Theresa sees the light, finds the tree

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"Theresa May to unveil plans to build more council homes"

"The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the focus on council housing underlines Mrs May's readiness to intervene and use the public sector to build houses in a way not seen since the 1950s.

Damian Green, the prime minister's deputy, said the move marks "a significant change" for a Conservative government and "a rebirth of council house building".

"We believe in building more homes and we think we need to do this to meet the demand for all types, including council houses as well," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We're going to make it easier for councils to build new houses for rent as well. The councils' concerns, the things that hold them back, will be part of the announcement - and what we expect this to do is start a rebirth of council house building.""

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41493370

I believe this is what the right wing press have been describing as "taking the country back to the 1950's

She must be looking for votes.

Did she mention a magic money tree?
 
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Look forward to a change of tack from the cons who previously said:

"Labour 'would take the country back to the 1970s'" The Torygraph

"Corbyn’s Marxist policies will inevitably lead us back to where Britain was in the late 1970s.”" Chancellor Hammond

"Jeremy Corbyn's mad plan would take Britain back to the 1970s," The Express

"Leaked Labour manifesto reveals plans to take Britain back to the 1970s" The Daily Wail
 
I do wonder where the land for all these houses is coming from? Use up all the agricultural land and what is the UK going to eat to live?

Oh well - there is alway Cannibalism...

And then that should solve the population problem (A.K.A polictically correct "housing shortage")...
 
What percentage of UK land do you think has houses on it?

How many empty plots of land with planning permission do you think developers own, lying idle?

How many "second homes" and homes owned by people living out of the country for years, so you think there are in, for example, Kensington & Chelsea?
 
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The tremendous hype from the tory Stun before the speech....

MayHousing1.jpg


look at the numbers on the right...
 
turns out to be nothing but what notch and doggit think is called a damp squid...

Mayhousing2.jpg


May team admit to press huddle that extra social housing money will build 25k homes over 5 years - so 5k a year.
 
U-turn after U-turn

Tories U-turn on plan to build more socially rented council housing
Plan to build genuinely affordable homes ditched by housing minister
  • Friday 2 June 2017 19:00 BST
"The Conservatives have U-turned on a flagship pledge to build “a new generation” of social housing announced in their manifesto just weeks ago.

Theresa May personally promised her policy would deliver “a constant supply of new homes for social rent”, but her housing minister has now admitted planned homes would in fact be of a significantly less affordable type.

The embarrassing admission represents the second about-turn on a Conservative manifesto pledge, after the damaging furore around the “dementia tax”."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...general-election-2017-manifesto-a7769866.html
 
I've heard it said about football managers,

Better to be a lucky manager, than a good one.

Given her display at conference, she's neither.
 
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