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muriel_volestrangler

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10. Nationally, Labour cannot build houses without getting back into power

Reply to Drew Peacock (Reply #9)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 10:22 AM

Oct 2014

and to do that, it has to talk about its policies. If it talks about housing policy, it hopes people will put it back into power.

Locally, councils are largely prevented from building houses themselves by national laws about council spending. Labour had the blame for that between 1997 and 2010; since then, it's the coalition.

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Spot on this, imo [View all] Drew Peacock Oct 2014 OP

Bullshit. Pure Blairite bullshit. T_i_B Oct 2014 #1

Well we must agree to differ but.... Drew Peacock Oct 2014 #2

No. T_i_B Oct 2014 #3

"How do you address the housing shortage without a housing policy?" Drew Peacock Oct 2014 #4

Pfft! T_i_B Oct 2014 #6

Do you know what T_i_B Drew Peacock Oct 2014 #7

What do you mean by "the focus should be on the houses, rather than the policy itself"? muriel_volestrangler Oct 2014 #8

Perhaps I should have said, Drew Peacock Oct 2014 #9

Nationally, Labour cannot build houses without getting back into power muriel_volestrangler Oct 2014 #10

Well, to be honest,being Julia Gillard's ex-director of communications isn't such a recommendation.. LeftishBrit Oct 2014 #5

Progress is a cancer in the Labour Party Anarcho-Socialist Oct 2014 #11

I find it unimpressive, I'm afraid. Donald Ian Rankin Oct 2014 #12