By Harry Scoffin In what is likely to be James Brokenshire’s final housing questions, the shadow housing secretary used the Communities Secretary’s “swan song session” yesterday to slam the government for being “too slow, too weak” on the leasehold scandal. While welcoming the ongoing Competition and Markets Authority leasehold inquiry, John Healey also took aim […]
Seize ‘golden opportunity’ offered by Help To Buy 2021 to end taxpayer-funded spread of toxic leasehold, urges Tory MP Crispin Blunt
Let’s be Blunt, Mr Brokenshire … Witness what MP Crispin Blunt from Surrey has to say No time for mincing words No time for wasting taxpayers’ money And certainly no time for land inequality By Harry Scoffin In the run-up to last Thursday’s announcement that future leasehold houses and monetary ground rents on flats are […]
Tory maverick MP Crispin Blunt is urged to back Help To Buy ONLY on commonhold
By Harry Scoffin Conservative MP Crispin Blunt is being urged to throw his weight behind an LKP-backed proposal to make state support for developers contingent on selling ALL new-build flats as commonhold or share of freehold. The appeal to a Tory backbencher who has characterised leasehold tenure as an “arcane feudal system” may have resonance […]
Views of Tory MP Crispin Blunt: Government should ‘nullify’ ground rents. End ‘feudal’ leasehold. Bring in commonhold. And stop developers’ and solicitors’ ‘unconscionable’ cheating of the naïve
A fulsome denunciation of the present rip-off leasehold system has been made in the starkest Corbynista terms … by Tory MP Crispin Blunt, who represents leafy Reigate, in non-leasehold Surrey. He says: “Present-day “onerous ground rents” are, more likely than not, the resultant of unconscionable conduct carried out by one sector of society who have […]
