Spotted by Richard Allan in The Evening Standard:
The family of a grandmother who was "waterboarded" and scalded by masked raiders spoke today of how the horrific attack has destroyed her life "sheer hell".
Françoise Jansen thought she was going to die when two masked men broke into her £7 million home on the St George's Hill Estate near Weybridge and ordered her to open a safe...
It's never clear to me why the potential selling price of the house is relevant, but assuming it is, does the fact that somebody lives in such an expensive house make it more likely or less likely that they will become victims of crime? Is the sub-text that it serves her right because such houses are magnets for burglars, or is the subtext that it serves her right for not living in a nicer area?
Which all highlights yet another advantage of Land Value Tax; little old ladies would not be living on their own in giant houses like this (picture taken from The Daily Mail's version of the story):
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
"Horror in suburbia"
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Well, this LOL might well just be living in this house under LVT - she sounds to be pretty wealthy to me, and good luck to her. Plus. likely as not, the 'value (ho ho) of her house might well come down quite a bit (good).
I think it's just background detail, like giving the victim's age, which is another fairly irrelevant detail usually supplied. It's also to show she's rich, similarly they'd probably mention if she lived in a council house to show she was poor.
Bob Crow lives in a council house, and he's far from poor.
L, I doubt she'd be able to afford full-on LVT, not on a £9 million house which her husband presumably bought for a tenth of that a couple of decades ago.
B, maybe, but with the Mail, price of house is usually in the first couple of sentences.
SB, which is why he's such a hate figure for the Home-Owner-Ists, he refuses to conform to type.
"price of house is usually in the first couple of sentences."
Yeah, and age is usually in the first one.
SB, I am talking stereotypes, and Daily Fail stereotypes at that.
Hate figure for me too. Which is why I worry about your support for him.
SB, hate is such a strong word.
As a taxpayer and commuter, I'm distinctly underwhelmed by his occasional strikes; as a free market liberal, I think he does an excellent job for his members and is paid accordingly; as an anti Home-Owner-Ist, I applaud his brave choice of housing (he could have gone with the flow and bought his council house for half price, what good does that do anybody?).
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