There was a comment in Private Eye that the Conservatives had suggested extending the 'Right to Buy' to housing association tenants in the last seven general elections, too. Really? That would go back to 1983. Yet everybody seems to discuss it as if it were a new idea.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/14/tory-election-manifesto-right-to-buy-housing-association-properties
What these hard working buy-to-let landlords deserve is another taxpayer funded jolly, quite right old chap.