Brits slashing boats on French beaches

[CXRAndy]

How many have you stopped, Piggy?

I put resources where I hope to see the best outcomes

How's you offering a bed in your home to the poor illegal immigrants going?

 

[Xipe Totec]

I put resources where I hope to see the best outcomes

You must've spent half your fortune on roundabout paint by now.

How's you offering a bed in your home to the poor illegal immigrants going?

Why would I need to do that? The all get a free house, don't they?

 

[CXRAndy]

Not enough housing to go around hence hotels, miltary bases, hmo

 

[cookiemonster]

If your government won't do it, what alternatives are there?

Rejoining the EU and the Dublin Agreement perhaps?

That seemed to work before that treasonous Russian grifter Farage campaigned for Brexit then whined about a problem that he created.

 

[cookiemonster]

Not enough housing to go around hence hotels, miltary bases, hmo

Not enough housing because the UK hasn't built enough for 40 years or so since Thatcher sold off the housing stock.

 

[BoldonLad]

Not enough housing because the UK hasn't built enough for 40 years or so since Thatcher sold off the housing stock.

Did “selling off the housing stock” reduce the number of houses then?

 

[Pblakeney]

Did “selling off the housing stock” reduce the number of houses then?

It did reduce the number of affordable homes.

 

[CXRAndy]

Did “selling off the housing stock” reduce the number of houses then?

No, it just made people proud to own a their own home, instead of a lifetime of paying rent to councils.

 

[tarric]

Did “selling off the housing stock” reduce the number of houses then?

Yes, why would you build houses that you then had to sell for less than the cost of building them.

Councils used to build around 100,000 homes a year up till the right to buy, now they barely build enough to replace those sold or demolished. in 2023/24 the built just under 20,000 while just over 20,000 were sold or demolished that's one of the reasons we lack housing stock and lets be honest the private sector are not really interested in building low cost housing.

 

[CXRAndy]

Rejoining the EU and the Dublin Agreement perhaps?

That seemed to work before that treasonous Russian grifter Farage campaigned for Brexit then whined about a problem that he created.

No it didn't, the numbers deported were pitiful when in the EU.

We also had uncontrolled migration through free movement.

 

[CXRAndy]

Yes, why would you build houses that you then had to sell for less than the cost of building them.

Councils used to build around 100,000 homes a year up till the right to buy, now they barely build enough to replace those sold or demolished. in 2023/24 the built just under 20,000 while just over 20,000 were sold or demolished that's one of the reasons we lack housing stock and lets be honest the private sector are not really interested in building low cost housing.

Councils were selling old properties, cost peanuts compared to rent received and build cost

 

[Ian H]

Yes, why would you build houses that you then had to sell for less than the cost of building them.

Councils used to build around 100,000 homes a year up till the right to buy, now they barely build enough to replace those sold or demolished. in 2023/24 the built just under 20,000 while just over 20,000 were sold or demolished that's one of the reasons we lack housing stock and lets be honest the private sector are not really interested in building low cost housing.

The government of the time severely limited councils' ability to replace housing stock.

 

[cookiemonster]

No it didn't, the numbers deported were pitiful when in the EU.

We also had uncontrolled migration through free movement.

Free movement into the EU worked both ways. I know. I worked in France and Finland. Something denied to me now by that traitor Nigelovich Brexitoz.

 

[cookiemonster]

Did “selling off the housing stock” reduce the number of houses then?

It reduced the number available to rent hence the issue the UK has now.

 

[BoldonLad]

Yes, why would you build houses that you then had to sell for less than the cost of building them.

Councils used to build around 100,000 homes a year up till the right to buy, now they barely build enough to replace those sold or demolished. in 2023/24 the built just under 20,000 while just over 20,000 were sold or demolished that's one of the reasons we lack housing stock and lets be honest the private sector are not really interested in building low cost housing.

The sale price was discounted, based on the length of time the tenant had been a Council tenant. No reason to suppose that every sale was at less than build cost, and, some houses sold would have been built many years before sale.

I believe the money from the sale of Council Houses initially went to central Government, and, that at some point, this was changed so that it went to the local authority (I could be wrong). It would seem reasonable to assume that local councils could build houses more cheaply that commercial developers (no nasty profits to be made, no greedy shareholders to appease). Recent events suggest this is not so, according to Private Eye.