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Keeping a UK Council property for life even though you no longer live in the UK

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Vintlet · 12/06/2026 14:42

This story has just been released
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyxkeny8x6o
It seems so unfair given the lack of social housing in the uk that the First Lady of Sierra Leone expected to be allowed to keep her London social housing property as a pied a terre. Surely we cannot be expected to house the world. No one in authority would have realised given that she was still paying the rent if she hadn’t boasted about keeping it on a radio interview. I wonder how many people keep and sublet uk council properties when they no longer have a right to keep it.

Headshot of a woman wearing a red headwrap and matching top which are patterned with green flowers. She has a gold necklace and earrings.

Fatima Bio: Council takes possession of property linked to politician

Southwark Council in south London takes possession of a property linked to Sierra Leone's Fatima Bio.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyxkeny8x6o

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Upupandaway10 · 13/10/2026 06:11

mindutopia · 12/06/2026 14:45

Sadly, this is only news because she’s Black and foreign. I can only guess how many white British pensioners there are in Tenerife doing the same!

No it’s because she’s a First Lady in another country.

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