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Originally Posted by Carth
Lots of new 'starter homes'* being built around here by companies hand in hand with the local housing mob, (which used to be the council and now has another name, so costs, responsibility and accountability are lost somewhere in the usual goalpost moving thing), and any small plot of unused land is fair game.
Actually there are a great number of pubs and social clubs that have closed due to - well that's another argument - and have been demolished to enable 'affordable'* housing to be built in their place.
* small boxy type things equivalent to 2 storey rabbit hutches, complete with parking space for a fiat 500 and 1.5m square garden
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That wasn't the Government commitment, was it?
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So you prefer jfman's view of the world?
Good luck with that.
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Listen to yourself! They hate the poor? None of the Conservatives I know hate the poor, and neither do I. I'm beginning to think that you have a perception problem.
There are still a few countries practising Communism around the world, and look how they've looked after their populations. Corbyn and McDonnell are Marxists. They have admitted it, so don't argue about it!
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I'm quoting Dominic Cummings, a man so perceptive he's leading strategic output in Number 10 for Brexit.
It's not a preference for my view of the world, as you put it, it's a preference for reality. Austerity was a political choice to punish the poor for the financial excesses of the banking sector.