But if they can’t pay temporarily, that’s another matter. And my main thrust was that this is a housing minister from a supposedly caring political party who make a lot of noise about how cruel and heartless other parties are.

Of course there is no right for people to buy a house; the problem is that for many people living with family or friends is not feasible. Many folks who’ve bought houses at stupidly high prices felt that they had no choice in the matter, as they may not have been able to get Council Housing (ever tried? It’s not easy.) Successive Labour Governments have seen housing prices go through teh roof and did nothing to attempt to control things, with the result that when the collapse did occur many people found themselves in the hole.

Thanks for commenting.

or let me guess, you think if you lose your job, you deserve a break. Maybe so, but not a break on a legal contract. Without the rule of law, there is no law. If you can’t afford the house you are in, you shouldn’t be in it. If you could never afford it, you shouldn’t have been allowed to buy it. The problem is that house prices are too high, and the average man can not afford the average house.

I can tell you are an ideal-world type socialist with good intentions and a kind heart, not a genuine working class socialist, or you would be attacking the fact that houses are out of reach of most working class people, and you would be glad to see numerous repossessions, as it would allow prices to fall and sensible hard working people to get on the property ladder.

Ask yourself, what have these people, whos houses are being reposessed, really losing? Their 10% deposit? Their 5% deposit, or maybe they got a 100% or a 125% mortgage prior to 2008 when anyone could, and they are losing nothing but crippling debt. This is why reposessions can be good for the individual as well as for society in general in the long term. If you are still in denial, fighting for the cause of the person who is losing their house due to financial difficulty, you may be thinking “no, they are losing their HOME which is sad”. Well you are wrong, they will get a new home, with parents, grandparents, friends, or even social housing. Society will catch them, having a home you can not afford is a burden, not a privelege and definately not a right.

The MP is actually speaking the truth. But soon his boss Gordon Brown will force him to retract the statement or resign, because this government want to brainwash people into socialist utopia thinking such as yours and maintain the status quo.