Imagine this: you finally make it in life, get your hands on that quaint cottage in Cornwall or that converted barn in the Lakes. It\u2019s your retreat, your sanctuary, your bolt-hole from the madness of modern Britain. Lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now picture a headline next year: Sounds absurd, doesn\u2019t it? The kind of thing you\u2019d expect to read in a parody newspaper wedged between articles about UFO sightings and exploding toasters. And yet\u2026 with this government? You can\u2019t rule it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s easy to laugh this off as too wild, too politically suicidal. But look around. We\u2019ve seen policies rushed through in the name of \u201ccrisis management\u201d that, only months earlier, people would have sworn were impossible. Nightingale hospitals? Entire towns locked down by ministerial decree? Stranger things have happened, and often faster than anyone imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So don\u2019t be too quick to scoff. That charming stone cottage with the sea view might just be the next \u201cgovernment solution.\u201d After all, desperate politicians do desperate things \u2014 and this lot are running low on both money and ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHope isn\u2019t what they promise you. It\u2019s how you carry on when they don\u2019t deliver.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Dave Carrera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine this: you finally make it in life, get your hands on that quaint cottage in Cornwall or that converted barn in the Lakes. It\u2019s your retreat, your sanctuary, your bolt-hole from the madness of modern Britain. Lovely. Now picture a headline next year:\u201cGovernment Purchases All Second Homes to House Asylum Seekers.\u201d Sounds absurd, doesn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[227,297,217],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-future","tag-policy","tag-uk-government"],"yoast_head":"\n
\u201cGovernment Purchases All Second Homes to House Asylum Seekers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWhy They Might<\/em> Do It<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nWhy It\u2019s a Terrible Idea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThe Warning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n