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Mrs Bucket's avatar

Of course mass immigration is the issue, the numbers are vast. And they are having way more kids than Brits now. Analyse births minus deaths of different ethnicities and the 'natives' have been static for decades. Kent, for example was plus 16 new kids, yes 16, in 2022. But it's waycist to mention any of this so the crisis gets bigger and bigger, just what the hard left wants, chaos.

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Larry Quantz's avatar

Not from England. I looked at the first two listings, is there a law that prevents full sliding glass doors in the shower?

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Liu Bob's avatar

Was Starmer's father a simple tool-maker? It has been written that he actually owned a tool-making factory, which hardly makes him working class does it.........

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Nicholas Bennett's avatar

I believe they lived in a council house.

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Steven Gresham Farrall's avatar

It's not primarily housing supply issue. It is primarily a bad money issue compounded by bad tax and subsidy policy.

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Paul Cassidy's avatar

Bad government policy, fiscal & monetary, have played their part. But the primary problem IS the vast imbalance between the supply and demand for housing. That is why the multiple of house proves to average incomes in the U.K. has gone up and up and up over the last few decades, a phenomenon not seen in other European countries.

The primary problem is a different government policy, The Town & Country Planning Act which nationalised the right to build and created the green belt. The planning system it created has enabled the nimby. The consequence of this is Econ101 - rampant house price inflation.

You can tackle the demand side of the equation to some extent by curbing immigration, especially of the non value adding type, but, particularly given the accumulated housing deficit, estimated at about 4-5 million units, the bulk of the issue lies with supply.

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