Well, hats off to Shappsy for flushing out a few more f***wits. Over at The Daily Express, we inevitably get comments like this, posted by The_Boss at 03.01.11, 4:53pm:
Where do they get this type of low grade person from? How many homes does HE own??? With membership of the EU and uncontrolled immigration - never mind that IDIOT SHAMerCON wanting Turkey in the EU - home prices are set to go up.
It's not clear which of the two big Home-Owner-Ist lies The_Boss supports more:
a) That house price falls are A Bad Thing, and thus by reverse logic, that house price rises are A Good Thing, or
b) That the trebling of house prices between 1997 and 2007 was purely down to mass immigration.
Let's assume that b) were true, and further that the UK government were capable of adopting some National Socialist type measures to expel all people born abroad who came here since 1997. Further, let's assume that a) were true and that if the UK government expelled a few million people, house prices were to fall by half... would The_Boss still support these expulsions?
Or would The_Boss promptly resort to a third Home-Owner-Ist lie, namely that if all people born abroad were expelled, that the UK would suddenly become a much more desirable place to live (for whom, exactly, people living abroad?), in which case mass expulsions would lead to a further increase in house prices, thus directly contradicting lie b)?
Blow that whistle
5 hours ago
3 comments:
Disappointed in Philip Davies there. Yet another reason why I am glad I didn't vote Conservative at the General Election.
Not particularly disappointed with Shapps because I always had low expectations to start with. He is out of his depth with that brief. He is up against such strongly vested interests that he doesn't stand a chance really.
TM, what PD said is pol speak to the point of meaninglessness.
He might as well have said: "Prices may fall dramatically in the next 5 years but it’s unrealistic to expect people not to see houses as an investment."
Sharpy Shapps has also flushed out the Independent which has a very good leading article (Monday 3rd) warning that anti Homeownereist Tories need to think of some tax stick to go with their usual carrots.Including Ta ra ra ra Land value Tax.
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