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[carmanmemoranda]

Great British sell-off: how desperate councils sold £9.1bn of public assets

Bureau for Investigative Journalism and HuffPost UK research shows scale of sales and indicates impact of austerity on local authority budgets

www.theguardian.com

Desperate councils.

Not sold for any other reason

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Great British sell-off: how desperate councils sold £9.1bn of public assets

Bureau for Investigative Journalism and HuffPost UK research shows scale of sales and indicates impact of austerity on local authority budgets

www.theguardian.com

Which proves most councils can’t run a tap.

So RTB helped out their poor cash flow.

 

[JohnD]

Councils are glad to get rid of old housing stock and build new ones.

It’s that simple.

Can you point out some people whose business plan is to sell their assets below their value?

 

[denso13]

Why have they sold millions that aren’t right to buy then ?

Houses?

 

[denso13]

Great British sell-off: how desperate councils sold £9.1bn of public assets

Bureau for Investigative Journalism and HuffPost UK research shows scale of sales and indicates impact of austerity on local authority budgets

www.theguardian.com

"Bureau for Investigative Journalism and HuffPost UK research shows scale of sales and indicates impact of austerity on local authority budgets".

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Can you point out some people whose business plan is to sell their assets below their value?

I think I’ve been clear with you John, you don’t answer questions so yours won’t be answered.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Houses?

Millions of pounds worth of assets Denny.

Unless you think that’s a good idea ?

 

[denso13]

Millions of pounds worth of assets Denny.

Not houses then. And not RTB. That's ok.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Which proves most councils can’t run a tap.

So RTB helped out their poor cash flow.

Doesn't prove what you say

 

[JonathanM]

No sold

Thanks for the article. It doesn't seem to be talking about houses, though, as far as I can see. It says councils have been selling off other public assets, to cover cuts in central government funding. But not houses.

As regards social housing, I've brushed up on some figures. In 1980 there were 6.5 million social homes. Of these, 2 million have been sold under RTB. Now there are 4.5 million. There hasn't been the massive, voluntary sell off of millions of social homes which you mention. If just one million had been sold at full price to developers, that would easily have brought in £100 billion.

Building new social housing has been very difficult since 1980, due to restrictions from central government. That is why the stock is broadly the same now as it was back then (when you knock off the 2 million sold under RTB).

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I think I’ve been clear with you John, you don’t answer questions so yours won’t be answered.

Because he can't, well not without contradicting himself.

He's trolling again

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Not houses then. And not RTB. That's ok.

There’s plenty of houses been sold besides RTB

Commercial property commands a higher rent, so the above is part of a larger loss.

You know that though….

 

[denso13]

There’s plenty of houses been sold besides RTB

Examples?

You know that though….

I really don't.

 

[catlad]

"The extent to which young people tend to vote more for leftwing parties and older people for conservatives is often overstated. For all the talk of Donald Trump’s toxicity to America’s diverse youth, almost 40 per cent of 20-something US voters backed him in 2020, and the same share plan to do so this November. More than a third of young adults voted for the right in the most recent elections in France, Germany and Spain. There is generally an age gradient, to be sure, but its steepness is often exaggerated.

Britain today requires no such caveat. While the Tories have slumped with almost all demographics, the near-complete desertion of Rishi Sunak’s party by young Britons is astonishing. According to the latest polling, only one in 10 under-40s will vote Conservative at the next election."

FT,com

How do you know that 40% of USA 20 something age group vote for trump?

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Examples?
I really don't.

You don’t know commercial property has a better return ?