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[Lord Percy]

[Polarbear]

I would be quite happy if they took a zero off the back of house prices but I have already paid for my house. Those with mortgages would be fcuked but people wanting to buy would be better off. You would have to have rules in place to stop people buying large swathes of houses to rent out though.

I have to say I do not understand what fuels house prices. If it's supply and demand then there are a lot of people who obviously don't have a problem paying the prices asked or they would drop wouldn't they?

Germany for instance, most people rent rather than buy their homes but there again, a very high percentage of Spaniards buy their homes yet prices are way cheaper than UK.

No logic to it.
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[Riejufixing]

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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Easy-X]

Big rise in the social housing property traps. Latest one in my town is they knocked down (what was) council flats and rebuilt as one of those housing trust schemes. You get the luxury of owning 40% of an apartment
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[Polarbear]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[stinkwheel]

I think a lot of the problem was how the right to buy of the council housing stock was done.

I think it was an inherantly good idea apallingly implemented. The revenue from the sale of the stock should have been ring-fenced and only allowed to be used for the building of more social housing (which in turn should have been available to buy). Then supply would have kept ahead of demand because the cost of building a house is less than the income from selling one. Especially with regard to councils who have economies of scale and a special case when it comes to planning and obtaining/re-purposing land to build on.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Easy-X]

[MCN]

[chickenstrip]

What if you could have both Tories and Labour in power at the same time?
Tories look after the stuff that needs discipline and a hard head, Labour look after the social stuff? Each is allocated a budget from tax revenues.

Yeah, I know, probably a stupid idea. But you can't get rid of either one. That would be disastrous.
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[MCN]

[chickenstrip]

They'd never do that!

No, no, you don't get it. They each have their own responsibilities, and they don't interfere with each other in those domains. When we vote, we vote for two people, one for the head of the social policy body and one for the economic/foreign affairs etc section, or whatever way it is decided to divide the responsibilities.

Point being, you need both kinds of thinking.
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[TaffyTDM]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[bhinso]

Thing is I don't even really equate Labour with socialism.

In my lifetime, I look at the spike in that house price chart starting from 1995. Who was in charge for most of that ? Bliar. Buy-to-let and giving the Bank of England freedom over interest rates.

Whatever, the people who gained were the already asset rich landlords owning several houses, and the ones who suffered were those not yet on the housing ladder. If you owned one house you weren't better or worse off.

Hardly socialism IMO.

[chickenstrip]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[chickenstrip]

[MCN]

We need clear separation between Church and State.
Demolish Religion and Real Socialism will thrive.
Cancel TAX breaks for religious bodies (and charities) allowing that revenue to be diverted to meaningful purpose and not worthless BS.

(I already know that won't be popular. 🤣)
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[Lord Percy]

[Ste]

[UnknownStuntm...]

Bottom of 2nd page and still no mention of Hitler.

Who even are you people anymore.

[chickenstrip]