Most Embarrassing Moment Of Elections So Far.

[needawin]

BBC2 politics live today with Andrew Neil.
Most embarrassing moment in the savaging of Liz Truss.
Discussing housing, Andrew asked Liz Truss how many of the 2,500 starter homes have been built since the promise 4 years ago.
Liz Truss replied she didn't have the exact figures with her at the moment.
Andrew replies it is not a hard figure to remember. Zero!
Silence!!!

[diddlydo]

Are you seriously suggesting that they give up a job, give up their family/relations etc to move many miles away where housing is cheaper? Have a heart please.

[dannyk13]

Just had a look at house prices in Oxfordshire and £435k is well below the average price there.

[Old_Geezer]

Aye, but I bet the low paid jobs still don't cover the mortgage, yet the area needs low paid workers.

[emmie]

i don't know if anyone lives in the capital, but housing is going up all over the place.

[10ClarionSt]

"And there are plenty more from Labour with regard to the Magic money forest" @ 13.17

We keep hearing all of this about how Labour can afford this, that or the other, as though the Tories never, ever get into debt and never borrow money for govt purposes. The Tories borrow money left right and centre. It's how it works isn't? Use someone elses money?

[douglas9401]

If a glorified garden shed with some bricks around it can command £435K the somebody needs to have a look at the gouging profiteers getting immensly rich off this scam.

It might also help if the grinning inanities on the telly going on about 'forever homes', 'views' 'space' and location were culled to help get some sort of perspective on the commodity being traded.

[diddlydo]

Danny - the fact that £435K is a below average price for Oxfordshire is irrelevant. That amount of money is inaccessible to those on low to average wages/salaries.

[dannyk13]

Diddly , most people starting on the property ladder do not begin by buying a new property.

[naomi24]

diddlydo, I have a heart - but I’m realistic. People can only have what they can afford. No one should assume the world owes them anything. Danny is right. Few start out by buying a brand new house.

[Old_Geezer]

Surely if a development was built because it was "affordable" and that was needed because insufficient "affordable" housing exists in the area, one assumes it is newly built for those who struggle to afford buying an existing dwelling because they're just starting ? If sufficient already existed for starters, more wouldn't need to be built. Each area needs to figure out what it needs to run properly.

[Deskdiary]

"Are you seriously suggesting that they give up a job, give up their family/relations etc to move many miles away where housing is cheaper?"

err, I did.

Granted it was a few years ago, more than a few actually, but I had to move from Petts Wood, which for those that don't know is a pretty affluent suburb of Bromley on the Kent/SE London border, to a flat
on Loampit Vale in Lewisham, because that was all I could afford.

Lewisham, in the 90s, was pretty bloody grim.

[10ClarionSt]

Probably the effect of years of the Tories, DD.

[Spicerack]

If only Labour hadn't 'scoured the earth' for immigrants.
I do know we're not supposed to mention the reason for the housing shortage. Sorry.

[diddlydo]

Clarion - exactly. Nearly all the council houses in my village are now privately owned so locals on a low wage can't afford to buy anything here.

[Zacs-Master]

Anyway. Well done for remembering you were on the internet and being able to do links, Naomi. I said WELL. DONE. LOVE.

(shakes head)

[naomi24]

Thanks Zacs.

Diddly, as a social warrior why don't you help someone out and put your house up for sale for a lot less than the market value? Go on, start a trend.