[Diggers350] Housing bubble behind the 'cost of living crisis , yet Labour's LGT could stop millions of owners passing homes on
Tony Gosling
tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Mon May 23 11:50:46 BST 2022
Pay No Rent! How to permanently fix the UKs cost of living crisis
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May 2022 <https://tlio.org.uk/author/tony/>Tony
Gosling
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Whats really behind the cost of living crisis?
BRISTOL 18May22 by Tony Gosling The cost of
living crisis meme is being circulated by the
London media since late summer 2021 to describe
the disposable income squeeze. Basic costs like
food and energy are projected to increase from
anything between 25% and 150%, while wages are
effectively frozen. On top of that, overall
inflation is now 11%, so real wages are falling
fast. A rude awakening for tens of thousands
every week working all hours God sends but unable to pay the bills.
Work, in the Tory parlance, no longer, Makes
You Free, and is no longer be tauted as a route
out of poverty. As Mr Micawber says in Dickens
David Copperfield, Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure nineteen and six: result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual
expenditure twenty pounds ought and six: result misery.
But the increase in fuel and gas prices cannot be
put down to Russian sanctions or even the fact
that Asia is buying more tanker-borne US Liquid
Natural Gas (LNG). If market forces were behind
these price hikes we would have not seen the
skyrocketing of annual Shell and BP dividends,
with combined annual profit now at around £50
billion. Not turnover, PROFIT! Its just good old
commodity price fixing. Please, no windfall tax.
These utilities need to be regulated back into
public ownership. So the poor too can share in their success. Now.
GDP, the debt trappists god
Over millennia, the banksters and the racketeer
rentiers they sponsor have sought to capture
every institution that opposes them by trapping
the target in debt servitude. Thomas Cook Travel,
Four Seasons Healthcare, BHS, Laker Airways, even
the mighty Carillion, all died this way Most of
the developing world, with the notable exception
of Gaddafis Libya, has been laid waste by
unpayable debt. Now its our turn. And with the
national debt now well over £2 trillion the
British state is succumbing fast. A crash is
inevitable. We need to ready Plan B: To, over a
year or so, make lifes essentials free.
The obvious principle is to gradually share
Britain out so we all have a roughly equal share
of the country. But no, even if those who own a
tiny plot and havent had to sell it to pay for
elderly care, still have a home, many, even on
the left, think its cool to take that 16x80
plot off the elderly when they die.
Emacs!
Many blame Theresa Mays attempt to float a
Dementia Tax[1] in the 2017 general election
for her losing the Tory majority. But Labour went
much further in proposals to make more of us
landless. Corbyns shadow chancellor John
McDonnell, with adviser Richard Murphy and others
proposed the Lifetime Gifts Tax (LGT) in the pre
2019 general election Land For The Many report.
Andy Wightman, Marion Shoard, Oli Rodker, Anna
Minton, Simon Fairlie and others endorsed this
wheeze, despite it raising the number of Brits
slated to lose homes on the death of a parent
(unless they had substantial savings to pay the
tax) from 650k, up to 10 million![2] Authored by
George Monbiot, Guy Shrubsole, Robin Grey and
others, Land For The Many should have been titled Land From The Many!
Contributor to the Land For The Many report,
Professor Richard Murphy, was contacted for his
response to press reports saying the Lifetime
Gifts Tax could bring twenty times more
homeowners into inheritance tax bands which mean
they could lose their homes. His response was 'If
that's what you think, I have nothing to say to you', and put the phone down.
In Who Owns Britain (Ireland, The World) author
and former Sunday Times Rich List land specialist
Kevin Cahill explains the British people did a
pretty good job post-WWII clawing back land and
homes from the historic land rentiers.
Individuals now have more land than at any time
since the enclosures. Does the to each according
to his need crew really want to stop us passing
family homes on? Driving the poorest half of
homeowners back into the landlords clutches? Do
they really believe HSBC or the Rees-Mogg state should own everything?
Emacs!
Gerrard Winstanley and his 1649 Diggers or True
Levellers raised key questions over private land
ownership, but the rentiers who convince
themselves they own this world are waging a
secret war through left NGOs on our right to pass
on to our kids the basic means to live. LVT
campaigners even think homes, market gardens and
smallholdings should be taxed. Forced into the
money system to boost GDP. No. Genuine Socialists
know you tax luxuries and bloated estates, never
necessities like a modest self-sufficient parcel, under a few acres of land.
