They would be largely, perhaps completely, offset by the millions of tenants who are now owner-occupiers and therefore much more likely to vote Conservatives. (View Post)

Boris Johnson is the most written off and underestimated politician in my lifetime, though, however competent he may be at governing. I first heard someone write him off in 2008, during his campaign … (View Post)

Unfortunately, people have to want to live in the houses you build, otherwise you just end up building ghost towns, or permanently subsidised ghettoes. So you have to build them in areas people want … (View Post)

I agree, but then again I must have missed the amazing triumph of Labour's housing policy. The only way to solve the housing crisis is to ride roughshod over Nimbys, but neither party has had th… (View Post)

True, but at least they built something eventually, unlike us, who haven't built a new runway in or near London for decades (except the small City Airport). (View Post)