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Can someone answer for me -- if we reform to remove leaseholds, how do current freeholders and the associated leaseholders settle? Forced sale of freehold agreement? -- what if the leaseholders dont' have funds -- low interest or 0 interest loans from government? I'm pro-reform, but very curious if anyone knows if labour/conservative have a concrete description of how this should be executed

You mean to tell me the current housing crisis is because of greedy pigs? I am shocked sir, utterly flabbergast.

Fleecehold.

It’s astounding that a parliamentary democracy maintains such vile laws for such a long time.

Well, they’re not really looking at the housing crisis as a whole. Thatcherism has inserted itself everywhere and both parties are now concerned with the homeowner class, including the lower rungs of that property ladder. As long as you’re on it, you’re somewhat visible. The housing crisis affects renters disproportionately but who gives a flying fuck about plebs who can’t even own property?

If the American right is any indication, responding to being perceived as a "divided party" by booting their leader will be exactly what happens.

There's a very important fourth factor that you didn't mention: an unusually large number of voters voting tactically.

I'll save y'all nearly 10 minutes and answer the question directly, it's because of FPTP voting system in a two party democracy. If you want the Tories out you got to vote (tactically) for one of the other top two parties. Voting for the greens in 2024 means voting to keep the Tories in.

I love buy a flat but all flats are lease hold

Housing management involves way too many people that need to make money off of it. Subsequently, these people don't work and therefore don't add value to the economy. Landlords and everyone in between that doesn't need to be there, is a leech on society, very much like people collecting handouts.

Conclusion: Hire Andy's for Mayor

And with this video TLDR show that they work off hope and not reality. Reform UK a right wing party is closer to being the second party in the UK rather than the Lib dems. It is almost as if the people doing this vid have never researched UK politics. The Lib dems are a protest vote. Torries upset at their MP`s often vote lib dem to show how upset they are.Some Labour voters do the same. When it comes to a G.E. the votes dry up for the lib dems. This has happened time after time and is nothing new.

Building more houses with proper planning around it Solves the housing crisis.

There can be no end to the housing crisis in a country where over a million people are added to the population every year.

the people of the uk YEARN for federalism

The tories are done for

So the blue globalists have took one more chunk out of Britain so the British have decided to put their votes into the red and yellow globalists. Classic 😂

Stopping migration with solve the housing crisis

leaseholds wouldn't be a problem if they actually built houses. then they would have to compete with renting and buying. they're targeting the wrong problem. the only solution is to legalize building

Polls are pretty accurate when the left is winning, but never when the right is winning

All democracies must realise at some stage that the further devolution of power to people, whether representative or more direct, is the future. It is the only way to fix the world.

Leasehold is a disgrace. Every political party should be campaigning to abolish it. The fact that they don't just tells you that lobbyists are in control.

No one likes Sunak. His own party members didn't want him. They voted for other leaders, yet he was basically appointed by the party leadership, at the behest of lobbyists and financial backers. He is a diversity hire gone wrong. Own goal by the Tories yet again.

A system that worked pretty well until corporate greed got involved

It's almost impossible just because of how FPTP works, but it would be amazing if it did happen.

Nothing was done before because lots of people in power are freeholders themselves and a lot to lose.

BRITAIN NEEDS DEVOLUTION FROM ALL THE INCOMPETENT FOOLS IN PARLIAMENT.

Hilarious that the tories try to blame rishi sunak for the poor performance like they didn't just have 4 failed prime ministers in a row

My parents missed a chance to increase the lease for £1k to £40k within 10 years+. It’s a crazy system. Freehold owner was some rich guy from Israel. Luckily we were able to sell it.

Tories...pshhh 😂😂😂😂 any one that votes for them are insane

worthless idea, devolution still comes under a common constitution, shud be a federated devolution

How many white males between 20yrs and 40yrs are there? wouldn't be about the same number as African and Muslim migrants would it?

It's taken them this long to realise all of this, well doesn't matter since I left the UK two years ago after going through years of nightmare to buy or rent anywhere decent. Should've happened in 2015.

