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Budget 2013: 'UK government should build more homes'
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tonitarzan wrote: »New homes are needed, did anyone read the BBC article today saying that 50,000 new homes are going to be built to meet needs
Hi, welcome to the site. (first post in a hidden forum)
Please see post 1 in reference to your query.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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IveSeenTheLight wrote: »Sorry, missed this edit.
Your post comes accross (for me anyway) as having an air of resignation.
Would you consider that it is a good opportunity to buy should you have the access to funds?
The air of resignation is true.
It's because I've come to accept that this government will do absolutely nothing. Such is the shocking state of politics at the moment the opposition can't even wipe the floor with them...probably due to the fact they would do the exact same. They are so wrapped up in scoring points and votes they don't appear to want to plan any further than months ahead.
When is a government in this country going to make a decision and DO something. Something other than spending our money on stimulus and enquries into everything?
We have a petroleum storage issue....within 4 days the country will be shut down - get on and sort it out. We used to have over 20 days in the 70's.
We have a national grid problem. Get on and sort it out instead of turning every UK citizen around, pulling their trousers down and instructing them to bend over in the direction of the French.
We have a water problem - get on and sort it out. Other countries have.
We have a transport problem, especially trains....sort the trains out instead of this nonsense of HS2 which will take years longer than envisaged....having to undergo the issues thrown at it from several different political agenda's as time passes. We spending 100's of thousands of pounds on enquries and legal battles becaue the government won't just do something and sort it out. Look at the virgin fiasco. More enquries, more legal costs. It's just never ending incompetence with the provate sector pitted against the public.
We have a housing problem - get on and sort it out. Build some houses! We have the land, we have the money, we have the materials, we have the labour. Just do it.
What happened to what the country used to do? The victorians would be completely baffled by us.0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Providing it went into "social housing" directly rather than private landlords and private hands then it would probably be a good measure.
Not so sure this constant drive for private buyers only is the only answer to the problem.
It doesn't matter if they are "social houses" or not. The South East just needs more houses and then they will become more affordable.0 -
IveSeenTheLight wrote: »The government doesn't want the responsibility of 'social housing'.
Modern social housing is run by private businesses
So in essence, when the talk about private rentals, it encompasses individual landlords, professional letting companies and social housing companies
I appreciate that. Perhaps we need something different."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »The air of resignation is true.
It's because I've come to accept that this government will do absolutely nothing. Such is the shocking state of politics at the moment the opposition can't even wipe the floor with them...probably due to the fact they would do the exact same. They are so wrapped up in scoring points and votes they don't appear to want to plan any further than months ahead.
Don't be like that. You'd be surprised at what you can do.
My local council had a consultation about their budget. Pretty much no-one responded giving weight to the views of the very small numbers of people that did.
The general public disinterest in politics means it's a great time to engage and get special interests on the agenda.0 -
It doesn't matter if they are "social houses" or not. The South East just needs more houses and then they will become more affordable.
I am happy to subsidise "social housing" where there is a social need and it is controlled but I am not happy ploughing more into purely private hands. Housing benefits into profits doesn't seem like good value to me as a tax payer. I might just as well post you £20 a week.
If the free market works then let it work."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
IveSeenTheLight wrote: »The government doesn't want the responsibility of 'social housing'.
I'm sure they don't want the responsibility of wars either, but there we go, that's what the job entails.
It's not what the government want, it should be what we want. I think most people want access to secure homes. It's a relative few who would be against this....unfortunately the relative few have the majority of the say.
This shows through when MP's who couldn't really give a damn about PPI mis sales and outright fraud suddenly fund themselves outraged that BTL's outgoings may go up.0 -
We need more homes, that can't be denied, but my worry is they will be of low quality, high cost!0
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Thrugelmir wrote: »I'm sure the[STRIKE] NIMBY's[/STRIKE] banksters will stop any such plans.
Fixed that for you.
Builders won't build what they can't sell.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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