Tuesday 14 April 2015

Bringing It Home

The housing associations would sue, and good luck to them. Although there is an obvious way of preventing that situation from ever arising.

One wonders which other aspects of Thatcherism David Cameron has never quite grasped. If he thinks that the State still owns the housing association stock, then does he also think that the State still owns telecommunications, or the steel industry?

The great landed estates are subsidised up to their eyeballs, and not, in principle, without good reason. If it matters, by no means all of their residential property is in the countryside.

I am not advocating this. But if the homes belonging to the housing associations, some of them built after the sale of council houses and therefore never public property, can be forcibly sold (and that at well below the market rate) at the mere breath of David Cameron, then why not also the homes belonging to the great landed estates?

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