Glad to hear it Becky, to be fair, they should have reduced the mens age to 61 to, rather than screw the girls over, that was wrong and I have a friend who got caught out.

So you aren't keen to actually give anything up then.

I just thought that if you're going to repeat leftist phrases that you should think about the personal consequences of them if they were realised.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So if tory policy over the years was so unfair why have many Labour MPs
(share the wealth) purchased a former local authority property. Hell I bet even some anti tories on here own a former LA property. No matter how far back it was still LA owned.
Diane thicko paid 80k for hers in North London back in the day. Worth 7 figures now. Oh the irony
Hands up then, who's in the same camp.
I personally would have if given the choice, my parents did and it gave a massive boost to the property market.

I met my Dutch friend yesterday I was asking her about the property market in Holland. It's a mixed bag but a lot of it is rent controlled.

Interestingly she said that salary was linked to rent controls and the homeowner had to move out once they broke through a salary cap.

So young couple low wages get a rent controlled home but once their careers take off and their on a good salary they have to move.

Apparently most Dutch except this as fair perhaps our Trade union leaders on £150k who live in council houses might like to think about that.

One more point

There are plenty of cheap houses across the country. For the time being they are just in the wrong place.

The pandemic has acceleration decentralisation of jobs away from London. Sorting out the infrastructure to allow more highly paid jobs to exist away from London would be another way.

With the amount of flats going up, getting on the housing ladder doesn't seem to be our biggest issue. Getting up the housing ladder into decent sized family homes seems more difficult. Empty nesters seem to be hogging the housing stock, often passing property to their kids, who then rent it. Charging people for care out/pension top ups by using equity in the property could be one way to fund this, assuming the value of property is always rising, or more inheritance tax could be another way.

(Or instead of discussion, we could just bore everyone by blaming immigrants)

Yup but I don't know what the exact formula is you would hope it is based on disposal income. Anyway this is seen as a good system, the problem in this country is that people who rent decide that this is their home so how dare they be told to move out for a poorer couple.

One more point

Yeah, as I said in my post, I gave up a large slice of the rent I could have taken, can"t be fairer than giving free cash can I?

Ha ha, yes, pesky immigrants, taking our jobs! And some of these Poles. apparently, so a mate of a friend heard, were sending the money they earned here home to Poland, to help their families! FFS! Sending it home! Thats gratitude for you, not soending it here, helping our economy, but sending it home ! Wheres the calvalry from Europe anyway? Thought they would be flooding Dover to take part in our generous 3 month work offer, going home on christmas eve,(although I heard this is now extended to late march) ? Thats gratitude for you, we keep them alive all these years with her majestys shilling, and when we are fcuked, they don"t rush over to bail us out? Tut tut, we are sinking, without a paddle, and its all the pesky immigrants fault!

Labour more trusted to keep taxes low than the Tories, says poll.

Well well, wonders will never cease.

And its actually merited when you look at the facts, not the tory press.

And obviously trusted to be more socially responsible, not putting people into poverty, evictions etc.

A 4-star hotel and the corks popping tonight for the tory conference, why do we let them get away with it.

Tbh I guess the rent in Germany is capped at a price for a size.
Sensible way to operate the system. I stand to be corrected though.