Those on the left fell for the property dream too

‘As your editorial notes, the dream of a property-owning democracy has inflated prices and had a ripple effect, forcing up private-sector rents. As a result, both ownership and renting have become unaffordable.’ Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

As one of many working people with no prospect of ever being able to buy a home in their lifetime, I welcome your editorial (The Guardian view on a property-owning democracy: Tory dream becomes a nightmare, 12 January). Large numbers of us have been suffering from this inequality-fostering system for 20 years or more, but it is only now that it is affecting upper-middle-class circles that it is being talked about.

Those on the left should not kid themselves, though – property ownership as a way to make money and to go up that toxic ladder has not just been a Tory dream (just take a look at the comments from Guardian readers under the editorial).