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My best friend Ruth Kelly is at it again. Not content with preparing the nations education system for sale to the highest corporate bidder in her previous position she is now firing on all cylinders in a bid to rid the public of its houses! Rather than scream and shout, I am simply going to highlight the key points here;
Oddly enough, nobody is talking about where this rent will go, who pays for the refurbishments and who is liable if the ceiling falls down and kills somebody. Knowing the fun packed Labour government and Ruth "Lunatic Opus Dei Member Who Fundamentally Disagrees With Gay People And Their Right To Exist As Part Of Her Religion But Is Now Being Paid By The Nation To Achieve And Protect Equal Rights For Them" Kelly as well as I do, here are my guesses...
What happens if somebody goes on holiday and falls ill and ends up in a foreign country for 6 months? Do they return home to find that their home has been broken into, refurbished and rented out? If this doesn't sound like something straight out of an Orwellian nightmare to you then leave this site and NEVER return. I cannot believe that this story is not the ONLY thing that people are talking about everywhere in the UK right now. Who gives a rats arse whether or not Wayne Rooney is playing for England? People should be more concerned that, if we do too well in the competition he may have to stay away from home so long that the council are changing the carpets before he gets back! It is time ladies and gentlemen...This has gone too far and for too long. The only reason they even dare to try to impose this kind of ridiculous legislation upon the unsuspecting British people is because they have dumbed us down in school, given us our citizenship lessons, fluoridated our water to make us docile, shot innocent members of the public in broad daylight, fed us with Aspartame and other drugs to make us compliant, taxed us so hard that it is impossible to notice what is going on with our own children let alone the running of the country, frightened us with Osama The Bogeyman and many other lies, This is simply muscle-flexing on their part. They are showing us that they are in charge with their laws and legislation that no sane person would actually accept were the above not all true. There is no other alternative...The entire government and parliament setup must go and the process of ridding the nation of this most cancerous of tumours must begin now. The best way to do this is through the popular voice. We need a petition that the majority of Britain signs that states clearly that we no longer want a parliament or a government and that we do want a return to the social community based structure that worked so well for so many years prior to government meddling. Knock on the doors of your neighbours and explain to them what this is all about. Explain that the government is about to start taking peoples homes from them. Explain that the government is privatising the NHS without their permission. Explain that the government has already passed various pieces of legislation that mean total martial law if and when they choose to implement them. Explain to them that the government is destroying our children by selling their education to corporations who will then be involved in their career advice. Explain to them that the government is allowing the shooting of innocent civilians and not even forcing those suspected of the crimes to give evidence in a timely fashion if at all. Explain to them that their tax bill is the highest it has ever been in history and yet all of the extra tax that they are paying and more is going towards a war that nobody wanted. Explain to them that they cannot walk the streets, go into a shop or drive their car without a camera filming their every move. Explain to them that you are not prepared to stand for this any longer and neither should they. Explain to them that they do not NEED to stand for it any longer and that there is an alternative. Make sure that every member of the household signs the petition. If they are under 18 then their parents can sign it on their behalf. 30 million signatures is a lot of signatures to get but it is worth it, isn't it? Each person that signs up is more than capable of getting 100 more signatures aren't they? So if ten people get 100 signatures that will be 1,000 signatures. If each of those people gets 100 signatures that will be 100,000 signatures. If each of those people get 100 signatures that will be 10,000,000 signatures. I think you get the idea! I have put the petition in the TOOLKIT SECTION for download. PLEASE USE IT! |
Saturday 17th June 2006 | The Daily Mail
Bereaved families could have the homes of dead relatives seized under new laws that allow the state to commandeer empty properties.
Local councils will be able to take control of inherited homes if they are left vacant for more than six months.
After that time the beneficiaries of a will risk seeing the house that has been left to them taken over and rented out as social housing.
The new rules, which could affect 250,000 homes in England, will come into force next month, according to details slipped out by Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly.
They state that those who leave a house or flat empty for six months risk losing control of it to the local council, which will have power to break in, alter or refurbish it, and let it out to tenants of the authority’s choice. The greatest impact is likely to fall on bereaved families.
Although actual ownership will remain with the family, the new law means that the home of a relative who has died may be taken over by the council just six months after the will has been put into effect.
Many families are likely to be debating how to deal with or share out the value of the home of a loved one for several months after a death. The risk of losing family property comes on top of the growing burden of inheritance tax and the highly controversial ‘means test’ system for long-term care of the elderly.
Tory housing spokesman Michael Gove said yesterday: "Seizing homes of the recently deceased is particularly disturbing. I doubt that state officials will always recognise the delays that can result from complex wills or appreciate the traumatic ordeal that families face with the task of clearing a home of personal possessions." He added: "I fear this is a stealthy new form of inheritance tax."
Housing experts called the confiscation of property 'outrageous'. Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank said: "This runs right against the ancient common law principle of private property, which is as fundamental as habeas corpus.
"The right to private property is the Englishman’s right to his castle. This looks to me like the point where Labour has overstepped the mark into behaving more like a dictatorship than a democratic government."
Mr Whelan added: "I think anybody whose property is seized under this law should go straight to court to see if a judge thinks it should stand."
Henry Stuart, head of property at the City law firm Withers, said: "Many families decide to sell inherited property – but they often wait for the right time. For example, you do not sell a country cottage in November, you wait until the spring. But by then the local council could have put a tenant in."
The right for councils to impose 'Empty Dwelling Management Orders' was included in a 2004 Housing Act pushed through by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
Miss Kelly, his successor in charge of housing policy, published guidance on how the orders will work last Friday afternoon, without informing MPs or the media.
When the law was pushed through Parliament, it was said that target homes would be in crime-affected streets in inner cities. However, the details now made public show that the orders will apply to any home. The guidance on the new powers said: "The property does not have to be run down or uninhabitable. The fact it has not been lived in for more than six months may be enough to allow an EDMO to be made."
Exceptions cover second and holiday homes and homes of those working 'temporarily' away. In the case of inherited property, exemption applies for six months after grant of probate. An EDMO can last for seven years, but owners can apply to get their house back earlier. No home can be seized if its owner can show it is 'genuinely' on the market.
The seizure of homes must also be approved by a Residential Property Tribunal. These are the panels that have until now been confined to settling disputes between private landlords and tenants.
Those who are the first to lose control of property to a council may also challenge the new law in the courts through the process of judicial review.
A spokesman for Miss Kelly’s department said: "The owner retains ownership rights and can dispose of their dwelling at any time or seek revocation of an order to enable sale or to otherwise secure occupation."