Grenfell rehousing

[vetran]

No you clearly don't get my point about the NHS otherwise you wouldn't have written -"Do they not have NHS facilities in Westminster?"

The NHS is a complete postcode lottery on what is locally available, and even worse than that your treatment depends on the luck of getting the right health professionals around you. Moving to a different London borough, even one next door, means you will lose all of those you have carefully and luckily been able to find that makes your life worth living if you have a disability or long term illness. Until you yourself find or you have family in that situation then you will find out what I mean.

Also how was the Corporation of London able to buy a block of flats in the borough to house some of the residents? In other words there is building work going on there so more homes will be built in due course.

they might if they are lucky find better healthcare professionals in Westminster.

[BrilloPad]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y-unacceptable

Names emerged in a list detailing the council tax information of the vacant homes and their 1,197 owners. This appeared to have been sent accidentally by the council to multiple recipients, including the Guardian.

[original PM]

Erm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.

We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.

[MrMarkyMark]

Erm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.

We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.

And obviously there should have been massive taxes collected when exchange of ownership took place.

Shouldn't there

[original PM]

And obviously there should have been massive taxes collected when exchange of ownership took place.

Shouldn't there

Look if proper process has not been followed when these things were bought that is an issue that needs to be addressed.

But it is not acceptable to say 'oh that guy has something I want and he is not using it so i have a right to have it'

[MrMarkyMark]

Look if proper process has not been followed when these things were bought that is an issue that needs to be addressed.

But it is not acceptable to say 'oh that guy has something I want and he is not using it so i have a right to have it'

You missed my point, I certainly didn't say it was.

The government was happy to collect what it could from the sales stamp duty wise.

Obviously in a lot of cases they didn't.

[SueEllen]

Erm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.

We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.

The problem in this country there isn't enough housing being built so there is not enough rented out.

This outrage can be compared to Londoners buying holiday homes in the West Country and Norfolk, were they are empty for 40-46 weeks of the year and the local working people struggling to rent homes in the locality let alone afford to buy them.

[SueEllen]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y-unacceptable

Names emerged in a list detailing the council tax information of the vacant homes and their 1,197 owners. This appeared to have been sent accidentally by the council to multiple recipients, including the Guardian.

The media do some digging and pass information to taxmen in various countries.

HMRC then goes after some of the individuals and being completely useless gets a few hundred pounds back, while the taxman in Spain/France/[put in country of your choice] gets a few hundred thousand to a million back.

[SueEllen]

Just a thought.

If you were this guy:

Among the empty properties is the former Brompton Road tube station building, vacant since it was bought for £53m by the Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash in 2014. He is fighting extradition to the US.

Would your wife be working on the refurbishment of that?

[xoggoth]

Erm I am confused as to why anyone thinks that because someone has bought a house and it is empty that someone else who has not bought the house has any right to question that.

We are not in a socialist/communist state and so property is not theft.

I ain't exactly one of CUK's lefties but I would question the idea that scarce resources should be held simply as investments and largely unused. Wealth should be a reward for merit in a free market and investment in those things that improve the real economy.