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Old September 8th 15, 10:06 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default North South divide.

In message , at 19:50:44 on Mon, 7
Sep 2015, Robin9 remarked:

In some years they built more than 400,000 houses. Today we can't
manage even 300,000.


That's because Gordon Brown caused a serious recession and people
couldn't easily pay for new houses. Whole "new towns" have been put on
hold as a result.
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Roland Perry