On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:28:06 +0100
David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:06:21AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
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.

I'm more inclined to blame Clement Attlee's green belts. At least in

Without the green belt London would be a vile sprawl like LA and Tokyo by
now. Blame New Labour and its immigration policy for the lack of housing.
You can't dump 8 million new people into a country over 15 years and not
expect there to be housing (and many other) issues. Well, unless you're a
member of the Labour party where common sense is trumped by political dogma
and ideology.

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Spud