Ignoring the fact that many second home owners have worked hard and paid tax all their lives, what is grossly unfair is to expect the working taxpayer to fund the bone idle, workshy, responsibility-avoiding lowlife who are assigned council housing generation after generation as if it is a God-given right to expect to be housed all their lives for feck all. Time to put a cap on council tenancies for life for those who make no attempt to gain employment and actually pay their own way. Perhaps then we could actually give housing to those who are in dire need. How many council estates are there up and down the country where unemploy(ed/able) Mum and Dad live a few doors away from single-parent daughter and, a few doors down from that, scrote son and his 'bidey-in'. All on benefits having never worked a day in their lives and having no intention of ever doing so.
Make these people prove they are actively seeking employment or else withdraw their benefits AND their so-called RIGHT to council housing.
Move someone in who actually deserves help instead.
And, before anyone says it, the above is not some crud read in the newspapers or seen on TV, it is a reality based on decades of working in these areas.
BTW - Same goes for those on high incomes who can clearly afford a mortgage but choose not to. Kick them out.
Time we stopped having a go at certain sections of society who worked hard all their lives and never claimed a bean from The State yet are castigated because they have 'bettered themselves'. Lots of those people with second homes are pensioners who paid tax on their wages and are now paying tax on their pensions.
The only time the great unwashed come across tax is when they want to hold down a carpet (which they got 'off the back of a lorry')
