by Rimshot » Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:32 pm
You're right Posh, we too lived in a council house as a family of five and it was seen as a sensible and respectable option for working class people. Appalling policies like creating 'people dumps' with all the problem families deposited in the same estate contributed towards the problem you now describe and, I'm afraid, a succession of photo-opps for Tory politicians smugly handing over the keys of sold-off housing stock. Places , incidentally, that they would n't have lived in if they had been paid to .
The ownership of land is a major issue here but of course when such a lot of it belongs to those nice people like the Royal family, The Duke of Westminster and the church commissioners it is all too delicate to broach.
The construction industry is in dire straits, the ownership of land is preposterously skewed towards inherited estates and there are lots of people out of work. There are answers here so glaringly obvious that even a fool could see them. What's lacking is any kind of political will to challenge the status quo. While we retain the monarchy and the trailing entrails of aristocracy which survives upon the same arcane premise that there is a natural 'ruling class' , nothing will change.
Most property ownership, historically, is the product of theft, invasion and war, later legitimised by the victor's judiciary.