Headlines like this are dangerous as they can be used by people like Nigel Farage to whip up xenophobia.
This is a headline meant to promote xenophobia, but this is also completely the English people’s doing as they want more Conservative policies; one of those policies is to make it harder for English people to afford to buy a home.
Downvotes will not change the fact that concentrating exclusively on raising house prices makes it harder for English folk to buy a home.
No proble. With it but nowhere in the article does it indicate some data to provide a story akin to the title.
Does it mean that our of, I don’t know 3 million houses 1.500.001 are owned by Indians, does it mean that while 66 % percent of British people own their household, the Indian etnic people own 66.00001% or more?
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If these people have been “living here for generations” how are they not also English?
The irony of this xenophobic headline on its intended audience is astonishing
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Repaying the favour.
That’s because they are smart enough to work together as a family so they can all enjoy a good life. Trouble with the British way is we all want to live on our own, do little work and compete with everyone on social media for the best clothes, cars, holidays or whatever else. It was inevitable that this couldn’t last. Move in with someone, split the costs and start saving for your own place. Also stop whining about it.
So John Cleese was right.
Wow, what a racist and oppressive country we live in.
Says it all about the priorities of British governments since the war. Britain must be one of the few nations to have a government who don’t prioritise the interests of its own people.
They don’t spend money on trash and not in London for the raz!
♪♫♬*Uno reverse cards are flying* ♪♫♬
Absolute bollocks – where are the statistics to back this claim up?
Wheres a breakdown by Ethnicicity
I used to work with an Indian chap who did this very thing during the 90s. He owned about a dozen properties that he rented out to students during term time. I remember asking him why he worked if he had all that passive income. He said because he liked to stay busy and that his hobby was working. He liked to fiddle with electronics so when the management did something he didn’t like he just walked away and started working at a medical device company.
Define ‘the English’. Picts, Celts, Europeans from the Roman occupation, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans (Danes with a posher language), Hugenots, obviously not Ugandan Asians (/s), Windrush Generation… I’ve probably missed a few!
From experience of London this sounds like total bollocks.
Filthy foreigners, denying proud **British** billionaires the right to charge 24 year olds a grand per month for a 6 x 10′ box bedroom
>Indians – led by those living in the UK for generations
So…English people.
Worth mentioning that this massively misleading headline is from an Indian newspaper, rather than a British one. Make of that what you will.
> Indians – led by those living in the UK for generations, NRIs, investors living elsewhere, students and families traveling to the UK for education
So just brown English or British folks
> Around 30 per cent of sales at Barratt London in the capital city are to pure investors (those who wish to use them as rental properties) and in that, 30 per cent includes buyers from overseas markets.
Again, just small sample size of 1 developer who might be popular with foreigners and even then less than 10% of buyers are foreign investors which includes Indians n everyone else.
I don’t get why such articles are kept up where OP doesn’t specify the point of posting it. How does this help the community?
What about the Chinese and the Saudis and the Emiratis?
When i hear this news i think ‘good on them’, also that opportunity and success is colour blind.
Sad times. This stat if true is very, very sad.
Its a big issue on high street ownership that a great deal is held by groups outside the country. I remember one program about it where a council, desperate to keep their high street, tracked down one of the owners and it turned out to be some random dutch company’s portfolio and they had no idea what it even was – they just knew it was an investment and expressed vague interest when it stopped generating money. To them it was just a set of numbers and largely insignificant in the scheme of things.
‘Indians lead by those living in the uk for generations ‘ so that would be English / British then .
Oh bloody el mateeeeee,bloody bastards
As an outsider, reading the comments like these here is incredibly fascinating. The human mind really is so malleable. You can even shape it to make them think of seeing your own home being sold away as a reasonable thing. The fear of social disapproval is such a powerful tool.
You mean the British Indians who aspire towards the old school British values such as seeking home ownership?
Well yeah. Didn’t people know this already? It’s weird how people automatically assume ethnic minorities in London/UK are worse off than themselves lol. Nope. There are a lot of well-educated and successful peeps. Hard workers with good careers etc. Buying properties for investment purposes. These people are all British citizens btw.
Londonistan
Headline reads like something you’d see written on an EDL pamphlet.
I think this article is referring to foreign investors not Indians living in the UK which is unfair on anyone living here locally . The same issue is happening with Chinese investors and so on , since they are inflating the already hyperbolic estate market .
Some people say Tory policies but I haven’t seen labour clamping down on this so called investors .
If you are a politician money talks !
Given that any attempt to define who is “English” will instantly run into the problem that any definition which does not include every Indian and Pakistani in England will be dismissed as not “inclusive” enough I wonder where these people get their figures for who is “English” as against who is Indian or Pakistani or for that matter Colombian or haitian?
If by “English” we can assume they mean something like “white people who were born to white English parents and speak English as a mother tongue” then it is hardly news that such people are a minority and a declining minority in London where the only arbiter of who lives there is money.
“England” may be a quaint and anachronistic notion but money is very very real and very very now.
Quick question…why are we letting foreign buyers muscle out people who actually live in London for homes during a huge decades long societal crisis?
It blows my mind why people think this is a good idea, I want a house…can afford at these prices but I straight up refuse to buy a market that is pumped infinitely.
The housing market like any market has a limit, housing more so because well when it gets too extreme for the local economy you get huge issues with demand
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Daft cunts. Joke’ll be on them when Sterling/the market collapses and they lose everything.
I think you’ll find very little of London is owned by the English.
