Harry Scoffin is a one man source of PR and journalism for a whole class of flat holders with leasehold that holds them in the grip of freeholders. Norma Cohen is as vigorous a pensioner as Harry is a young adult.
Harry has discovered Angela Rayner , former deputy leader and now voice for many dispossessed of housing rights, read on..
Later yesterday, Barry Gardiner, another Labour politician who will not be caught in the insidious campaigning of the freeholders
I hope Harry has seen off the use of Pensions UK and other pension bodies to support freeholders who claimed out pensions were being paid by Ground Rent – this was rubbish and lying rubbish and I’m glad that John Chilman (a Railway man) and others put distance from the argument.
It is important that ordinary people are allowed to own property by common hold where they choose to or cannot afford but to, own the rights to their property through leases.
So long as I can help, I will and I hope that Harry’s linked in posts can be amplified by my blogs so that they get into the inboxes of a few influential people. I mean really influential, the people who get bills launched and read and turned to legislation in parliament.
The Labour party, before it came to power, promised us Common Hold just as the Government before had done. There were beacons of good in the former Government, Michael Gove was one. Now Rayner and Gardiner are two in this.
We will get there in the end and at the very least the cost of ground hold will be capped at £250 pa. I would like it to be “peppercorn”, I certainly know of ground rents (my and my partners a case in point) multiples of any cap.
Press on Harry and press on real journalists , mentored by Norma Cohen and writing in her wake.
