Boris Johnson - lowering immigration would threaten housing equity

Turnbull2000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9748942/Boris-Johnson-keeping-out-immigrants-to-reduce-house-prices-illogical.html

Well I never. Just earlier today I posted this in another thread...

Good piece in the Times today on how property prices (or the impact on) essentially dictate our economy, infrastructure and even energy policy - and will continue to do so. The conclusion was that clamping down on large scale immigration would dampen house prices, so will likely continue unabated.

Current political trends suggest this will continue to be the case.

the_flying_pig

it was entirely reasonable of you to post a link to this, since it's coming from the mayor, but it's clearly not conclusive, when the home sec is arguing the other way.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Boris Johnson has slapped down the Home Secretary over claims that Britain should reduce immigration to help bring down property prices.

The London Mayor said he does not think it is "sensible" to try to keep people out of the country in in order to let house prices fall.

Quite right.

The Tories in cabinet are looking increasingly desperate as they flail around in ever more bizarre contortions pandering to the extremist right wing of their party in an effort to avoid a catastrophic defeat at the next election.

moneyinmypocket

Just another bit of proof that those who run the country will NEVER allow a HPC - the only way this country will grow is with hpi at its centre

the_flying_pig

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Quite right.

The Tories in cabinet are looking increasingly desperate as they flail around in ever more bizarre contortions pandering to the extremist right wing of their party in an effort to avoid a catastrophic defeat at the next election.

pull the other one, H.

boris is a politician without a shred of, well, lots of things but in particular he is the most arch, most extreme, populist ever. he'll happily cheerlead HPI on a monday & then bang the drum for more affordable housing on tuesday, just because he's that kind of guy, he's aiming for the lowest common denominator, pretending that it's possible to please everyone.

nothing that he says ever means anything other than 'i'd like people to vote for me'.

Graham_Devon

It surprises me they are arguing over house prices to be honest. Why did Terese May even mention it? I'm not sure of the context.

Surely there are a few more pressing things that come with the whole immigration issue?

And wasn't Boris, just after the Olympics, standing on a poduim explaining the virtues of affordable housing for all Londoners!?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

the_flying_pig wrote: »

nothing that he says ever means anything other than 'i'd like people to vote for me'.

Nothing any of them says ever means anything more than "I'd like people to vote for me".

However Boris seems to be able to pull off election wins without appeasing the racists and xenophobes on the far right.

I've always voted Conservative.

I won't be doing so at the next election, and given Labours double digit lead in the polls, neither will millions of others.

A._Badger

You may have voted Conservative, Hamish, but you are, most assuredly, not a conservative..

You will probably take that as a compliment.

Road_Hog

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The Tories in cabinet are looking increasingly desperate as they flail around in ever more bizarre contortions pandering to the extremist right wing of their party in an effort to avoid a catastrophic defeat at the next election.

!!!!!!? What extremist hard Left communist rubbish is this?

Did you read the Census infor this week, that said that only 45% of Londoners are white-British?

Immigration is causing massive wage deflation for the lower paid and putting huge demands on building on Green Belt land.

Do you think that that is good?

Road_Hog

Turnbull2000 wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9748942/Boris-Johnson-keeping-out-immigrants-to-reduce-house-prices-illogical.html

Well I never. Just earlier today I posted this in another thread...

BoJo is a Lefty in disguise (as is CamSham) who went to the most communist college at oxford, called Balliol.

movilogo

More immigrants = more housing, more looking away from underlying problem => longer it runs, politicians' gravy train continues.

One day the bubble has to burst. IMHO, sooner it bursts better is for us and future generation.

As an analogy, we can stop now and treat the patients but the way our politicians are going, they rather prefer to kill the patient rather than providing proper treatment.