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by joosters 2000 days ago
> The UK, for historic reasons, doesn’t believe in private property for the common man

On the contrary, the UK is deeply obsessed with house ownership! The key word though is 'house', the Grenfell related scandals have all been about large blocks of flats, where the residents will almost certainly be leaseholders, with the actual building owned by someone else (probably a company)