Affordable Housing Question Put To Cameron

[Kazuya]

Would a hung parliament REALLY cause a HPC?

[bomberbrown]

Exactly - I refuse to vote for the main parties now.

+1

This will be the first time in my life I have never voted Tory in a GE.

[Guest The Relaxation Suite]

I suppose they'd lose votes if they said they would encourage lower prices.

Sure. You can find the answers to a lot of questions without doing the research, and just listening to politicians' comments instead. We all appreciate that no politician is going to speak what he believes to be true, but only to say what he believes the majority of people want to hear. This is our farce-ocracy. So, from the replies given in debate 3 we know that there are more votes in rising house prices than falling prices. We know this because the boomers all own houses and they are the largest demographic.

If at any point in the future the bulk of vites belongs to people who need to get on the housing ladder, all three main parties will talk of the need to bring prices down asap.

[Dave Spart]

Just watching the campaign coverage on BBC - Cameron is in Cornwall. One guy asks:

'One of the problems in Cornwall is affordable housing. With the Lib Dems' proposal there will be VAT on new builds - what can you guarantee'.

Again, issue totally skirted around.

But how many times during this campaign has this issue been raised now?

Lets get this perfectly clear. The Conservatives are and have always been the party of the land owning vested interests.

For instance here is Kirstie Allsop's background on Wikipedia:

She is the daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and former chairman of Christie's. She has a brother Henry, and two sisters, Sofie and Natasha. Due to her father's peerage, she is entitled to use the title The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp.

She was educated at several schools, including St. Clotilde's in Lechlade, Gloucestershire[2] and Bedales, near Petersfield, Hampshire. After spending time in India teaching English, Allsopp returned to the UK and began a series of positions, working for Country Living and Food & Homes Magazine and her mother's business, Hindlip & Prentice Interiors, and studying at Christie's. Kirstie set up her own Home Search company, Kirmir, in 1996, focusing on top end purchases in Central and West London.[3]

Allsopp is an advisor to the Conservative Party on housing matters.[4]

The Conservatives will not be doing anything to prevent property prices rising, despite whatever platitudes they might mouth. The Conservatives are also the British branch of the US Republican Party and as such are not the party of social justice.

Allsop's entry on Wikipedia also says

House prices

Allsopp has been accused (along with fellow property TV presenters) of fuelling irresponsible house purchases that led to the housing crash.[6][7] Allsopp has defended herself from the charges, writing in The Times that "blaming such shows and their presenters for the present uncertain state of the property market is akin to blaming TV chefs for the great bulge in obesity."[8]

This is sort of mindless irresponsibility you can expect if you vote Conservative. Want that?

I do not support any political party of any kind. Asking me which party to choose is like asking which deck chair I'd like to sit in as the ship goes down. What measures have you heard from any of the parties say, to rein in the activities of Estate Agents? Yet you've heard plenty about Brown's "gaffe". No political party will fix the problems we face as they and the media that pulls their strings are integral parts of a system that must be swept entirely away.

Change the system, not merely the government.

Edited May 3, 2010 by Dave Spart