Thursday, Nov 29, 2007
Renting is horrible so buy a house NOW say desperate BBC
BBC "News": Who'd live in a house like this?
One-sided op-editorial attempt by the BBC to spur people into buying houses. Things have turned desperate for the amateur buy-to-let turned amateur news editors at White City.
Posted by paul @ 12:49 PM (895 views) Add Comment
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1. bingo said...
It's funny because for a long time now they have been one of the biggest proponents of shared ownership... So as usual, they have contradictory reporting. On one hand, strangers can live together, but on the other hand they can't. The BBC are rubbish anyway, not like they were when the light service was on the go!!!
2. drewster said...
Presumably the BBC's next suggestion to solve the problem of annoying housemates is co-buying with a friend. That'd be so much better, then I'd have an annoying housemate who I couldn't get rid of!
3. paul said...
An excellent point drewster - this has nothing to do with renting, and everything to do with shared housing, which the BBC has been telling us is the answer to the housing problem - in other words, instead of buying all of a property, you buy half (then a quarter, then an eighth according to the BBC's logic presumably etc. etc.)
4. jack c said...
Whilst the lenders initially started to go along with the concept of buying with a mate etc… they have since gone cold on the idea, presumably because someone suddenly woke up to the fact that you are “jointly and severally liable” for the loan and walking away after a minor dispute over who used up all of the milk and cheese from the fridge isn’t realistically an option. Why don’t these Muppets come to terms with the fact that a return to sensible, prudent, responsible lending and borrowing is the way forward.
5. Utterlee said...
I think the BBC bashing is reaching ridiculous fever-pitch levels on this forum now. I work at White City and I think this concept that the BBC has some sort of insideous property bubble inflating agenda to be totally ludicrous - they're just reporting what's going on. Sometimes the reporting isn't what it should be, but as with everything in life, never attribute to conspiracy what can be put down to incompetence.
This article is simply a light hearted look at the trials and tribulations of house-sharing. Nowhere can I see it saying anything about encouraging people to buy buy buy. It's only your own prejudices which is making you see it as anything different.
Now take a deep breath, take off the tinfoil hats and lets look at the proper news and the impending house price crash which we all want to see.
6. Nmarks said...
The selling of the shared housing scheme was a tactic to keep the gullible propping the market up.
How disgraceful that FTBs are told this somehow a respectable viable and only choice while Tinpot BTL Tyrants gorge themselves on their selfish ill-gotten gains.
It is an insult to the intelligence, an insult to those who believe in fairplay and an insult to anyone who believes in an equitable, just society.
7. enuii said...
It's just another example of how bad journalism has become since the rise of NeuLiebour in 1997, the BBC and it's reporting has become nothing short of a national disgrace. Once upon a time there was actually news worth watching on the box and reading in the papers until the world became a vacuous fantasy land infested with spin and sound bite obsessed liars called politicians.
8. Ihopeitgoeswithabang said...
The BBC this morning was a joke.
Every time they talk about house prices going down they sound so afraid and unwilling to use strong language. It amazes me. Well it used to anyway!
Whenever house prices were going up they were busy shouting it from the top of Television Centre and giving half their Program Time to it.
Now its started going the other way they are whispering it quietly to everyone.
Too many vested interests in the game now arent there. So much money is at stake you can taste the fear.
9. Stevie Dee said...
Scaremongering.. or in collequial speak "utter b@ll@ks", what utter rubbish, what is this ladies salary again? and we ar paying for this luxury, surely not?