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What, you mean like buying a Porsche every time your bonus comes in and snorting cocaine through a £50 note as the city wide boys have come to expect? Or having enough to feed and clothe our children, and put a roof over their heads as the rest of us struggle to do?"

The rush into home ownership, by people who simply could not afford mortgages was one of the typical symptoms of capitalism in the raw.
The mad idea that owning ones home meant financial security, when the exact opposite was the case.

With the new homes came a very expensive lifestyle, décor furnishings etc......it was win win for the system and big future losses for Joe Bloggs when it all went arse up!