Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
They didn't have to buy the house , they chose to buy it

My view is that council houses should never be up for sale and those offered them should refuse to buy them

Then , when they pass on , the house goes back to the council to offer another person or persons low rent housing

Thus we have a supply of housing for those who need it at low rented cost

If houses are sold they are lost forever and mostly never replaced

The individual circumstances of why people buy council homes are irrelevant

It's as simple as that
Who are you from a distance of nearly half a century to label my parents “greedy and selfish gits” and “as bad as Thatcher”? If you’ve got to apportion blame, it’s got to be at those bodies with authority to give the green light to council and social housing schemes that created the situation whereby not enough of them are being built to satisfy demand. You’re effectively saying that my parents should have decided back in the mid 70s, that they wouldn’t take up what was a once in a lifetime opportunity for them because they knew that successive Governments and local Governments in the coming decades would create a situation where the country is crying out for social and council housing - that’s ludicrous.