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Nick Boles, Conservative MP, Planning minister and complete arsehole, claims that the elderly are responsible for the housing crisis. The "crisis" which many commentators and contributors to the comments sections of the Mail, the Telegraph and yes even the Huffington Post, argue does not exist and is in fact no more than a sinister left wing plot created to destabilise the government and create alarm amongst the people.
Clearly, Boles is out of step with that analysis.
We should perhaps take some comfort in the knowledge that the housing crisis has nothing to do with years of neglect by successive governments and their collective failure to address the problem of affordable housing. Moreover, since Thatcher decreed that building of "social housing" was to be terminated and that existing stocks should wherever possible be sold off at massively discounted prices to their existing tenants. (not that this in itself is an evil crime, but when coupled with the directive that no new social housing shall be built,) the conditions for a worsening housing shortage are set.
The housing crisis is caused by the lack of homes available either for sale or rent, not by elderly people living longer.
(Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford Nick Boles was educated at Winchester, Magdalen College Oxford, JFK School of Government at Harvard University. Boles has called for amongst other things, an end to winter fuel payments, free prescriptions, free bus travel and free TV licences for better-off pensioners from 2015; Boles has also claimed expenses for Hebrew lessons, which the Daily Mail and the Taxpayers' Alliance stated was so he could talk to his civil partner)
Elderly More To Blame For Housing Crisis Than Immigrants
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Planning Minister Nick Boles
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Nick Boles, Conservative MP, Planning minister and complete arsehole, claims that the elderly are responsible for the housing crisis. The "crisis" which many commentators and contributors to the comments sections of the Mail, the Telegraph and yes even the Huffington Post, argue does not exist and is in fact no more than a sinister left wing plot created to destabilise the government and create alarm amongst the people.
Clearly, Boles is out of step with that analysis.
We should perhaps take some comfort in the knowledge that the housing crisis has nothing to do with years of neglect by successive governments and their collective failure to address the problem of affordable housing. Moreover, since Thatcher decreed that building of "social housing" was to be terminated and that existing stocks should wherever possible be sold off at massively discounted prices to their existing tenants. (not that this in itself is an evil crime, but when coupled with the directive that no new social housing shall be built,) the conditions for a worsening housing shortage are set.
The housing crisis is caused by the lack of homes available either for sale or rent, not by elderly people living longer.
(Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford Nick Boles was educated at Winchester, Magdalen College Oxford, JFK School of Government at Harvard University. Boles has called for amongst other things, an end to winter fuel payments, free prescriptions, free bus travel and free TV licences for better-off pensioners from 2015; Boles has also claimed expenses for Hebrew lessons, which the Daily Mail and the Taxpayers' Alliance stated was so he could talk to his civil partner)
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