THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY PLAGUE

Getting your toe
On the property ladder
Is so difficult
It’s more of an escalator
Constantly moving
At best just out of reach
More often out of sight
With property values so high
Caused by a shortage
And the housing shortage
Is blamed on many things
Increased immigration
(All needed according to the government)
An ever ageing population
And increased single dwellers
Everything in fact
Rather than the truth
The real cause is greed
To many people owning too many homes
Second and third homes
Property which sit empty
50 weeks a year
Creating ghost towns
Across the country
Briefly inhabited by city dwellers
Who suck the life out of communities
And put nothing back
Shopping at their local hypermarket
Getting fuel on the motorway
And transporting everything they need
Buying nothing in the communities they invade
And the knock on effect
Is to fuel the house price inflation
Which increases the value of their properties
While excluding so many from getting on the ladder
They have ripped the heart from small seaside towns
And destroyed villages and hamlets
Even the great plague couldn’t kill