But hey Boris’s brexit solved all that/s
Mmm xenophobia
So long as they are residents here I don’t care,
Non-residents, and those with more than 1/2 properties will eventually be hung out to dry and it will be delicious to see
Isn’t this based on one agency [who specifically advertise to investors ](https://www.barratthomes.co.uk/new-homes/london/why-us/invest/?gclid=CjwKCAjwvNaYBhA3EiwACgndgnKy6BRGFj7F0NCGW6eK0dwbs_6hWzE9you8LlrvjUVTf9ITd2LdIhoCtbwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) rather than an overall picture?
Headlines like this are dangerous as they can be used by people like Nigel Farage to whip up xenophobia.
This is a headline meant to promote xenophobia, but this is also completely the English people’s doing as they want more Conservative policies; one of those policies is to make it harder for English people to afford to buy a home.
Downvotes will not change the fact that concentrating exclusively on raising house prices makes it harder for English folk to buy a home.
No proble. With it but nowhere in the article does it indicate some data to provide a story akin to the title.
Does it mean that our of, I don’t know 3 million houses 1.500.001 are owned by Indians, does it mean that while 66 % percent of British people own their household, the Indian etnic people own 66.00001% or more?
[deleted]
If these people have been “living here for generations” how are they not also English?
The irony of this xenophobic headline on its intended audience is astonishing
[deleted]
Repaying the favour.
That’s because they are smart enough to work together as a family so they can all enjoy a good life. Trouble with the British way is we all want to live on our own, do little work and compete with everyone on social media for the best clothes, cars, holidays or whatever else. It was inevitable that this couldn’t last. Move in with someone, split the costs and start saving for your own place. Also stop whining about it.
So John Cleese was right.
Wow, what a racist and oppressive country we live in.
Says it all about the priorities of British governments since the war. Britain must be one of the few nations to have a government who don’t prioritise the interests of its own people.
They don’t spend money on trash and not in London for the raz!
♪♫♬*Uno reverse cards are flying* ♪♫♬
Absolute bollocks – where are the statistics to back this claim up?
Wheres a breakdown by Ethnicicity
I used to work with an Indian chap who did this very thing during the 90s. He owned about a dozen properties that he rented out to students during term time. I remember asking him why he worked if he had all that passive income. He said because he liked to stay busy and that his hobby was working. He liked to fiddle with electronics so when the management did something he didn’t like he just walked away and started working at a medical device company.
Define ‘the English’. Picts, Celts, Europeans from the Roman occupation, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans (Danes with a posher language), Hugenots, obviously not Ugandan Asians (/s), Windrush Generation… I’ve probably missed a few!
From experience of London this sounds like total bollocks.
Filthy foreigners, denying proud **British** billionaires the right to charge 24 year olds a grand per month for a 6 x 10′ box bedroom
>Indians – led by those living in the UK for generations
So…English people.
Worth mentioning that this massively misleading headline is from an Indian newspaper, rather than a British one. Make of that what you will.
> Indians – led by those living in the UK for generations, NRIs, investors living elsewhere, students and families traveling to the UK for education
So just brown English or British folks
> Around 30 per cent of sales at Barratt London in the capital city are to pure investors (those who wish to use them as rental properties) and in that, 30 per cent includes buyers from overseas markets.
Again, just small sample size of 1 developer who might be popular with foreigners and even then less than 10% of buyers are foreign investors which includes Indians n everyone else.
I don’t get why such articles are kept up where OP doesn’t specify the point of posting it. How does this help the community?
What about the Chinese and the Saudis and the Emiratis?
When i hear this news i think ‘good on them’, also that opportunity and success is colour blind.
Sad times. This stat if true is very, very sad.
Its a big issue on high street ownership that a great deal is held by groups outside the country. I remember one program about it where a council, desperate to keep their high street, tracked down one of the owners and it turned out to be some random dutch company’s portfolio and they had no idea what it even was – they just knew it was an investment and expressed vague interest when it stopped generating money. To them it was just a set of numbers and largely insignificant in the scheme of things.
‘Indians lead by those living in the uk for generations ‘ so that would be English / British then .
Oh bloody el mateeeeee,bloody bastards
As an outsider, reading the comments like these here is incredibly fascinating. The human mind really is so malleable. You can even shape it to make them think of seeing your own home being sold away as a reasonable thing. The fear of social disapproval is such a powerful tool.
You mean the British Indians who aspire towards the old school British values such as seeking home ownership?
Well yeah. Didn’t people know this already? It’s weird how people automatically assume ethnic minorities in London/UK are worse off than themselves lol. Nope. There are a lot of well-educated and successful peeps. Hard workers with good careers etc. Buying properties for investment purposes. These people are all British citizens btw.
Londonistan
Headline reads like something you’d see written on an EDL pamphlet.
I think this article is referring to foreign investors not Indians living in the UK which is unfair on anyone living here locally . The same issue is happening with Chinese investors and so on , since they are inflating the already hyperbolic estate market .
Some people say Tory policies but I haven’t seen labour clamping down on this so called investors .
If you are a politician money talks !
Given that any attempt to define who is “English” will instantly run into the problem that any definition which does not include every Indian and Pakistani in England will be dismissed as not “inclusive” enough I wonder where these people get their figures for who is “English” as against who is Indian or Pakistani or for that matter Colombian or haitian?
If by “English” we can assume they mean something like “white people who were born to white English parents and speak English as a mother tongue” then it is hardly news that such people are a minority and a declining minority in London where the only arbiter of who lives there is money.
“England” may be a quaint and anachronistic notion but money is very very real and very very now.
Quick question…why are we letting foreign buyers muscle out people who actually live in London for homes during a huge decades long societal crisis?
It blows my mind why people think this is a good idea, I want a house…can afford at these prices but I straight up refuse to buy a market that is pumped infinitely.
The housing market like any market has a limit, housing more so because well when it gets too extreme for the local economy you get huge issues with demand