O/T - general election 2019

[WanChaiMiller]

Kerr just to tidy a few things up.

My reply was to Animal. The comment 'Victorian Britain' was to let him know my reply was linking to his post which he signed off 'This is 2019 not Victorian Britain' - my agreement was to the comments he made in that post.* So jump in by all means but please get the context right.

Having missed the point of my meaning 'Victorian Britain', pretty much all of what you say home ownership and house price inflation*has no relevance to my post.* We can have a different debate based on your post by all means.* I was commenting on rents for former council houses (and specically that now these are in private ownership tenants pay inflated commercial rates - I know commerial rates are based on the price of housing; my contention is that rents would not have gone up at commercial rates if council houses had remained in state ownership).

You either didnt grasp what I said or deliberately spun it to suit your take on history. I know my writing is not great but please lets have a debate on what intended to say and not on what you think I meant.

[KerrAvon]

Kerr just to tidy a few things up.

My reply was to Animal. The comment 'Victorian Britain' was to let him know my reply was linking to his post which he signed off 'This is 2019 not Victorian Britain' - my agreement was to the comments he made in that post.* So jump in by all means but please get the context right.

Having missed the point of my meaning 'Victorian Britain', pretty much all of what you say home ownership and house price inflation*has no relevance to my post.* We can have a different debate based on your post by all means.* I was commenting on rents for former council houses (and specically that now these are in private ownership tenants pay inflated commercial rates - I know commerial rates are based on the price of housing; my contention is that rents would not have gone up at commercial rates if council houses had remained in state ownership).

You either didnt grasp what I said or deliberately spun it to suit your take on history. I know my writing is not great but please lets have a debate on what intended to say and not on what you think I meant.

Well I have to admit to now not having a clue what you meant when you said I agree with [animal] totally on 2019 Victorian Britain... It’s an odd thing to say if you were not in agreement with him ‘totally on 2019 Victorian Britain’ and were actually talking about the rest of his post and not that specific comment.

If it’s the case that it was just animal being silly then fair enough.

You were talking about many things other than council house rents, but I’m happy to address the point that you make. Your contention that council rents would not have gone up at commercial rates if council houses had remained in state ownership is pure speculation. Assuming that you are right, however, what you are actually saying is that you believe that the tenants of those house would have had their housing costs subsidised by the state in the form of a discount on commercial rents. That’s hardly fair on tenants in private rented accommodation who receive no such support from the taxpayer is it?

Of course, people on low incomes receive state support with housing costs – in the form of housing and other benefits - irrespective of whether they are in Local Authority or private rented accommodation.

The bottom line is that housing costs have increased because insufficient houses have been built to match the growth in the number of households.