tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1344667267699234008..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Tories' Housing CrisisPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-85086410372650769032022-11-27T15:19:26.022+00:002022-11-27T15:19:26.022+00:00«the Tories have been political asset stripping fo...«<i>the Tories have been political asset stripping for a long time.</i>»<br /><br />Crucially they (and New Labour and the LibDem) have have been careful to asset strip people who can;t vote (immigrants), don't vote or anyhow don't vote for them, mostly Labour voters who work and wanmt to buy or rent a place to sleep in.<br /><br />«<i>Once the assets are stripped, that's it.</i>»<br /><br />Unfortunately from an economic view asset stripping can still go on for a while, dickensian conditions like this are still relatively rare, many more people can contribute to "the economy" bay paying 10 rents for a studio flat:<br /><br />https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/v3uks9/renters_squeezed_by_higher_housing_costs_and/ib1egjz/<br />“I once worked with a Pole. He was the senior developer on my team. He said when he came to the UK he started as a builder and lived <b>in a studio flat with 10 other eastern european immigrants</b>, all working on the same site as him. Grim.”<br /><br />Up until WW2 a lot more than today lived in crumbling tiny tenements paying huge per-sqft rents. This can come back again for the benefit of the rentiers.Blisssexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-50658140001430960472022-11-27T15:13:23.200+00:002022-11-27T15:13:23.200+00:00«But this cannot last forever if an electoral coal...«<i>But this cannot last forever if an electoral coalition dependent on the old isn't reproducing itself. And it's not. The breakdown of property acquisition spells Tory doom.</i>»<br /><br />I suspect that our blogger is rather underestimating the effect of property inheritance in maintaining the numbers of a large vested interest group of parasitical rentiers; their numbers will shrink indeed because wage-only first-time buyers are becoming rarer, but they will not disappear, as the heirs of today's tory voters already (bank of mum and dad) get a "leg up" as to deposits from their family wealth.<br /><br />Regardless the risks are for Conservative party as such, as long as the main opposition party also sees affluent tory parasites as their core constituency overall policies will not change, here is Peter Mandelson on the core electoral strategy of New Labour (and of New, New Labour):<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/opinion/peter-mandelson-why-labour-lost-the-election.html<br />“British elections are won in the center ground inhabited by a good 15 percent of the population who do not necessarily lean left or right. Those people want to be convinced of a party’s leadership, economic competence and sense of fair play. If a party aims its policies at only one section of the electorate, this will not be sufficient for victory. You have to be able to draw voters from the center to your side, especially in a campaign’s final days.”<br /><br />Of course that mythical 15% of "centrist" (and of course "aspirational") dads and moms are actually propertied tories, and will only vote for a thatcherite party, whether "progressive" or "conservative" thatcherite. That is not going to change anytime soon.Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-14220457122870261342022-11-26T12:36:45.642+00:002022-11-26T12:36:45.642+00:00As someone who has written about the misuse of “re...As someone who has written about the misuse of “refute”, and as someone who has given the nod to French intellectuals from time to time, I find it surprising that you carelessly throw in “existential” to describe the problem which the Tories face.<br />In my head, I can see JPS exclaiming “Eh bien….” and proceeding at length to explain why this might not be a legitimate use of this concept.Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-56995890439138546452022-11-26T09:01:21.857+00:002022-11-26T09:01:21.857+00:00Yes, the Tories have been political asset strippin...Yes, the Tories have been political asset stripping for a long time. Once the assets are stripped, that's it. All those state properties and industries sold off - sovereignty gone for real, not that fantasy sovereignty that is subsumed in Trade deals. They have become a criminal gang.Robert Dysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05512326175916762262noreply@blogger.com