Originally Posted by g jones (Post 858836)

PRS private rented sector. Sorry

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 858838)

A french bloke I met made £80,000 selling his council flat that he bought for £36,000 then he went back to France with the money!

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 858839)

You're forgiven. But next time you're in detention, London, thursday night.

Originally Posted by cmonstanley (Post 858834)

or if you bought one and the biggest bunch of numpties moved next door and you were stuck there:eek:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 858924)

Well that was money well spent then:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 858926)

There in detention every night Tealeaf, ask Ken Moss and CS they watch them on the Parliamentary Channel:D

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 859177)

Nah mate, Thursday is quiz night at The Mill Tavern in Higher Walton, been presenting that for 11 years.

My questions are slightly easier....

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 859091)

When introduced the right to buy was seen as a great leap for working families.. I have friends that bought good council owned houses in the mid 80's paying a mortgage that was near enough the same as the rent they already paid, and it transformed their lives.
The problem was always going to be that when the "good" or best housing had been bought up the councils were left with the not so good... this, along with the disgraceful regulations imposed by Thatcher that any money made from council house sales could not be used to build new homes resulted in what we have today...not enough council housing and no money in the coffers to build new homes.

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 859302)

then companies started lending poor people the money to buy - the deal was when it was sold you got a cut and they, the company then owned the house of flat and then rented it out or sold it for a profit! Thatcher's got a lot to answer for!

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 859485)

What utter guff ! Thatcher wasn't responsible for the actions of money lenders & housing agencies making a quick Buck ? She wasn't selling the houses/Homes off it was their owners !

Even our arch Socialist/Laborite/Raging Red Mancie deemed the right to buy (all be it grudgingly as it was a Tory idea) a reasonable thing. No my friend your ire needs pointing at a different scapegoat, but as your leanings & tendencies appear to be of the red kind, this kind of "outburst" can be understood. ;)

There are blinkered fools on all sides of the Political spectrum, be they Blue/Green/Red/Yellow or dayglo pink ! So don't feel singled out, it is just that those who receive the most grief are those who make the most outlandish & least well-thought-out comments :)

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 859485)

What utter guff ! Thatcher wasn't responsible for the actions of money lenders & housing agencies making a quick Buck ? She wasn't selling the houses/Homes off it was their owners !

Even our arch Socialist/Laborite/Raging Red Mancie deemed the right to buy (all be it grudgingly as it was a Tory idea) a reasonable thing. No my friend your ire needs pointing at a different scapegoat, but as your leanings & tendencies appear to be of the red kind, this kind of "outburst" can be understood. ;)

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 859633)

Maybe but it was her and her government that allowed people to buy counil houses at a reduced price - as I have stated there was a discount of about 40% (not sure of exact amount, but it was enough to make a profit) off the full price that right to buy tenants got. This was the government who allowed this to happen. Latter on when Labour got in John Prescott lowered the amount so that it wasn't so easy for people to make a profit from buying and then selling a council house. This is fact mate! People bought council houses at knock down prices! Courtesy of the Thatcher Government! ;)

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 859659)

If the income from sales of council housing had been placed into a fund that could have been used to build good new community housing then it would have been a good policey.. but Thatcher banned councils from building new council homes with this money... the tories did not and still don't believe in social housing.. we ended up again with working families and even the armed forces paying high rents for below stantard homes...I'm getting fed up of saying this but It will all happen again when the tories bring in the every ten years review that rent paying council families will have to go through.