Oh God spare me the lying Prime Minister

What’s being built anywhere is down to developers and the local planning department, not the government.

In Glasgow there seems to be wild enthusiasm for building student accommodation (the modern day single end), while on the outskirts it is all detached 4 and 5 bedroom luxury homes.
Little is being built between those two extremes as far as I can see.
The Conservative Party think the heads of the hoi polloi button up the back.

MayBee70

Does he lie in bed at night thinking these things up?

And we have a new slogan, folks! We Are On Your Side.

I am planning to add this to Big Calls. Draw a Line Under, Move On, Serving the British People, Delivering to the British People and Levelling Up.

A pound for each time I hear one of these and I'll be able to put some fuel in my car and keep warm this winter. A Johnson Jar instead of a Swear Jar.

Struggling to understand how this proposed sell off of housing association homes to people receiving housing benefit (and little capital for a deposit) will work. Another sub prime mortage bonanza for city gamblers may be?

As ever, a wide ranging speech devoid of detail. But fear not. According to his interview on Talk TV earlier, Magic Michael Gove will replace each home sold with a replacement "instantly". One for Pedants' Corner to discuss the meaning of that. As we are still waiting for the 300,000 new homes a year promised in the 2019 election manifesto, in the parallel universe I feel I have slipped into, does "instantly" really mean more than two years or, indeed, never?

Conversion of offices into residential accommodation has been made easier by the current government ayse, but it’s down to the owners and tenants to want to do it.

NotSpaghetti

Yes ayse - and we also need security of tenure as in countries such as Germany.

Absolutely agree.

For his latest wheeze to get off the ground the government will have to get the mortgage lenders on board. Good luck with that.

Yes ayse - and we also need security of tenure as in countries such as Germany.

It’s certainly not going to solve the housing crisis. What is needed is more social housing, rent control, minimum housing standards and affordable housing for key workers, especially in the South East and increasingly the M4 corridor. It’s just another sound bite and is pretty meaningless.

How about converting all these part occupied offices into housing? It’s just the same old, same old …

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61739816

Does he lie in bed at night thinking these things up?

I haven’t heard the speech. What’s he said?

And he repeatedly gets away with it!

Because he is allowed to, that is why.