Bloke at work was crowing today about how he was going to buy his 2 bed council house and sell it on in 5 years time and make £75K free.
Apparently the tories are offering a 35% or more discount (up to £75K) on the "rebooted" right to buy scheme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/12/council-tenants-discount-right-buy
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4186170/75k-discount-if-you-buy-your-council-house.html
This seems a bit unfair to me, partly as many people are working/have worked their ar*es off trying to save up a decent deposit whilst paying private landlords excessive rents.
Why should government funds be spent on trying to boost up house prices again when it would be better spent on affordable social housing cooperatives etc or regulating excessive private rents?
They say they will build more houses from the revenue raised from sales. Yeah right.
Thoughts?
I have one friend who makes an actual living from on-line poker.
I have another with a gambling addiction and massive debts.
I guess its down to personality.
Any evidence for this, any trials? Anyone imprisoned for planning attacks on British soil from their bases in the Afghan wilderness?
"It's impossible to estimate how many lives have been saved" (great way to plan foreign policy)