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Posted Friday 4th October 2013 at 12.18pm
Help!
The help to buy scheme has to be the one of the most blatantly idiotic policies ever to exist. There are more damaging policies, for sure, but this one is definitely one of the most bafflingly ridiculous. From Mark Steel in the Independent:
Maybe other ministers have tried to explain to David Cameron the complicated mathematics around housing, looking him in the eye and saying slowly "If there are more people than fit in the houses, we need more houses". This is possible, as he appears to have the same difficulty with the issue of jobs, believing that if there are more people than jobs, you can get everyone into work by yelling "get a job" at people without one.
This means he’d be a fascinating man to have a game of musical chairs with. After the first chair was taken away, he’d inform everyone "I’ll make it easier for the chair agencies to sell the chairs that are left, then there’s no reason for anyone to be left without one."
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