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.

'Labour has always been against the right to buy'. Not true ! The 'right to buy' policy first appeared in Labour's 1959 General Election manifesto.

The Taylor swift concerts would have bought in LOADs for the economy

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What a load of fucking racist bollocks.

But unfortunately still allowed to vote

'Keir Starmer living rent free in No 10'! Did all the previous Prime Ministers pay rent then?

Angela Rayner was investigated by Manchester Police and was found to have done nothing wrong.

And loads to TS, and her encourage who budgeted for secure transport. Did TS & Co save £150k, right into their own pockets.

Are you saying that someone bought this and is renting it out or that the people living there bought it and are claiming housing benefit?

If it is the former, that is a good example of how right to buy reduces the amount of council properties and often ends up in the hands of private landlords.

If it's the latter, I doubt that the people who live there would qualify for a mortgage if none of them are working.

I worked from home with children under 5 - I just had to do it when they were asleep at night or dh was around. I was very lucky I'm in a profession that could accommodate this - but it's not an impossible scenario, although it does require a bit of organisation and coordination.

Also, unless you are stalking them, how do you know that they aren't working strange shift patterns?

We share a driveway and our front doors are right next to each other and we do chat sometimes plus I work from home occasionally so I do notice the comings and goings but no I'm not a stalker.

Yeah cos those who dont have living proof that they have had sex without contraception dont even deserve ONE bedroom 🙄

Sounds like you are suffering from jealousy of what some other people have. Your mother and your aunt will of had to pay bedroom tax for under-occupancy.
So you have a degree, you work, you are childless and saving, yet somehow you think your lot will be to just move to a bigger council house when you have DC's? Have you already met the man you plan to procreate with and know that between yo, you'll never earn enough to get your own place? If that's the case, you don't earn enough to be having DC's either maybe.
I don't blame people for buying under the scheme, it worked for them, though I am against the scheme ever having been in existence. But for the scheme, you might of not had to wait 6 years for a flat. However, interesting your default at 19 was to apply for a council home. Is it just because that's how your family got houses? Whereas, my default was to assume I'd buy at some point and my DS's I'd guess would be the same - though likely we'll in the future, not by 25.
Count your blessings maybe, you got provided somewhere cheap to rent as a single person at a relatively young age. That's not bad going these days, a lot will be 30 by the time living independently from parents occurs.Now you can save to buy in future as a choice, freeing up the flat when you do.

No because bedroom tax only applies if you don't work and claim housing benefit.

A lot of people don't work the system as well as you have, and get to move out by 25, so well done for that. You weren't homeless, and had a 3 bedroom house with your mum you could of chosen to stay in while saving. Your need is not desperate unless your DM was abusive or unbearable to live with.

I worked with a young man years ago. He bragged that he registered to live with his nan when he was 16. He never did, then age 21 he bought her council house for 30k (a gift from his parents). That house was worth at least 100k at the time. Nowadays nearer 300k.

He was delighted with himself.

That's right to buy for you.

Keir Starmer living rent free in No 10

This is such a laughable criticism that it can't be serious, even though the rest of the post did read as a serious complaint.

As far as I can remember the only requirement to join the housing list was living in shared accommodation which living with parents is classed as.

Keir Starmer living rent free in No 10.

It’s part of the PM’s remuneration package to help compensate for the entirely inadequate salary, Starmer claims less than his entitlement.

Never been a fan of the scheme - it’s outdated and unfair - plenty of private renters who haven’t benefited from subsidised rent with no entitlement to buy a property at a subsidised price who will be locked into paying extortionate rent forever with no hope of buying a property.

The rents aren’t subsidised. Local authorities that still own social housing have to maintain housing finances completely separately. Housing associations don’t receive any public funding to their rent account.

But this is an unusual definition of subsidy. They certainly are subsidised in the sense that a valuable income-generating asset is rented out at below market value. The local authority could make more money for the public good if the flat was rented out at its true value. There is a substantial "opportunity cost" in tying up public assets in this way.

Yes, but as @Opentooffers said, why was that almost your default? - You mentioned that you applied for council housing at 19 and remained on it until 25, when you got a council flat.

You must not even have finished your degree at 19.

At 25 she was apparently studying while working pt.

To be fair, while I don't agree with RTB, OP hasn't "worked the system" she wouldn't have been offered the property if there was somebody who needed it more at the time.