{"id":3885,"date":"2014-01-05T19:16:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2018-10-31T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:04:30","slug":"3885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"The Leeds Leek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">THE HIGH COST OF HELP-TO-BUY<\/span><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><br \/>\nCritics point out that families may be torn apart<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThe Leek has discovered that the financial assistance scheme to help first time buyers onto the property ladder contains a clause which gives the government possession of homeowners&#8217; children if mortgage payments are not made in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>The housing minister defended the clause, saying &#8220;The government needs reassurances.&#8221; The shadow housing minister said the opposite, which she&#8217;s paid to do.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3888\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cameronkid.jpg\" alt=\"cameronkid\" width=\"430\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cameronkid.jpg 430w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cameronkid-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The hand that gives can also take away<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To show that the policy has teeth, Prime Minister David Cameron personally visited mum Sharon, who is heavily in arrears, to remove her daugher Maisie from the household. Afterwards Mr Cameron tweeted: &#8220;It was lovely to meet you Sharon! You can enjoy your <em>Maisie-nette<\/em> as soon as it&#8217;s paid for.&#8221; Sharon also took to Twitter, writing: &#8220;I&#8217;ll find the money. #pleasedonthurther&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prettygoodbritain.com\/leedsleek.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>more from the Leek<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HIGH COST OF HELP-TO-BUY Critics point out that families may be torn apart The Leek has discovered that the financial assistance scheme to help first time buyers onto the property ladder contains a clause which gives the government possession &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=3885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}