A supply which is being seriously diminished by professional buy-to-let landlords, who are then pushing up the price of the few houses which become available to buy. Fewer landlords = more houses available to buy, and thus lower prices.
One of the reasons NIMBYS in Tory shires oppose...
Another one? The NHS - and the rest of the public sector - has had repeated restructuring over the last 33 years (since the 'internal market' was introduced). There have been two main consequences.
1) Ever-increasing numbers and layers of accountants, business managers, 'change champions'...
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Presumably this would make many more houses available for renters to buy. Many renters cannot afford to do so currently, because so many homes are owned by private landlords. But of course, the housing shortage is blamed on immigrants.
I know of a landlord who rents-out 47 homes - to me...
Because desperate though I am to see this current shower of shite removed, I fear that Starmer's determination to distance himself and Labour from Corbynism - electorally understandable though that is - means that he is becoming Tory-lite. He abandons policies almost weekly in order to appeal to...
I agree. I despise Farage/UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform UK, but if they won seats in the House of Commons via PR, people could see how they responded and voted on non-immigration issues - tax evasion, re-nationalisation of railways, employment protection/rights, building affordable housing, public...