The Labour Party are bloody hypocrites

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I think Angela rayner has got a nerve to start slashing the right to buy when she has profited from it, is she going to give the money back then that she pocketed from this scheme when she sold her house? I have always been a labour supporter and I am as working class as they come but I am so angry about this. I am not denying that the right to buy policy has its issues but it's just tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis and ignoring the real issues. I may be slightly emotional about this as I live in a one bedroomed council flat that I was planning on buying next year, my only hope of probably ever owning a property. Instead, if and when I choose to have children and I am overcrowded, they will now have to rehouse me themselves instead to a bigger property and I will now probably be a lifelong council tenant. Fabulous. Why are they targeting the people at the bottom? I can't support them anymore sadly.

In a way … this “investment scheme” rent to buy, seems like a NOT to fit the definition Labour says is “working people”
Right to buy should be taxed on the difference between market and actual price paid. Tax paid on the “discounted” rent ….

Are they just bribing for votes too?

I’m saying that the Jay report doesn’t even mention MPs. Since you don’t like the BBC, the actual report here supports my argument, not yours.

https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/279/independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-exploitation-in-rotherham

Vote for muppets, that’s what you get.

That wasn’t an option on my ballot slip.

I would have voted for the cookie monster! Abolish cookie VAT!

That is an appalling thing to say about another poster, showmethebotox

Add to that the Hesley group ABUSE at disabled schools - dozens of reports to police, social care and safeguarding … yet no action taken. Schools in Rotherham & Doncaster.
A whistleblower finally got school closed down but NO arrests because it was “too long ago” for “non -sexual” assaults and “not enough evidence”

The schools are owned by Private Equity & most staff working at other schools now.

Labour loves the criminals.

I cant honestly think of any other reason why some one would be denying this all the way through a thread. Its shameful

I have no idea what the deleted post said but nobody’s denying anything. Rotherham was a shameful and appalling stain on this country’s history, particularly the council and police force which were both responsible.

Saying that there is no evidence any MPs were involved in a cover up is not shameful.

Your post was shameful, good thing it was deleted.

It would be easier to build houses "right now" if councils sold council houses at a price that enabled them to commission replacements.

She didn’t win a libel case because someone said she’d sent a tweet. She won the libel case because of a load of stuff that then followed. That might seem pedantic, but in the matter of law that’s quite an important distinction. There’s nothing defamatory or libellous about stating an undisputed (and easily verifiable) fact.

It’s not the price that’s the issue, up to now councils are constrained by legislation preventing them from replacing them.

You are absolutely right someone should but up theses houses so there are no council one bed flats to rent.

@BIossomtoes "Rotherham was a shameful and appalling stain on this country’s history, particularly the council and police force which were both responsible"

Indeed. But as you say, there is no evidence that MPs were involved.

I am curious as to how so many people in your family have been able to get council housing? I thought it was hard to get.

It wasn't as hard years ago. I'm 60 and I remember when I was late teens early 20s my local council used to have an "engaged couples" list. That's how one of my friends back then got a council flat.

Anna Dixon, John Grogan, Tracy Brabin who was the mayor of West Yorkshire plus many councillors refused to support an inquiry in to the Sexual Exploitation of young girls by grooming gangs.

There you wanted evidence of MPs knowing and covering it up. They were told it was happening and they looked the other way.

Im not arguing this point anymore. They knew and allowed it to continue for votes.

Dont think that i think the Tories are better - I don’t they are just as bad. But im sick to the back teeth of people happy that it’s Labour fucking us over - just because it’s not the Tories. They are all a bunch of rancid, rotten apples.

Anna Dixon, John Grogan, Tracy Brabin who was the mayor of West Yorkshire plus many councillors refused to support an inquiry in to the Sexual Exploitation of young girls by grooming gangs.

Evidence? The timescales don’t work anyway. Dixon only got elected this year and Brabin in 2016.

It certainly wasn't as hard to get council accommodation years ago. That's because there was an adequate supply of housing. What happened? How did it become almost impossible for councils to carry out their statutory obligations re housing? Right to buy. So people bought. Councils not permitted to spend money from the sales on replacing lost housing stock. Result? Tent cities.

They were Labour Parliamentary candidates at the time. Choosing to look the other way in order to get voted in.

The splitting hairs is pathetic

I doubt it. Brabin replaced Jo Cox in 2016, she was still engaged in her theatrical career until then and it was the only seat she ever applied for. Anna Dixon wasn’t even selected until 2022 and was a high flying civil servant based in London prior to that. Nice try, no cigar.

I would love nothing more than to be able to choose my own house in my own area and buy off the open market, 15 or 20 years ago I would have done and my salary would have got my a nice family home. If would make it a lot easier for me if I could and I wouldn't have to live here foreseeable future. Even with right to buy I would have been living here for at least the next 5 years until I could sell it and buy something bigger.

I am grateful and I know I am lucky but I don't have the beauty of choice over where I live and that's what I would really like.