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59% agree with Corbyn's proposal to take empty, private properties off owners to house fire victims
Business Insider UK ^ | June 17, 2017 | Lianna Brinded

Posted on 06/17/2017 7:49:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said empty properties in the surrounding area of the Grenfell Tower should be requisitioned for victims of the fire.

• A third of 5,321 adults said that they strongly support the proposal.
• 26% said they tend to support Corbyn's proposal, bringing the total to 59% in agreement.
• Corbyn's approach to the fire, which has so far killed 30 people and injured dozens of others, has been heralded by the public....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: britain; corbyn; fire; grenfell; socialism; uk; yougov
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminds me of what the Bolsheviks did after they overthrew the Russian government.


21 posted on 06/17/2017 8:35:38 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There were roughly 120 families in the Tower, and you can figure that at least ten of them didn’t make it out. So in his seizure plan....it’s a small footprint at this point. The law that would have to be used....compensates the owner. I would make a humble guess that a number of these are small units used by people Monday through Friday, and they return to their’real’ home on weekends.

The idea of empty residences only exist in terms of being up for sale or for new rentals. One thing to remember, the Tower was a controlled rent type situation and these properties that might be empty....would normally rent for 30-to-100 percent more than what those people were used to. The gov’t would have to compensate and cover that difference. This would turn into an awful expensive government ‘charity’seizure.


22 posted on 06/17/2017 8:38:00 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: BenLurkin

England is a bit esoteric on some things, It’s not guaranteed they pay fair market value because they’re indicating that it’s just temporary. I wonder how many are owned by banks with defunct mortgages. I think this is a rather low-brow area and with a lot of empty warehouses.


23 posted on 06/17/2017 8:38:20 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: silverleaf
1917 and the bolsheviks are on the rise Time to watch Dr Zhivago again

Even better is to read the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. He knew and experienced the hell of socialism and communism. He was a great man. He as George Orwell warned us. We should have listened.

24 posted on 06/17/2017 8:39:14 PM PDT by cpdiii ( Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, they ain’t under Corbyn. At least not yet.

And this is a YouGov poll after all.


25 posted on 06/17/2017 8:39:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Confiscation for the common good.

What could go wrong?


26 posted on 06/17/2017 8:40:19 PM PDT by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I first read about this, there was a reference to “luxury flats” nearby that weren’t occupied. Wonder how long they would last as “luxury flats” with council housing types living in them.


27 posted on 06/17/2017 8:40:30 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Redmen4ever
unrestricted democracy

A.k.a. mobocracy.

A.k.a. Tyranny...

28 posted on 06/17/2017 8:41:25 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No wonder Britain has willingly let the muzzies take over. They have lost their balls and common sense.


29 posted on 06/17/2017 8:48:13 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: cpdiii
Outside of London and the major metropolitian areas it still is.

Sort of like the U.S. considering most cities.

30 posted on 06/17/2017 8:49:56 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Repeat Offender
The war of independence was not about rejecting monarchy per se. The majority chose a republic instead for the sake of religious freedom (what with kings in Europe being responsible to a politically-active clergy), and the amount of power the federal government was to hold (especially its executive branch) was strictly limited so as to allow the states to retain their sovereign powers.

Not that there were never elected kings (versus dynasties) even with limited terms; those existed in antiquity also.

Not to mention, the government after the Second Coming is going to be a monarchy.
31 posted on 06/17/2017 8:49:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: cpdiii

“I fear we are nearing the end of the grand experiment as a Republic Democracy and descending into the hell of pure democracy.”

Or worse. When we have people on the so called ‘right’ repeating the left’s talking points that ‘we are a democracy’, it’s hard to hold out much hope.

“The Venezuelan Constitution was based on our United States Constitution.”

I didn’t know that....

Scary times indeed.


32 posted on 06/17/2017 9:02:38 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Jonty30

The left is always generous with other people’s stuff.


33 posted on 06/17/2017 9:11:26 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: cpdiii

The Gulag Archipelago is one of the most powerful indictments of Communism ever written. It has been very influential in my political development (such as it is)

I rank it right up there with Orwell’s “1984”, even more chilling and terrible in some ways because...it was all true.

The third work (for me) in this troika is Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness”. I found that most powerful, because one of the most difficult thing in my experience is that a person heavily invested in a lie will rarely change their mind, even in the face of overwhelming proof. That has been a very difficult thing for me to accept, but the reason “Witness” has been so powerful for me is that Chambers did that, fully and completely. And it was his search for God that led him to finally and utterly reject Communism.


34 posted on 06/17/2017 9:11:49 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals are in a state of constant cognitive dissonance, which explains their mental instability.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe every England thread should begin with “England Death Watch”.


35 posted on 06/17/2017 9:32:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: cpdiii

Without the excess baggage though!


36 posted on 06/17/2017 9:35:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those who rob Peter to pay Paul will always have Paul’s support.


37 posted on 06/17/2017 9:36:52 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: Olog-hai

I get yougov surveys as a member several times a week.

If they were any more slanted left, they’d almost be right :)


38 posted on 06/17/2017 9:37:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Jonty30

If I had vacant property I didn’t intend on using in the near future and there were people in my neighborhood who are now homeless and lost everything I would have no problem offering them shelter. I don’t see how government can force it nor should they be able to, but suggestion and appealing isn’t out of line imo.


39 posted on 06/17/2017 11:56:05 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why not? It worked out so well when the Bolsheviks did it.


40 posted on 06/18/2017 12:32:47 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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