Unbelievable Jeff

We seem to have a fair amount of 2 beds built where I am, but then 3 bed homes start around the £550k so guess that's to offer more 'affordable' homes...Not that anything is affordable.

I'm not lying, I'm just reading your posts and trying to decipher the inconsistencies in them. It's pretty difficult, as it seems as contradictory as your lefty, selfless, high horse view of life when compared to your "I pay enough tax" nimbyism.

Damn straight on the planning. My dad was building a small estate of houses in Hordle, but the Planning office and Section 106 payments (he was building 3 houses) made the site unprofitable and he ended up selling at a big loss.

Buying another place? Don't you rent though? Or are you an unscrupulous landlord?

I'm not attacking what you do for your family. What I don't understand is how you say you can afford to buy your Mum her council house but can't afford to buy your own. Just doesn't make any sense to me, so perhaps you can enlighten me.

Apart from Pap. He can afford to buy his Mum's council house outright, but not buy his own house in Liverpool.

God you're so easy to wind up, you need to calm down love :lol: I don't actually think it's a particularly good idea UNLESS they are replacing all the properties (and actually building more - we are short). I have to say though, surely the fact that only 1/3 of properties are in the hands of private landlords is a bit low, I would have thought by the outrage on here it would be much, much higher.

Just out of interest, instead of finding new brownfield sites to build properties on, why don't we make use of the huge number of empty office blocks - renovations of properties would be much cheaper and would increase the housing stock massively. It has been done recently in my local area by private companies (estate agents) and its regenerated the areas as well as providing housing.

Reduce benefits - Conservatives criticised. Give poor people free money - Conservatives criticised. No win. Not exactly wealth redistribution though, it's not a Robin Hood situation.

Won't sell him this Summer, will next.

As an aside, when's the stag do, and where are we going?

I would have thought the booking is made through an API, isn't it?

Definitely have expensive tastes, that's why you never had a chance.

I assume the contract is with the hotel and not with Hotels.com anyway.

Ring them. Personalise it and you're likely to get a better result.

True.

Scary ****.

Ha, ok, so if you've not driven a RWD car before DO NOT turn your wheel and floor it unless in the Gallardo (they're 4WD aren't they?). I did it an Dunsfold too. Yes, you pay £30 I think it was for the Ariel Atom, but it's worth it, it's just mindblowingly quick.

I didn't read your piece, didn't have time. If I'd have known you'd written it, instead of it being the usual politically bias piece you tend to find attached here I may have tried to find the time. I will look at it later.

Not sure who that is in response to, but if me, I asked you a question and you went around the houses answering. I wanted your position on it, my insight has nowt to do with it.

I don't think we're getting anywhere here. What you're saying is you wouldn't buy a council house if you were in the position to and people like Batmans Mum shouldn't ever be able to get themselves on the property ladder through council house discount initiatives unless they know it's being replaced. If they can't guarantee it's being replaced they should turn it down. That's all I wanted, and thats fair enough.

You do not, legally, have the right to buy a council house. And that's it. What your saying is that if you know someone with a council house, you have the right to buy it, so i think we all qualify for the right to buy scheme!

So you have the money to buy your old dear her council house, but not to put down a deposit on a house of your own? How much would you give her to buy her council home - I presume it would have to be pure cash as she is possibly too old to get a mortgage.

So you don't have the right to buy then?

So you currently live in a council house?