Grant Shapps is at it again! Taking the Home Information Pack, mocking its purpose and in the process gaining some cheap and totally unnecessary publicity. This time we have Shapps engaging in some early Christmas wrapping! Taking some red ribbon he decided it would be good fun to wrap this around a house in Hendon in an effort to symbolise ‘red tape’ and ‘bureaucracy’
In a ceremony more akin to the opening of new Library, Shapps is reported to have cut the ribbon and once again treated the press (those who were actually interested) to a repeat of his groaning about how he and his Party will make sure the HIP is scrapped if he is fortunate enough to be elected into a Government post.
Not content with this he also had available a number of ‘friendly’ supporters who primed with propaganda told the world (well the world of Hendon) that the HIP was costing an ‘arm and a leg’ and that it was an unnecessary expense.
The report quotes Locksmith David Wright, 55, whose house in Meadow Drive was wrapped in ribbon for the event, said HIPs did not tell them anything a survey wouldn't have.
He and his wife Helen, 40, are selling the house and moving to Bedfordshire, but they said the scheme had been a waste of £300 for them and the people he was buying from.
Hang on Mr Wright, are you saying the HIP contains nothing a survey on the property would not have told you? Surely Shapps would have enlightened you that the HIP does not contain any structural report and in fact is a bundle of legal documents together with the energy performance certificate that you would have needed and paid for in any event.
Bet Shapps also omitted to tell you that the cost of moving home under a conservative government will cost you more. The HIP has kept the price of home selling and buying down but, hey, be prepared to pay up to 40% more when the HIP goes!
The article also says the HIP has slowed the selling process down and an agent is quoted to say it takes longer to get a house on the market. As with most of this propaganda this is nonsense! The HIP has quickened the process and the honest agents out there will tell you that from point of order to marketing the process does not normally take more than 48 hours.
It is a shame that Shapps, one of our more intelligent and forward thinking MPs, has had to resort to a cheap and misleading publicity stunt to get a message that everyone in the industry knows! Someone this morning complained that I write like a tabloid journalist and needed to be more professional! Perhaps this criticism was mis-directed? The full article can be found at : http://bit.ly/63PT1o
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