Labours Living Wage Plan Will Boost Economy - Fairness And Equality

antrobus

Generali wrote: »

Dunno. I do. I once went out with that girl from The New Avengers you know.

New Avengers? Pfff! I'd take Honor Blackman any day of the week.:)

Generali wrote: »

...That is amazing. It shows how misrepresented the old girl was.

Yes, it's quite a surprising result.

martinsurrey wrote: »

...Looked at like that the numbers aren’t quite as rosy as you paint.

'Rosy' isn't quite the word I would used to describe the stats.

Granted you can have lots of arguments about lead times, and who is responsible for what. But then, as you admit, it doesn't change the fact that Thatcher built more LA/HA houses than Blair did.

And of course it doesn't take into account the fact that between 1980 and 1989 the UK population increased from 56.3m to 57.1m, or about 750,000, whilst between 1998 and 2007 the UK population increased from 58.5m to 61.0m or 1,500,000. So there were twice as many extra people to house in the Blair decade, but fewer extra houses were built to accomodate them. (So now you know why the price of housing shot up.:))

martinsurrey wrote: »

...and if you look at the number of right to buy sales, which she introduced, it was over a million by 1987 and 1.3m by 1990, so there were 900,000 LESS HA/council
houses after her than before.

I don't think that anyone is challenging that. But those houses didn't disappear. People carried on living in them.