I just read that an increasing number of landlords in east London
are evicting tenants, sometimes illegally, in order to make properties
available to let for the London Olympics – at prices 15-20 times higher than
they’re normally worth. No doubt they see this as perfectly acceptable; we live
in a free market economy, after all.
Edward Heath, a one-time Conservative Prime Minister, once
famously used the phrase ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism.’
Quite. I wonder whether anybody is going to stop them.
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