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[email protected] · September 9th 15, 12:54 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Robin9) wrote:

;150066 Wrote:
In article , (Roland
Perry)
wrote:
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In message , at 19:50:44 on Mon,
7 Sep 2015, Robin9 remarked:
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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.-

The high figures in the 1960s are deceptive. A lot of houses were
demolished as "slums" at the same time so the net figures weren't so
impressive.

. . . and that is why I've always suspected there was corruption. The fact
that perfectly good houses were sometimes demolished to make room for
pretty much the same number of new dwellings indicates that people on high
were not primarily concerned to provide homes to the homeless, but instead
had an interest in creating building projects.

Not just suspicions, my boy! My local Housing Committee Chairman, Sid Sporle
of Battersea and then Wandsworth was convicted of accepting bribes. from T
Dan Smith. Smith was acquitted.

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Colin Rosenstiel