There isn't any "will" and that's from JLR but just 'could's' and 'perhaps' yet your favourite rag apart from Guido reports it as if it were definite and a future Brexit success story.

I make it that they and you are desperate for any good news even if that good news is, as it stands, hollow.

Or Wilfrid scores a goal

I don't agree that in the vast majority of cases, the hard-working but less well-off should be paying the mortgages of the hard-working but better-off while also trying to save for a home of their own.
And among the second home owners that i personally know, 'luck/circumstance' has played a far far bigger part than 'graft'. 90% of them wouldn't know a hard days work if it slapped them in the face.

TUX.... if those people with second homes hadn't bothered to create/upgrade them from nothing or uninhabitable shells often, there would be even less housing stock.

We both know that this is the exception rather than the rule.

Most people I know that own 2nd or more homes have worked hard to provide the capital to buy them in the first place then worked all hours of the day/night on them developing skills such as building/plumbing/electrics. And often tenants have fcuked off owing rent and causing damage to the property like one I know who tried to fiddle the gas meter and caused an explosion.

See above.

The way you tell it, it is a breeze to rock up to a property, buy it and rent it out.... if it were that easy more would be doing it.

I've agreed to ignore him.