Estate agents have been put at the heart of Britain's recovery. We should be worried | Polly Toynbee

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The deification of the property market should alarm those hoping for a more equal post-coronavirus society, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Everyone thinks they have “common sense”, but Boris Johnson’s may not be the same as yours or mine. But if you think it’s blindingly self-evident that only social democratic solutions can rebuild an economy plummeting into waters deeper than those of the South Sea bubble, beware. Prepare for a fight against the “common sense” of old enemies, battling not to return to the inequality-fuelling, environment-destroying normal, but to make it far worse.

 

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Estate agents the same old world and the old mistakes! The housing market is over. There is no more easy making money. We need to start from ground zero with sustainable real economic plan!

And Nadine Dorries, Health Minister? Run for the hills, lads!

Britain? I think you mean England as it doesnt apply to Northern Ireland or Scotland. Dunno about Wales. Is this another case of the English thinking they speak for all the UK? I like you Polly and tbh I thought you would be better than this.

Do they really believe mortgage companies are going to approve mortgage applications with millions on the knife-edge of redundancy? They are going to demand hefty deposits to protect themselves from a housing market crash.

It’ll be car salesman next !?!

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