Help to Buy should be dubbed Help to Vote | Simon Jenkins

George Osborne's crazy scheme is the latest in half a century of political bribery. But Britons never question why home ownership should be subsidised

Help to Buy should be dubbed Help to Vote. George Osborne today promised his party to deliver half a million "hard-working" electors from the dungeons of housing debt to the sunny uplands of Help to Buy. He would shower them with £12 billion of other people's money. He could summon the spirits of Toryism past, but will they come?

The coalition's...