Yesterday, Gordoom promised:
In every part of the country, there is an urgent need for new social housing and for new affordable home ownership. So the Minister for Housing is announcing that in the next two years—from the re-allocation of funds—we will more than treble the extra investment in housing: from the £600 million announced in the Budget to a total of £2.1 billion from today. That will finance over the next 24 months a total of 110,000 affordable homes to rent or buy and in doing so create an estimated 45,000 jobs in construction and related industries.By building new and additional homes we can now also reform social housing allocation, enabling local authorities to give more priority to local people whose names have been on waiting lists for far too long. We will consult on reforms to the council house finance system to allow local authorities to retain all the proceeds from their own council house sales and council rents. We want to see a bigger role and responsibility for local authorities to meet the housing needs of people in their areas.
The Shadow Housing Minister, Grant Shapps has said: "Under existing legislation and Harman's new equality law, local people will not have priority for local homes." Mad Hattie will be delighted!
Joined up government in action! Uncosted expenditure for re-announced relaunched pronouncements. Gordoom rehashes policy that HE thinks will make HIM look good without any proper research into the consequences of forthcoming legislation. He also fobs responsibility off onto the local authorities so that when the whole thing turns to shit, as it inevitably will, he can do his usual "Not me, guv" and duck back down behind the sofa. We are not fooled.
At PMQs tomorrow expect the usual bullshit bingo catchphrases of "increase in public spending....unlike the party opposite who will cut spending by 10%...do nothing party...we are the party who would help the unemployed unlike the party opposite who opposed these measures...we are the party of investment, they are the party of cuts..." from the one-eyed drivelmonger.
