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George Osborne is offering me a £75k bribe if I buy my council house. Should I take it?

The Chancellor has an indecent proposal for leftish council tenants like me

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

As a council house tenant who despises the idea of right-to-buy, I have to admit that George Osborne has put me in a quandary. Like all Tories, the Chancellor likes home ownership — after all, people who own rather than rent are more likely to vote Tory. It’s hard for him to repeat Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy trick because it was so successful that there’s hardly any council housing left to flog.

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