The Labour Government

daveoswald said:
The Tories haven't built any houses because they are a political party not Barret homes, again how many migrants do you want, currently running at over five hundred thousand a year, supply and demand keeps rents and house prices unaffordable for young people. The recent demographics of sub-Saharan shows the population over a billion with hundreds of millions planning to move to Europe. How many do you think the UK can take in? ten, twenty, thirty million?
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Do you have a plan to stop migrants being necessary for our economy?
 
frothy said:
You all think it's going to be a land of milk and honey, you are in for a fucking big shock, sort your pensions out because they will be out to get you, again
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Obviously, the last 14 years was a stroll in the park with its smörgåsbord of increased VAT, a decade of Austerity failing to pay a single penny down on the National Debt (which trebled), the managed decline of the NHS and most other public services, the deliberate shrinking of local government and the Civil Service, an increase in food banks, swingeing police cuts, Big Society by the back door, a war on trade unions and democracy, a failure to build anything like enough houses, a massive increase in mortgage rates for those who've got a house, crashing the economy, wages stagnating, a rise in homelessness, a rise in the prison population, a rise in foodbanks and those who use them, partying while we stayed at home and friends and family members died alone. And the abject failure of Brexit.

Don't talk to me about big shocks FFS.
 
Jonathan Reynolds on now saying even legal migration numbers must come down.
 
daveoswald said:
The Tories haven't built any houses because they are a political party not Barret homes, again how many migrants do you want, currently running at over five hundred thousand a year, supply and demand keeps rents and house prices unaffordable for young people. The recent demographics of sub-Saharan shows the population over a billion with hundreds of millions planning to move to Europe. How many do you think the UK can take in? ten, twenty, thirty million?
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"This will see us build at least a million more homes, of all tenures, in the next Parliament" (2019 Tory manifesto) - and "we will build 40 new hospitals".

I've no idea what source you have for "recent demographics of sub-Saharan (Africa?)" but it sounds like a Faragist nonsense (like the entire population of Turkey would move to the UK if they joined the EU).

Most Africans migration is within Africa (thanks to Freedom of Movement agreements between many African countries).

Restoring the 0.7% foreign aid budget and stemming the international arms trade would help too. But having canvassed a flat on Thursday now occupied by an African engineer who's working for UU on stopping shit going in rivers, I'm sure we could happily recruit some African bricklayers to answer all the adverts on building sites.

www.bbc.co.uk

African migration: Five things we've learnt

Many young people want to leave but often for other African countries, a new survey shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
Vic said:
I've no idea how immigration became a factor in the post about a Labour council's housebuilding record, but the population of Leeds has been going up by about 6,000 a year and they and private developers have been building about 3,000 houses a year.

The Tories have failed to build enough new houses. MPs representing NIMBYism forced them to drop targets.

I really hope you're not going to be spreading cynicism before the new government has done anything toward fulfilling its housing policies.
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That fact is we haven't been building enough houses since the late 80s early nineties. In the 70s and 80s we were building between 250,000 and 350,000 houses a year, and our population at the time was going up very slowly.

House building numbers declined in the late 80s and early 90s to an average approximately 160,000 homes a year, where it has stubornly stayed. Even through the labour government.
 
The Government needs to nationalise the Port Talbot steel works and retain the blast furnaces. We need to retain our ability to make steel from iron ore which is a critical infrastructure component, an essential ingredient in not becoming reliant on other nations to make our steel. Otherwise we will just have some steel recycling centres.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
That fact is we haven't been building enough houses since the late 80s early nineties. In the 70s and 80s we were building between 250,000 and 350,000 houses a year, and our population at the time was going up very slowly.

House building numbers declined in the late 80s and early 90s to an average approximately 160,000 homes a year, where it has stubornly stayed. Even through the labour government.
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Crazy when where I live it’s just constant building new estates after new estates with roads and traffic getting worse by the day.
 
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