In the same week as he was struggling to recall the name of one of his fellow conference speakers, Grant Shapps is in the news again today claiming in an article within the web based Estate Agents Today that he has now set a very precise timetable for the ‘scrapping’ of Home Information Packs.
Out goes the same day revocation and in comes a three months timetable commitment to see the end of the HIP within a very precise period of 100 days.
His obsession with the pack comprising legal documents and carbon reducing energy performance certificates is unremitting and is now coming across as a very personal crusade.
As mentioned before I fail as a lawyer to see how he can deliver this commitment, given no statutory power is available to him, or rather Caroline Spellman, to bring the HIP to an end. Primary legislation would be required that would take much longer, probably 18 months or longer.
He knows this, we know this, and therefore we must question his motive for spinning these unfounded statements. I have a theory. Is this all part and parcel of a master plan designed for the purpose of bringing to a standstill in spring of next year the ongoing recovery of the property market?
By saying the HIP is going, and tirelessly repeating this at every opportunity, along with the pledge of reducing the stamp duty threshold, is the Conservative Party deliberately engineering a situation that could if not stopped derail the property market as well as the Government’s wider game plan to get us out of recession. What right thinking person is going to market their home or purchase a home in the early part of next year, when they are being encouraged by Mr. Shapps to wait ( and pray) in the hope that if the Conservative Party if elected in either March or May moving home will , according to him, be cheaper.
I am not usually a believer in conspiracy theories, but it does make you wonder when it must be going through their minds that if the economy continues to pick up, options to attack the Government and improve their chances at the Poll will clearly begin to diminish.
As always the net effect of this political game is uncertainty for businesses, loss of jobs and the possibility of us finding ourselves deeper in recession that we were this time last year.
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