This morning the BBC are trumpeting "Extra help for first-time buyers", and reporting breathlessly that "The government is to announce new measures to encourage first-time buyers and key workers to participate in its affordable housing schemes.
There will be £1,500 grants to help qualifying buyers with costs such as solicitors' charges and furniture."
Wow, that is impressive. Now the BBC know that most visitors to their news web site only read the headlines and if they do click through to a story look at the first couple of paragraphs and move on. I am not a usual visitor, so here is some more information not to be found in the first two paragraphs...
This help is limited - "enough for 2,000 people." So not a huge boost to the system then...
"The grants are to run in conjunction with a part-buy scheme offered to key workers and certain first-time buyers." SO it's a small boost to an existing scheme that is only available to key workers (nurses, police etc.) and other certain first-time buyers (presumably members of the Labour party).
The BBC go on to quote the great Leader himself "Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say: "By offering new grants and sharing a stake in their home, we are making the dream of a new home more affordable for thousands of low-income first-time buyers and key workers such as nurses and teachers."" Oh thank you Great Gordon for allowing such bounty to fall from your table to enrich the lives of us poor people, "gawd bless you sir".
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Note that all these initiatives over the years have been designed to help unionised Labour-voting public sector people only, or predominantly (where it hasn't been possible to separate them out exclusively).
It is generally a con, and is dressed up in artificial terms. I sussed this out when substituting on a Scrutiny Committee, here in Medway, about eighteen months ago. I wrote about one aspect of it that occurred to me then HERE.
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