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What is the difference between them all? Same thing over various timescales?

I don’t agree with the narrative that Britain had the cheapest food before Brexit . So many Latin countries had cheapest food and anyone who had a holiday in a Latin country would agree . Of course I know now we have the expensive food costs and I voted to stay in the European market. British people didn’t have enough information from the government to to make a responsible decision either way before they voted. It’s like a jury of 12 people in a court sitting with earmuffs on and at the end of the court proceedings making a decision without hearing the evidence. Or to put it another way , A toddler is in the kitchen and he was just going to put his hand on the hot oven . His Mum says Don’t put your hands on the oven but not explaining WHY. When I was a child in the 60s and 70s the government used to arrange Public information TV advertisement . Eg . Green Cross code , Ask people who knock on your door for I.D , Learn how to Swim , Children don’t take sweets from strangers and other subjects . It’s a shame the British government didn’t arrange TV programmes giving information about Brexit . In my past works I have trained so many people and given them the right information to do their jobs . Why didn’t our government do the same?

As a 2nd generation Scottish Canadian I hope Scotland fixes itself and remember our rich history of enduring and fighting for our people. Most of my ancestors are buried on Scotlands soil and I want to forever be proud of the people who live there and love Scotland❤

Been saying for weeks that this is possible.

I know it’s real hip and all that, but the outsized microphone obscuring half of your face is a bit silly…

2:45 47 seats "making them technically the official opposition". I believe the official opposition is the party with the second-largest number of MPs in parliament. The SNP currently has 48 - though I wouldn't be surprised if they lose some at the election.

The Greens are offering the most reasonable change for the better. Labour has abandoned all of their promises so theyre as trustworthy as conservatives now.

We have imported over 9,000,000 people's worth of nett migration since 1996. This has increased demand for housing, which has driven up house prices and rents. At the same time, this unprecedented level of immigration has helped to supress wage increases and increase competition for employment. The UK is the third most population dense nation with more than 20 million population in Europe and is in the top 20% for population density of all polities on Earth. We will talk about and try to deal with every problem in the UK, but we won't ever deal with the one issue that drives poverty, crime and cultural fragmentation.

All of this and the fact that children fucking suck.

The UK is lost, they keep voting in the same two incompetent parties.

The Lib Dumbs would have to win at least 30 seats just to catch the SNP, there is more chance the SNP will become the official party of Opposition 😆😆😆

Uk probably has higher water prices then desert countryes yet here rains more then in europe,how can water conpanues go banckrupt?

New zealand still has lease holds

Historically the Lib Dems are the remnant of the Liberal Party which were once in the position that the Conservatives are currently in. The IRONY of the Lib Dems taking the title of 'Major Party' for the Tories in the 21st century when they did that to the Liberals in the early 20th century is DELICIOUS!

You failed to take into account what is going to be a major factor in the GE: tactical voting, That is something that can absoluely decimate them.

What needs to be understood is that the Lib Dems are fighting on essentially on only one front - against the Tories in blue wall seats. Sure there was a significant shift from the Lib Dems to Labour after Brexit happened and Starmer replaced Corbyn, but that happened pretty evenly across the country, and has long since been priced in by party strategists. For the past four years the Lib Dems have been focussing on making themselves as efficient as they possibly can be under FPTP given their mostly static vote share, and the local election results do suggest that strategy is working. The Tories on the other hand are fighting on three fonts - against the Lib Dems in the blue wall, and against Labour across almost the entire country, and against Reform who risk a spoiler effect in red wall areas. The impossibility of such a fight is why a complete Tory collapse looks increasingly likely. That being said it is, as this video recognises, very unlikely that the Lib Dems will finish ahead of the Tories. The point at which the parties would swap places would probably be more like 70 seats each, which would require not only a complete Tory collapse but also the best Liberal performance in around a century, neither of which are currently suggested by current polling averages. What is looking increasingly likely, however, is that the Lib Dems overtake the SNP to become the third party again, which potentially sets them up much better for future general elections due to the increased media coverage.