Tonight on Tisky's Sour, we're talking about Boris Johnson's desperate housing plans,

where streetings transpire and pitch to the left, and Paul Mason going off the depend.

To discuss these hot topics, I'm joined by Aaron Bostani, how you doing Aaron?

I'm very well Michael, what an interesting week we've had, very happy we can talk about it here

in Ruffiawana Friday night. Fresh from his near-death experience in the House of Commons earlier

in the week, Boris Johnson has given a speech in Blackpool where he announced a package of shiny

new housing policies. For four decades, it has been possible for council home tenants to use a

discount to buy the property they live in. Over that time, almost two million people have been

helped into home ownership. They've switched identities and psychology from being dependent on

the state for every repair, from damp proofing to a new front door, to being in charge of their

own family home, able to make improvements and add value as they please. For various reasons,

the number of tenants who actually use this freedom has been steadily diminishing. So now is the

moment to widen the possibilities and to give greater freedoms to those who yearn to buy.

I want us to deliver on the long-standing commitment made by several governments to extend the

right to buy to housing associations. There is still 1.6 million people, 1.6 million households

living in council homes, but there are now 2.5 million households whose homes belong to housing

associations and they're trapped, they can't buy, they don't have the security of ownership,

they can't treat their home as their own or make the improvements that they want.

And while some housing associations are excellent, others have been known to treat their tenants

with scandalous indifference. So it's time for change. Over the coming months, we will work with

the sector to bring forward a new right to buy scheme. It will work for tenants, giving millions more

the chance to own their own home. It will work for taxpayers, responsibly captive to a level

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