Silence Of Politicians

[armorique4]

Considering Tony Blair, the cabinet and the shadow cabinet are quite happy to weigh in with their opinion on every trivial/secondarily important issue from foxhunting to burkas to the exact proportion of elected seats in the House of Lords and often over-react in response, why is there an absence of acknowledgement from the government that the planning and credit system has led to a housing crisis affecting vast numbers of the population? When was the issue last seriously addressed by them in the media, without reference to some kind of trivial sop such as shared homeownership?

Acknowledgement in the budget speech would be a good start, together with some kind of realistic counter-measure.

If "green" measures are viable to conteract force of nature, it can't be that difficult to regulate credit and planning further? For a government that tries to regulate everything else............

[skhudy]

TB wants to go out with a bang, the most successfull Labour PM ever, why rock the boat? When the sh1t hits the fan GB will be in, or people will have woken up and the Tory's will be picking up the pieces

[IMHAL]

Considering Tony Blair, the cabinet and the shadow cabinet are quite happy to weigh in with their opinion on every trivial/secondarily important issue from foxhunting to burkas to the exact proportion of elected seats in the House of Lords and often over-react in response, why is there an absence of acknowledgement from the government that the planning and credit system has led to a housing crisis affecting vast numbers of the population? When was the issue last seriously addressed by them in the media, without reference to some kind of trivial sop such as shared homeownership?

Acknowledgement in the budget speech would be a good start, together with some kind of realistic counter-measure.

If "green" measures are viable to conteract force of nature, it can't be that difficult to regulate credit and planning further? For a government that tries to regulate everything else............

Hate to state the obvious...... NuLabour just don't care - they have roofs over their heads - these guys are happy to re-arrange the deck chairs while the Titanic goes down because they have guaranteed salaries and pensions.

Seriously - until there are people on the streets either rioting or sleeping rough or the media get onto the band wagon they wont even bring the subject up.

60k affordable houses huh!! Fat Jags did the opposite of building homes he set about demolishing perfectley good old houses - how that for feckless.

I can't wait for this government to get what it deserves - and it aint nice.

HAL

[DabHand]

No they do care. They care that it persists as its the only thing going for our current economy. When HPI ends so does this economic miracle..and shortly after NuLabs tenure at number 10.