It really drives me mad.
A few days ago we had the ConDems pretending to be building 'Affordable Homes' - which of course don't exist.
Now we have Jude Robinson telling us how Labour were so brilliant at building non-existent 'Affordable Homes'.
There is no such thing as Affordable Housing in Cornwall (that ordinary people can actually afford) according to Westminster definitions. It is an indictment of the Westminster unionist parties that they have the gall and cynicism to squabble over which of them is trying to sort out the housing crisis. Give us a proper definition of Affordable - one that relates to what the word means - and then tell us what you have done to address the problem.
MK believe that the only way to sort this problem out is to abandon the Tory policies of the Tories and the Torylite policies of the Lib Dems and Labour, and build houses for public ownership or that are not dependent on developers having to make a big profit to get them built.
The house building market is not building because the market is shot. Developers can't make a profit so they don't build - market forces in action.
Westminster believes in subsidising developers profits to build homes that only MPs and people earning more than them can afford.
MK believes that Cornwall should be offering a fair price for a good quality product where it is required to meet a local need.
Agree with you on this one, even if the Conservative led govt is worse than Labour that's no great yardstick. They failed to restart building council houses stoppedby the Tories. Also in Cornwall the housing situation got much much worse during the Labour years, as prices rose and rose and wages crept up slowly.
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