Senior Church of England clergy are attacking the ‘immorality’ of forcing housing associations to sell homes to tenants. The Bishop of Manchester David Walker who is passionate about social housing, condemned the Conservatives after David Cameron pledged to extend the right-to-buy to more than 1.3 million tenants of housing associations. The Conservative pledge to extend home ownership to thousands more social housing tenants, which is at the heart of the party's manifesto, has already prompted angry reactions from housing associations and there has even been a threat of a legal challenge under Europe's human rights legislation. Bishop Walker described the plans on Twitter as the ‘most blatant transfer of charity assets to private ownership since Henry VIII sold off the monasteries.’ He also said on Twitter that the plans were ‘economic nonsense’ and immoral.