13 September - The housing Merry-Go-Round
There
are a whole load of things wrong with this country which our billionaire Prime
Minister apparently fails to recognise but one of the worst and
most longstanding is that young people and even middle-aged people are unable to buy their own home.
How many UK problems could have been fixed if the clown had not
given away
nearly two billion US dollars of our money to solve other countries’ climate change issues
without seeking agreement from any of us, including MPs?
I have said this or something like it before. In 1961 I was earning £403
a year including London weighting and commuting daily from Hampshire.
By the beginning of 1963 after a change of job I was on £820 a year but two
years later had saved enough cash to attach myself to the bottom end of the
housing ladder with a two bedroom ground floor flat with its own garden.
I am not sure who put an end to that happy state of affairs but it was
definitely a politician. Looking back over the past 60 years one can only
conclude that every last one of them who rose above back-bencher has been
either useless, incompetent, self serving or corrupt and probably several of those things.
Young family men such as Mr. Murky (see adjacent Tweet/X
which is one of many similarly themed) are unable to fully provide for their
partners and children and for some that will be soul-destroying.
Some in his situation seem to think that Mr. Starmer will be their salvation which
65 years of political awareness makes me think is Cloud Cuckoo Land but we
already have incompetent Socialists ruling the country so it probably doesn’t matter much any more.
Mrs. Thatcher allowed Council house tenants to buy their homes at a huge
discount and by and large they weren’t replaced. Those that remained Council owned were
eventually taken over by Housing Associations who are themselves
doing
something of a Thatcher on them. Selling them off to the highest bidder. Below is
yet another one.
Maybe I am too old and demented to see any merit in this. If Mr. Murky is
good for a quarter of a million pounds maybe the likes of him can
grab the bottom rung of the ladder but I fail to see how yet another Housing
Association sell off helps anyone; except perhaps the buy to let landlords and the HMO profiteers.
