Boris Wants Benefits Claimants To Be Able To Buy Homes

[Hymie]

Do government ministers (and Boris) believe benefit claimants get so much money that they can afford to buy a house, or do they think houses cost of the order of £50k?

I know young people who have fairly well paid jobs, but have no chance of buying a house since mortgage companies will only lend around four times salary – and no house can be brought for less than £200k within a very long commute.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61739816

[Togo]

I think we were suggesting that you were.

[archibaldy]

This is only going to help a very low number of households total, so even if they all default it’ll only amount to a rounding error of all the other billions this government are wasting.

[Hymie]

Should Boris’s plans come to fruition, in 25 years time there will be benefit claimants who have been sponging off the State all their lives, who as a result are home-owners; whereas those who have been working all their adult life and paying tax, but unable to afford a mortgage, won’t be so fortunate.