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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Reminds me of what the Bolsheviks did after they overthrew the Russian government.
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.
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.
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.
Well, they ain’t under Corbyn. At least not yet.
And this is a YouGov poll after all.
Confiscation for the common good.
What could go wrong?
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.
A.k.a. mobocracy.
A.k.a. Tyranny...
No wonder Britain has willingly let the muzzies take over. They have lost their balls and common sense.
Sort of like the U.S. considering most cities.
“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.
The left is always generous with other people’s stuff.
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.
Maybe every England thread should begin with “England Death Watch”.
Without the excess baggage though!
Those who rob Peter to pay Paul will always have Paul’s support.
I get yougov surveys as a member several times a week.
If they were any more slanted left, they’d almost be right :)
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.
Why not? It worked out so well when the Bolsheviks did it.
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