re: Elderly people in the UK being told their houses are too big for them & they need to sell

colonization..sucks to be on the other end of it.

I posted about this on the poli board. Why is the property considered un-used? This isn't a new or uncommon regulation (Even here)

I’m not sincerely doubting there’s an ulterior motive but it read more to me like they’re trying to patch up blight. Being in Shreveport I can sincerely relate to this issue as we have tons of people with inherited properties who don’t keep them up and they attract tons of crime. I’m not familiar with English property standards but the picture in the article looks 100x better than the shitholes in my town that the gubmint never bats an eye at. Again, not saying there isn’t some seedy business going on her but naturally Stout has made his own headline to fit his alarmist attitude.

That sounds like something the Democrat/liberal/pedophiles/fruits here want.

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This is why you never give up your firearms and disarm the public

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Yeah. How’d those COVID lockdowns go pussy?

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I’m not sincerely doubting there’s an ulterior motive but it read more to me like they’re trying to patch up blight. Being in Shreveport I can sincerely relate to this issue as we have tons of people with inherited properties who don’t keep them up and they attract tons of crime. I’m not familiar with English property standards but the picture in the article looks 100x better than the shitholes in my town that the gubmint never bats an eye at. Again, not saying there isn’t some seedy business going on her but naturally Stout has made his own headline to fit his alarmist attitude.

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This- The article says that the letter was a mistake, and that the council issued an apology. There could be ulterior motives, but I kinda doubt it.

This is the reason Americans will never give up their guns

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This- The article says that the letter was a mistake, and that the council issued an apology. There could be ulterior motives, but I kinda doubt it

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I wonder how many in this thread actually read the article.

Anyway, I doubt it too. This English community has laws on the books that attempt to hold property owners accountable for their blighted real estate and as a last resort, pull out the big guns and threaten seizure. There are cities all over the United States that do the same and rightly so.

Now the bullshite about letting illegals live in these properties once seized, well that's a different matter. But what they do with seized property, whether auction it off, like here in the states or manage it for immigrants is up to them.

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I wonder how many in this thread actually read the article.

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Yeah, just reading the letter made it seem like it was targeted at long vacant or blighted properties - not houses they deemed too big for people.

But…. On the flip side…

I suppose a controlling entity with ulterior motives could stretch the definition of blight in an effort to force a sale of some kind. Similar to the way local governments have blurred the definition of imminent domain in an order to gain control of a property.


However, I didn’t see anything in the letter or article that alluded to such shenanigans.