Tuesday, Jun 05, 2007
Hopefully more house building
Guardian: Brown promises new house-building programme
"Mr Brown acknowledged that there was a "huge problem" with housing in the UK and pledged a new building programme, including council housing and affordable homes."
Posted by confused76 @ 11:18 PM (120 views) Add Comment
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1. paul said...
*Yawn*. The weather's a bit cooler today. I was hoping for a run of dry weather.
2. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
Did he say it because he truly intends to do it or because he wants to build goodwill and political capital?
How many people still believe what you say is important, rather than just expedient?
Press-release politics feels to me like a robbery of trust.
Maybe I'm a stickler, but to say something you have no intention or means to deliver is a lie.
3. talking rot said...
I'm sure this Glubberment initiative will be as well planned and executed as, say, HIPS; Property investments in SIPPs; the NHS; the Police; the war in Iraq etc - need I continue.
Oh, can they find a bunch of unelected experts to advise the officials behind it on the way in which people want to live because the public are clearly incapable of making this decision. One only has to look at such delights as Milton Keynes and Telford to see perfect examples of how life and soul can be built into new towns.
4. harold said...
Brown is an irrelevant pawn. All his "I'll save the world" policy announcements are just window dressing.
5. Ticktock said...
Quote - It is wrong that people on modest incomes cannot afford to buy.
..... but it is not wrong that the market has been allowed to blow up to the point of bursting and that, in order to buy, an unrepayable debt must be incurred by our young families?
It seems that Mr. Brown is to focuss on 'enabling' people to aquire this unrepayable debt a little bit easier (shared ownership nonsense etc) rather than actually attempting to fix the problem. Why not 20x income borrowing or something that? That would solve the problem as Mr. Brown presents it.
The 'affordability' problem is really an 'over valuation' problem as Mr. Brown will be well aware.
Setting up a 'stable' economy that hugely benefits some over others, and that prevents you from really resolving this social catastrophy, will have far worse concequences than the chattering classes have yet had the fore-sight to imagine.
You will reap what you have sown (and then some that you didn't too)
6. Seenitallbefore said...
Brown would wouldn't he? Christ these people - even after 10 years of cockups - still really think people buy this crap..where exactly is he going build them? Name places , I suppose he'll get his top aide and Super toubleshooter Ruth Kelly on the case post haste. Ha.Ha. Ha........with a bit of Yvette Cooper thrown in to the mix for good measure.....the dynamic dyo......Ha. Ha. Ha....