Like Prince Charles and Klaus Schwab the Deep
State in the City of London want the New
Normal to see us and our children all living in
fear of eviction by them, because that makes us
their slaves. Sensing blood Lloyds bank has
declared its aim to become the UKs biggest homeowner by 2030.[3]
The 1947 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
spells it out; Everyone has the right to a
standard of living adequate for the health and
well-being of himself and his family, including
food, clothing, housing, and medical care and
necessary social services, and the right to
security in the event of unemployment, sickness,
disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of
livelihood, in circumstances beyond his control.
That means an ABSOLUTE RIGHT, even if we cant pay the rent.
Emacs!
No. we need to extend family land ownership, or
an inalienable right to council housing, and
gradually get every household their own home with
security of tenure for them and their children.
Not tax home owners out of existence. Thats why
our ancestors invented the copyhold tenancy and
why the Victorians extinguished it. It made it
impossible for a house to be loan collateral and
forfeited, guaranteed it would be passed on.
So. let's reduce every familys living overheads
to zero. The real debt is the land the state,
feudal barons and banksters stole from us and now
they owe us. Tory or Labour, the rentiers love it
when were landless because we have to pay them
every day just for the right to be. That, also,
is why neo-Nazi Priti Patel is criminalising
gypsies and travellers. There but for the grace of God, go all of us.
If it goes on at this rate Prince Charles and
Klaus Schwab will indeed get their way and we
will own nothing at all, and theyll probably put
low-grade MDMA in the water, to keep us happy!
House costs: build versus buy shocker!
Ignore the value of the land for a minute.
Ground clearance, services, foundations,
materials and labour to build a three bedroom
house, with a life of around 200 years, comes out
around £100,000. Thats under £10 a week. The
mystery 95% is pure profiteering. The real cost
of living crisis post globalisation, is the
capitalists dont innovate any more, just clamour
to get their precious returns, off our basic essentials.
A lesson from Michael Davitts Irish Land League
The most successful challenge to the British
crowns empire-winning landlessness strategy, to
keep the poor on their knees, was in 1880s
Ireland. Holding the balance of power, the Irish
MPs of the 1880s teamed up with Michael Davitt
and the Irish Land League to prize out of the
government a series of acts of parliament
converting the famine-era rack rents into title
deeds for the old tenants. Government loans meant
they could buy the land and build a decent
farmhouse to replace their hovel, on almost every
one of the Catholics modest holdings in the south.
Emacs!
Overnight, the desperate conditions of tenant
farmers whod been at the mercy of the absentee
landlords factor, was transformed. And the loan
repayments were a fraction of what the old rents
had been. We need to take a leaf from the Land
Leagues book, to rid the land of these parasitic
landlords once and for all, and convert those
rents to housing cooperatives, tenant run housing
associations or purchase agreements.
Who we are
The Land Is Ours was set up in 1995 by writer
George Monbiot with the aim to echo in the UK
land rights campaigns across the developing
world, notably Brazils landless movement (MST).
Also to take up the cause through non-violent
direct action of forgotten Diggers, Chartists and
Land Leaguers on our own islands. You can find us
online at www.tlio.org.uk and join the Diggers
list, set up in Easter 1999 when we occupied St
Georges Hill, Surrey for two weeks on the
Diggers 350th anniversary, by sending a blank
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Land is a free gift to mankind so should never be
considered private property like other things.
True Leveller Gerrard Winstanley said The
Earth is a Common Treasury for All, Without
Respect of Persons. Winstanley died a Quaker and
the Bible puts it thus: The land is not to be
sold permanently, for the Earth is mine, sayeth
The Lord God, and you are but my tenants. Leviticus 25:25.
References
[1] Daily Express: Theresa May social care
policy: What is the dementia tax and what has
changed? By Alice Foster Mon 22May17
[2] Metro: Labour tax plan could stop parents
passing on homes to kids, by Kate Buck, Mon 01Jul19
[3] Scottish Daily Record: Lloyds Bank sets out
new plans to buy 50,000 homes to become UKs
biggest landlord by 2030, by Linda Howard, Wed 01Sep21
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