1970s news headlines | Bill Grundy | 1970s housing | Right to buy | Today | 1977

'Today' presenter Bill Grundy reads the days news headlines and then interviews Hugh Rossi MP about a new housing report that had been blocked for publication by some Labour MPs - in the report it details how many people would rather own their own home rather than renting a council house.
Quote: 02/03/1977
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[@LeighRichards27]

Two years after this show went out Thatcher was elected and started flogging off millions of council houses on the cheap - but then didnt allow councils to use the money from the sales to replace their housing stocks (shamefully this continued under major - and the blair lab govt). Decades later we've got a massive housing and homelessness crisis

[@ronmccullock1407]

So true

[@Witheredgoogie]

The report shows the housing crisis was pretty much apparent in 1977 under a Labour gov who had censored the report.. instead of knocking it, appreciate it was a wonderful thing that the working class who had been paying rent all life with no chance of ever buying a home, were suddenly given a chance to own the home (on the cheap) that they had cherished for years under Thatcher..who was more for the working class than Labour could ever be, Labour actually despises the working class and always had done, according to Labour they have too much lip and should know their place which is under their control.

[@richbiles230872]

@@Witheredgoogie 🤣

[@VeggieBackGarden]

@@Witheredgoogie I'm sorry - but your comment is utter crap.

[@ERobbins1234]

The housing crisis was caused by NIMBYs, and councils refusing planning permission for new housing.

[@buddha1736]

A neighbour of mine on my street purchased his council house for a 85% discount, and retired at 50 years old, he now moans to everyone how lazy the youth are today, gotta love the boomers.

[@whatamalike]

Socialism for one generation, pretty much.

[@whatamalike]

@@buddha1736 yep, as somebody in their early 30s who has on and off been saving for a mortgage deposit I can agree with that. Can't help but feel a little bitter, but I'll be honest; if I was of boomer age o would've done the exact same thing regarding right to buy

[@buddha1736]

@@whatamalike I live in a council house the council said I have the right to buy and they will give me 30% off the price, I refused because I don’t want to fcuk the next generation to be honest.

[@whatamalike]

@@buddha1736 true. But again, that's knowing what we know now. Many in the 80s didn't see the collosal shit show the housing market would become

[@markofsaltburn]

@@buddha1736 That’s admirable. One of the downsides of individualism is that when you draw attention to the intended consequences of it people react with hostility. When your sense of self has such a narrow focus, anything that questions it and forces you to look at the world beyond yourself feels like a personal attack.

[@andreass2301]

Strangest ever interview with Marlon Brando

[@barryballsit4944]

Interesting. Mr Rossi MP interviewed here, only passed away last year at the age of 92. The interviewer reminds me a bit of Jon Craig, political journalist at Sky News

[@JRStephens5005]

Bill Grundy- he was a dirty, filthy old man. Absolute waste of space.

[@AlanTaylormusic]

What a Rotter!

[@VeggieBackGarden]

Hugh Rossi MP, one of the main architects of the 'Right to Buy' scheme - resulting in the effed up state of the housing market today.

[@lameduck3630]

Right to buy was a Labour idea.

[@VeggieBackGarden]

@@lameduck3630 Eh,? Please educate me....

[@lameduck3630]

@@VeggieBackGarden It was a policy in their 1959 manifesto.

[@VeggieBackGarden]

@@lameduck3630 That you for your response, I didn't know that. However, it does not distract from the fact that 'Right to Buy' has been part of the whole effing shambles that we see today in the current housing market.

[@lameduck3630]

@@VeggieBackGarden In many ways it's been a great success. Places like Hackney have been revived with more private renters spending their higher incomes locally. Having so many low income and socially challenged people living in one place is a disaster. We still have far more council than housing the rest of Europe.

[@regplasma7906]

I believe Mr Rossi was a Vampire .Ray Reardon told me.

[@williamlane9844]

Wow, how times have changed,

[@omrxblah4572]

I mean basically nothing has changed

[@mikewa2]

Right to Buy policy also wanted to change mindset of occupiers from being Labour voters to Tory voters.

[@TheSaintsray]

16th March 1977.

[@Nickpaintbrush]

I bet he wish Queen had showed up instead of the sex pistols though!

[@Alfredromeothatsme]

My mother in law from Kent bought her house from the council dirt cheap and when she died it passed onto her alcoholic son. He sold it and lived the life of Reilly which eventually killed him!

[@spidyman8853]

Thanks to Maggie, Council housing is no more

[@BobConanOwen]

Thanks to maggie - council estates are no longer the crime ridden ghettos that they were 30 years ago 👍.

[@trevorrandom]

What a scorcher!

[@firecriss1392]

"No, no....what was the bad word?"

[@robholden1341]

Shit.

[@orig66Super]

Bah. 40 degrees means a nice day to me.

[@focusingbeauty]

It's 2021 and I'm still waiting for these fishing hints.

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

go vegan, fish don't need your abuse

[@jasonayres]

Messrs Grundy and Rossi in conversation - that could have been from a script for "Yes, Minister" (and I say that with respect) 😉 By the way, ancient Britons of March 1977, be careful out there - 19 degrees (C)..! Phew, you're all going on a Summer holiday! Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

[@Witheredgoogie]

Today that relatively high temperature in March would have had the greens all over it -sign of global warming blah blah blah

[@bhangrafan4480]

No sh*t, the majority of people would rather invest their money in bricks and mortar than pay rent. I guess the majority of people would rather own a Rolls Royce rather than a Hillman Imp. The problem is they couldn't afford it. The financial system promised everyone that if they got into debt enough they could all be home owners. The result was the 2008 financial crash which the world has never fully recovered from. Now a so-called "affordable' house, (arbitrarily defined as a fraction of market prices, not by incomes), in London would require you to earn over £70,000 a year, more than twice the median average income. On top of this there is no social housing stock left.

[@CM_Burns]

complaining about being censored even back in the 70s, not much has changed since then

[@ghostriderinthesky6685]

Then he met the Sex Pistols........

[@jack0609]

I think that was the year before I could be wrong

[@JRStephens5005]

No, this was March, 77. His "interview" with the Pistols was in December, 76.

[@JRStephens5005]

​@jack0609 You're right- it was December, 76.

[@richardwager283]

1st, just like that!

[@evo5dave]

You're a hero

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

J lie that.

[@markmacthree3168]

Panto as always