SarahBell Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Guardian has a bit about protest posters. The one on the main page is a rent related one. It's not featured on the article that I can see though. (look on main page for it) Posters are:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/mar/24/poster-workshop-1968-protest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicestersq Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Guardian has a bit about protest posters. The one on the main page is a rent related one. It's not featured on the article that I can see though. (look on main page for it) Posters are:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/mar/24/poster-workshop-1968-protest That poster seems to be trying to introduce price controls that failed in the UK in the 1970's and was tried and has failed in Zimbabwe Russia and the US. What was it Einstein said about stupidity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Glover Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) Thanks for the link, I've got a new avatar now Edit - No I haven't, it's not working and now I've broken the old one! Edit 2 - Fixed! Edited March 25, 2011 by Fishbone Glover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injin Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 That poster seems to be trying to introduce price controls that failed in the UK in the 1970's and was tried and has failed in Zimbabwe Russia and the US. What was it Einstein said about stupidity? Rents are not part of the free market, they are more like blackmail or extortion. Clearly you agree that those things should be limited, so why not rents? In any event, there are hundreds of policies designed to lower wages and reduce worker bargaining power already - retinkering in their favour is one way of trying to solve the problems it causes. (The other is to drop the other policies of course.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE BALD MAN Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 That poster seems to be trying to introduce price controls that failed in the UK in the 1970's and was tried and has failed in Zimbabwe Russia and the US. What was it Einstein said about stupidity? There are plenty of market distortions in the rental sector already controlled by the government...interest expenses deductibility for BTL..housing benefit...legislation denying rights to tenants...planning legislation...this is not a free market!!!!! Free markets do not exisist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthe~ Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Why not let house prices fall, then new entrants to the landlord market will be able to charge a lower rent and still make a good profit out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Riiiight....so thats why the grauniad lot are against a cap, often the same thing as a freeze, in Landlord housing benefit. Lefty morons being lefty morons, quelle surprise... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJAR Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 I always wonder why people believe that the government is motivated by or even able to help them. They don't care, they don't like you unless you are in the act of voting for them and they couldn't help you much if their life depended on it. get rid of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blod Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 I always wonder why people believe that the government is motivated by or even able to help them. They don't care, they don't like you unless you are in the act of voting for them and they couldn't help you much if their life depended on it. get rid of them! Government policy over the last twenty to thirty years has help push housing costs up and ignored the negative effects of that. Is it too much to ask them to to desist and allow market forces to return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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