'
As for the proposal itself, let's all just take a breath and see, shall we?
One thing's for sure - no matter how bad a Corbyn government may or may not be, compared to the current incompetent blatant liar...0 -
It's not in their manifesto.0
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The FT ran a story on 16 November indicating that this policy had been dropped.0
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Thank you for letting us know about the article in FT, this is great news that this policy has now been dropped.0
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Thank you for letting us know about the article in FT, this is great news that this policy has now been dropped.
I think the Labour party have John Mcdonald said it would be simple have back peddled and realise that in reality like so many of their policies in reality it is not feasible.0 -
Well, given that Labour are hardly likely to get an overall majority of any sort, never mind one with enough Corbynist MPs to put through more radical proposals, it seems a waste of energy to start worrying about policies which they haven't even put in their manifesto.Since when did that make any difference? (For any party)
I would be more concerned about the things which Boris plans to do in the next 4.5 years which haven't been mentioned in his flimsy manifesto.0
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