(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
Multi-millionaire Charles Gow is a buy-to-let landlord who owns over 40 former council flats.
Which is interesting, because his father, Ian Gow, was the Housing Minister under Margaret Thatcher during the so-called ‘right-to-buy’ sell off of council properties:
Third of ex-council homes now owned by rich landlords
And now the Tories have announced a brand new ‘right-to-buy’ policy which will no doubt once again benefit their own families to the detriment of everybody else.
What’s that saying?
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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Oh Tom….whatever can we do to prevent this further abomination? I remember Ian Gow and the Thatcher promise…so bloody cynical…bad start to the day & it’s raining!
We must shove the greedy arrogant Tories out next month….we must!
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Tories pledge more social cleansing with their proposal to extend right to buy: “The move would be funded by new rules forcing councils to sell properties ranked in the most expensive third of their type in the local area, once they become vacant.”
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Uncanny isn’t it?
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Policies that keeps the cash rolling in. Not to you and I, just the select few!
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Just to say that the SNP sfe ending the Right to Buy and have restarted the council house building programme. There is an alternative to austerity and neo liberal horror
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Yes but hey are going to use all the money they raise to build brand new housing, which essentially means that the new stuff will be very poor standard prefabs, because they will not be able to build to the same standard of the stuff they sell off to the housing agencies.
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As usual a brilliant post Tom, I am always tweeting about how these people make their money off the backs of the working people. Fact is they love it when things go belly up for us, that we are unable to pay our mortgages, that our houses are repossessed then sold off for much less than their worth, who profits from this? the same people who are running our Country into the ground! A friend of mine lost her home this way, she couldn’t pay the whole mortgage after her partner became too ill to work, her home was repossessed and sold, she then was able to rent the property back from the landlord, at a rent which was more than her mortgage! she then applied for housing benefit and this was paid! now if you understand the logic in this, you must have more brains than I do, because I do not understand how this is helping people, or helping the country. It is however helping the ever growing 1%
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How exactly does this so-called ‘right to buy’ scheme concern Britain’s poorest-of-the-poor? — The right to buy a garden shed? — Or a second-hand dog kennel???
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Way back in the 1980s when Thatcher first launched this policy I can remember the Students’ Union putting up a poster against it. It talked about how council houses were people’s homes, but ‘in the City they call it a ‘nice little earner”. How true that poster was. The mass sale of council houses in the 1980s resulted in some people desperately trying to find money to buy their houses, before they were sold on to private landlords, or arms length housing association, who immediately increased the rent. Pretty much like Charles Gow and his vile ilk.
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Yes, as Derick Tulloch says, there is an alternative, just not in England!!!
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So no mention of the greedy tenants who bought their council house cheaply under the right to buy scheme and then sold them on for a massive profit ? These are the people who took social housing and put it into the expensive private sector.Mr Gow just bought them.
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Interesting that the LABOUR MP, Emily Thornberry, also owns a £1m housing association home which she rents out. And then has the hypocrisy to criticise right-to-buy. #hypocriticalLabour.
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Cameron’s latest Right-to-Buy scheme will create even more rich landlords. Precious social housing will be disposed of at knock down prices. Why be surprised? Aristocrats selling off the family silver with no thought for the future – a fine old British tradition.
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