The Labour Government

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

In Poynton there are not enough bungalows to meet demand. It has one of the largest retired communities in Cheshire. On my road 2 bed bungalows are the same price as the 3 bed semis facing them.

Always been the case

 

[hilts]

If only Kirstie & Phil were blues:-)

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Have agreed a lot with you in this thread, but not this. It is totally wrong to expect people who have worked hard to pay for their own place to simply move. Emotional attachment for older people is high as well as knowing the area they live.

As you get older, change is more difficult to take, and they should be under no pressure at all to move

I'll be hitting 70 in three years and I cannot think of anything worse than feeling obliged to move

Bingo

 

[Kompany Car]

Them Scot’s are going to run out of band names if they want to add more…

The bit in the middle band
The bit just after the bit in the middle band

Band names aside it looks a bit more “progressive” than ours.

 

[Kompany Car]

Is it possible to buy one for less than the sale price of a two or three bedroom house?

A small 1.5 bed bungalow takes up a larger land footprint than that of a 3 bed semi.

The building costs whilst being part of the equation are in many areas significantly less than the cost of the land.

 

[Gabriel]

In the months leading to the General Election, Labour ran a tight but safe campaign, one light on radical policy and one lacking any bold vision, certainly compared to 1997. That was understandable, I suppose, because they had been through a rapid rebuild and didn't want to alienate voters. However, it also gave rise to the suspicion that they were keeping their powder dry and would unveil the bigger ideas once in power, with the first 100 days pivotal. Yet nothing genuinely big materialised, and instead all that's really been heard since is that things were economically worse than anticipated. Again, all understandable because that was what the Conservatives had done in 2010 and that message wormed its way into the public memory. The summer months have now passed but Starmer's Conference speech today hasn't revealed much more either; will the big ideas come with the first budget? Are there actually any?

 

[blueparrot]

Band names aside it looks a bit more “progressive” than ours.

Well there’s loads of prog band names they can use., no problem there.
Sorry wrong thread ;)

 

[TinFoilHat]

According to the Daily Heil Labour are going to:

Cut pub opening hours
Tax your fags and fuel to price you out buying any as part of the green vegan woke agenda
Replace rapists and murderers with meme creators in prisons
Allow the country to be taken over by Sharia Law
Make the BBC licence fee and official tax and double the cost

Any I've missed?

 

[Chippy_boy]

According to the Daily Heil Labour are going to:

Cut pub opening hours
Tax your fags and fuel to price you out buying any as part of the green vegan woke agenda
Replace rapists and murderers with meme creators in prisons
Allow the country to be taken over by Sharia Law
Make the BBC licence fee and official tax and double the cost

Any I've missed?

No, I think you've summed it up pretty accurately.

 

[Kompany Car]

You aren't obliged to move other than by circumstances. Everybody is attached to their home, including renters who have to frequently move and have to work very hard to pay someone else 50% of their take home.

Old people knocking around houses that are too big for them, that they can't afford to heat and need alterations just to get around and into (alterations which they won't neccesarily fund themselves) isn't a good use of a finite amount of housing. Which might be better used to house a young couple starting a family.

As others have pointed out young couples wouldn’t have the money to buy the big houses. Even two people earning 40k per year can only borrow around £320k and that’s only 40k above the median house price in the UK. In London and the SE you can add another 160k to 300k on that.