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Originally Posted by Hugh
My niece can't afford to rent in certain (quite a lot, actually) parts of London, and she has a reasonably paid job, so she has 40-50 minute tube journeys at the beginning and end of each day, but I don't hear anyone calling for support for people like her and her peer group....
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I think this is the issue a lot of people want addressed. People with reasonable to high salaries still can't afford to look at buying and now even renting.
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Originally Posted by Osem
That sentiment would have a great deal more credibility if Labour hadn't spent their entire 13 year term in office blaming the Major govt. and Thatcher's before it for one thing or another. Comparing the state of the nation in 1997 to 2010 only serves to emphasise the point. Labour had it easier, had the time and the parliamentary majority to do whatever they wanted and they still cocked it up as they always do.
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Well that was either wrong then and wrong now or if it's a valid argument now then it was a valid argument then.
Anyway it needs to be on a issue-by-issue basis. There is no sign that the current Government is serious about fixing the issues on housing and the schemes are designed to inflate the housing market further rather than address it.