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The Help to Buy equity loan scheme has left hundreds of thousands of buyers facing escalating repayment costs tied to inflated property valuations. This cautionary tale demonstrates why government intervention distorts housing markets and traps families in financial complexity they never anticipated.
The government's push to expand metro mayors and combined authorities is systematically diluting rural England's political voice, redirecting funding toward urban cores while imposing city-centric policies on communities with fundamentally different needs. This represents an assault on local democracy and the cultural distinctiveness of rural life.
Stamp duty land tax has become one of Britain's most economically destructive taxes, discouraging labour mobility and preventing families from upsizing. Abolishing this market-distorting levy is a genuinely conservative cause that would unlock a paralysed property system.
While British families wait over a decade for social housing, asylum seekers are being fast-tracked into council properties within months of gaining refugee status. This systematic queue-jumping is a scandal that successive governments have refused to acknowledge.
While squatting in homes was criminalised in 2012, commercial property remains a legal grey area exploited by opportunists. Property owners face expensive court battles to reclaim their own buildings while trespassers enjoy legal protection.
Six million British 'homeowners' don't actually own their homes — they're trapped in a feudal system of ground rents and permission fees that amounts to permanent taxation by a parasitic landlord class. Only complete leasehold abolition will end this racket.
Labour's reforms to compulsory purchase orders are handing the state sweeping new powers to acquire private land at artificially suppressed values. This assault on property rights reveals a government more comfortable seizing assets than protecting the fundamental freedoms that underpin a free society.
Labour's Renters' Rights Bill promises security for tenants by abolishing Section 21 evictions, but the economics tell a different story. As small landlords exit the market in droves, the very renters Labour claims to protect face higher costs and fewer choices.
Labour's decision to impose inheritance tax on agricultural property represents the most devastating attack on rural Britain in generations. This ideological assault on family farms will destroy centuries of tradition whilst achieving virtually nothing for the Treasury.
The planning system's failure to deliver homes isn't a left-wing grievance—it's destroying property-owning democracy and conservative values. True Tories must choose between protecting existing assets and expanding ownership to the next generation.