"The Alternative Eulogy to Thatcher"

[WinkyDink]

The Council House Sell Off

The great council house sell off, Thatcher’s plan to turn the working class into the new property class, was a manifest failure; more than a third of ex council houses now sit in the property portfolios of wealthy landlords. In fact, the son of Thatcher’s Housing Minister at the time the ‘Right to Buy’ scheme was launched is now the proud owner of no less than forty ex council houses.

The limited remaining council housing rationed out to the poorest of the poor with council housing waiting lists and mortgages ever further out of reach, everyone else is a hostage to the private rental market dominated by these landlords.

Since then, decades of defunct housing policy has left the UK with a housing shortage crisis. The UK is building 100,000 homes a year less than it needs to in order to meet requirements. The National Housing Federation issued a report last year which showed Housing Benefit has doubled in recent years as a direct result of an astronomical increase in housing costs. The report shows an 86% rise in housing benefit claims by working families, with 10,000 new claims coming in per month. House prices are now 300% higher (in real terms) than in 1959. If the price of a dozen eggs had risen as quickly, they would now cost £19. Rents across the UK have risen by an average of 37% in the UK in just the last three years.

http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/the-alternative-eulogy-to-thatcher-dead-in-body-alive-in-spirit/
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[JDPriestly]

1. That is what the very rich are trying to do here.

They want to own everything and make us into their tenants and slaves. That's the plan.

The foreclosure crisis was just the first step.

You know what? We have to do a lot, a whole lot better than Obama in 2016. And Clinton does not fit the bill.

We have to have a candidate who will openly, loudly and clearly address and propose a solution for the problem we are talking about here -- the move by the rich to make American society feudal.