Multinational forced to pay some tax

[Notch7]

Nobody has a solution to the problem other than Mister Market. When people stop buying houses, the prices, as if by magic, will fall, and the banks will suddenly stop requiring deposits and interest rates will fall.

Rinse and repeat.

there are solutions to the problem:

1) mass council house building programme
2) Land Value Tax
3) regulation of mortgages so they are more like America, rather than the way the U.K. mortgage lenders put all the risk on the mortgage borrower

 

[Notch7]

There is of course no such policy. We have a growing population, people are living longer and a trend of people wanting to live fewer numbers to a home. Do you think that might have something to do with it?

there was such a policy

5,804,150 council houses were built between 1946 and 1979

The number of births per year in the UK was high (above 850,000) from the mid-1950s up until the early 1970s: the 1960s' baby boom



political will

 

[gas112]

there are solutions to the problem:

1) mass council house building programme

Do pray tell where these tradesmen for the mass building are going to come from their is already a shortage of all tradesmen

 

[JohnD]

Do pray tell where these tradesmen for the mass building are going to come from their is already a shortage of all tradesmen

There were even fewer in 1948.

But the nation decided to build homes

And schools

And hospitals

And did.

 

[JohnD]

There is of course no such policy.

Selling off all the best social housing to a lucky minority, at half price, and forbidding local authorities to build replacements, was part of the policy.

Go on, try and tell us it didn't happen.

 

[motorbiking]

there are solutions to the problem:

1) mass council house building programme
2) Land Value Tax
3) regulation of mortgages so they are more like America, rather than the way the U.K. mortgage lenders put all the risk on the mortgage borrower

You want a scheme where the "owner" can hand back the property because it falls in value and then buy it back at a lower price, with savers footing the bill? Not much incentive to ever be anything other than debt ridden.

 

[motorbiking]

Selling off all the best social housing to a lucky minority, at half price, and forbidding local authorities to build replacements, was part of the policy.

Go on, try and tell us it didn't happen.

You said there was a policy, a "deliberate policy" - yet provide no evidence to this deliberate policy. Were you telling fibs? I think we know the answer.

 

[gas112]

There were even fewer in 1948.

But the nation decided to build homes

And schools

And hospitals

And did.

Think you will find that loads of houses built were prefabs that served a purpose for about 20 years till there was enough tradesmen trained to build proper housing ,
But your none answer hasnt said where you think these tradesmen are coming from for the mass housing programme .
Their is already a scandal in this country at the standard of work being carried out on new builds due to 6 week /6 months tradesmen

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"In the first decade after the Second World War, nearly 500,000 permanent homes were built using some form of prefabrication.

Prefab housing estates were often built on bomb sites, some of which were cleared and prepared by Italian and German prisoners of war."

 

[gas112]

Selling off all the best social housing to a lucky minority, at half price, and forbidding local authorities to build replacements, was part of the policy.

Go on, try and tell us it didn't happen.

the lucky minority ? how do you work out that it was lucky for normal working class people to pay less each week for a mortgage than it was in rent . Common sense that people would reduce their out goings and actually have something to show for it

 

[Mottie]

And today we have HMOs.

And revenge evictions.

We also have minimum standards for rented accommodation so let’s not try to pretend things have got worse.

 

[Mottie]

the U.K. mortgage lenders put all the risk on the mortgage borrower

Eh? So they should. It’s called responsible lending. You want someone else to take the risk other than the borrower? Ok. I’ll have a million pound mortgage please.

 

[motorbiking]

That wont work, what about a system where instead of you borrowing money you can't afford and the saver taking the risk. The saver could buy the house and let you live in it for, say a monthly fee.

 

[Brigadier]

Their is already a scandal in this country at the standard of work being carried out on new builds due to 6 week /6 months tradesmen

It's down to far more than the bloke on the trowel.

 

[Brigadier]

the lucky minority ? how do you work out that it was lucky for normal working class people to pay less each week for a mortgage than it was in rent

Because getting a government-subsided half-price house was only an option for a "lucky minority".

 

[JohnD]

the lucky minority ?

Yes

What proportion of the population do you think were lucky enough to be given a half-pricd house?