Old Conservatives don't understand

[motorbiking]

Not according to the chart in your link

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Do you seriously believe that poor people on benefits can buy homes?

Can you come up with a coherent justification for your belief that tenants in publicly-owned homes should have the right to buy them at half their value

And tenants in privately-owned homes should not?

It's impossible to come up with reasonable justification to do.

A selfish 1, that's easy

 

[Odds]

Not according to the chart in your link

The rise in new builds was consistent after 2003-04 up to 2009-10

 

[securespark]

They were a hundred years old, and therefore dark, damp, draughty, and not suitable for current day living.

There are countless thousands of terraces that are way over 100 years old and they are still doing sterling service.

If you want to look at it the other way round, there are thousands of homed that are suffering from poor maintenance, but it's nothing to do with age.

My first home was 100 when I bought it in 1989.

This year it will be 135 years old. Which is mildly satisfying as the house number is 135.

 

[securespark]

The figures made sense for the LAs to dispose of their housing stock. They had owned them from new and the sale value received by the LA (even at a discount) would have been very attractive to them.

Add to the mix they would no longer have the burden of maintenance and you can see that LAs were viewing the proposition as a no-brainer.

 

[motorbiking]

The rise in new builds was consistent after 2003-04 up to 2009-10

but still less than the previous conservative government. A visual analysis (because I can't be bothered to decompile the chart) also suggest the avg. was lower under labour too.

 

[Odds]

Fewer.

 

[motorbiking]

It's impossible to come up with reasonable justification to do.

A selfish 1, that's easy

except I did - but you ignored it https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/old-conservatives-dont-understand.624705/post-5668904

 

[Notch7]

the colour of the government makes no difference

yes it does

the Labour government doesnt have the connections to billionaires like the Conservatives

why do you think billionaire media owners lobby to have a Conservative govt in power?

have a look at all the Tufton street lobby groups -they are all right wing libertarian free marketeers

 

[Notch7]

Wait a mo on here the lefties are blaming the conservatives for the problems because of right to buy that Thachter started but after that Labour were in power for 13 years - did they put an end to it ?

thats wrong

the lefties on here blame both Conservative and Labour

but it was Thatcher who flogged 1.5m home and prevented councils building new ones

and the last 50 years has had 37 years of Conservative govt


its not hard to see who shoulders most of the blame

 

[big-all]

The figures made sense for the LAs to dispose of their housing stock. They had owned them from new and the sale value received by the LA (even at a discount) would have been very attractive to them.

Add to the mix they would no longer have the burden of maintenance and you can see that LAs were viewing the proposition as a no-brainer

100% disagree
you have an asset costing you no more than maintenance plus a small bit off capital costs over say 20-50 years the rent is an income that in the end means most off the rent is income from a little to virtually all
you then dispose off the asset cheaply you are now asset poorer and instead off the housing costing say £125 with some going back to coffers it now costs say £200 a week with all monies going to a private landlord for the same or similar house with the council picking up some or all the bill in many cases

 

[motorbiking]

yes it does

the Labour government doesnt have the connections to billionaires like the Conservatives

why do you think billionaire media owners lobby to have a Conservative govt in power?

have a look at all the Tufton street lobby groups -they are all right wing libertarian free marketeers

Don't be daft they are all part of the same social elite.

The super-rich socialists bankrolling Labour

Labour's efforts to win over business leaders are bearing fruit. One notable backer is eco warrior Dale Vince (pictured), who is worth £100m. We look at the other high-profile supporters.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

 

[Odds]

Don't be daft they are all part of the same social elite.

The super-rich socialists bankrolling Labour

Labour's efforts to win over business leaders are bearing fruit. One notable backer is eco warrior Dale Vince (pictured), who is worth £100m. We look at the other high-profile supporters.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

Did Dale Vance go to Eton?

 

[motorbiking]

Its money that talks not wearing stockings to school.

 

[Brigadier]

There are countless thousands of terraces that are way over 100 years old and they are still doing sterling service.

If you want to look at it the other way round, there are thousands of homed that are suffering from poor maintenance, but it's nothing to do with age.

My first home was 100 when I bought it in 1989.

This year it will be 135 years old. Which is mildly satisfying as the house number is 135.

In fairness to myself, I was talking about the ones I'd worked on, for slum clearance.

they were slums (I know : I had the dubious pleasure of surveying shoiteloads of them, in the early part of the millennium).

They were a hundred years old, and therefore dark, damp, draughty, and not suitable for current day living.

My uncle used to live in a Victorian-era terrace and, him being a handy plasterer, it was a beautiful place in which to live.

But it being in a quiet side street, and having a 75ft (guesstimated, from my memory) private back garden is a world away from the ones that were cleared in their thousands, with their cobbled 10 sq.yd yard, with an outside privy.