Then someday somebody is going to invent a pill that stops aging & then we really will have a housing problem.

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This is obviously a silly idea, however why not build more new developments (perhaps on the Green Belt) that can only be sold to people who don’t already own property.

The fact that so many new developments get snapped up by the buy-to-let brigade must help keep prices up and first-times priced out. If more new developments were restricted to non-owners then that might help.

Anyway, I wonder how many of you lot actually would like to see a house price crash. I know I would, but I can’t see it happening.

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I continue to take issue with the misuse of the word ‘liberal’ that is so prevalent. Although I normally vote Conservative, I’m not really a Conservative, nor a neo-con. If anything I’m a paleo-liberal, who is disenfranchised by the fact that we don’t have a proper classic-liberal party any more and haven’t had since 1914. I intensely dislike Cameron’s move of the party towards a social-democrat stance. Surely I’m not the only one who has almost given up on the silly little man?

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The Green Party doesn’t realise anything . The decimation of the Cities by uncontrolled migration has been deliberately allowed because the increase in red tape has destroyed the real economy. With inflation and unemployment rising there it is clear the economy cannot withstand increased demand. In any case this is beyond the Chancellors remit , the only good thing he ever did . Unreformed Public Sector resource munchers have been hosed down with taxpayer’s cash and like all their kind only react by needing more.

The endless long Summer of growth (actually begun under the chancellor ship of Norman Lamont) , can only be sustained by reducing costs to big business who collude in raising entry barriers to the markets and finance large Lobbying groups , like the Smith Institute ( see Guido). Broon has to have this growth to pay the political pipers of the public sector and he is selling out the country to do it .

It is for this reason that immigration has been allowed to balloon and will continue to be allowed to replace the indigenous people with the flood of further migrants from Bulgaria and Romania next year ( One of the1038 unanswered questions) . Meanwhile One in ten Britain’s actually live abroad and 500 permanently relocate every day (replaced by 1500 immigrants)

I am way past pansying around with the whole subject. The answer is lowering taxes reducing administrative burden getting out of the EU , restoring honesty to public finances . My side is winning the argument and will win in the end as the horror unfolds .Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have signalled they knwo it . What a shame David Cameron has to be dragged like a scraggy old donkey, by the nose ,by the resurgent right .

The Green Party cannot help they are wedded to proto Socialist policies that destroy business and are useful idiots for the Socialists at best. The worst of this operates through the EU .( See new “Green “measures announced yesterday due to undermine the chemical industry) . They also encourage childish non engagement with big policy and single issue fraud of a typical Liberal kind .

When will we defend this country. The whole position is far far worse than it appears and we , the English are fast becoming no more than a scattering of aboriginies paid lip service but irrelevant to the country. I `m with Le Pen . Love this country or leave it . I `m with Winston Churchill I wish he was here to day to warn us we are sleepwalking towards the end of this country. I wish he was here to tell the people who the traitors are and what they have done .This was following the betrayal of the Munich appeasement

“They ,( The poeple of this country), should know that there has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defenses; they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road; they should know that we have passed an awful milestone in our history.”

Resonates for us I think

Great Boris attack on the EU in the Tory graph today bring it on. Amusing and deadly

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Of course it’s not sustainable to go down the route of thinking a continual increase in population solves these things. It’s as foolish as a person who is £1000 in debt thinking that if he borrows £2000 it solves his debt problem. All that the increase in population does is feed a bigger problem to our descendants. Why is it that only the Green party seems to realise this?

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Is it simply a straight supply and demand issue – or are we perhaps tackling other issues in the wrong way? UK encouraged mass migration in the 1950s/60s to cope with the post-war period’s aging population and skills problem. It worked for a while, but then those who’d migrated here aged and the whole aging population/skills issue came up again – as it will with those migrating here now.

Is it sustainable to use migration and a house building boom to deal with the recurring problem of our aging population or do we need to consider other possible routes to sustainability?

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Not impressed with your views on Barker though, Neil, you’re with her, I’m with Friends of the Earth – who say:

‘The food chain is becoming increasingly global – and big business has taken control. The world’s biggest company is a supermarket – Walmart/Asda.Farmers around the world are encouraged by bodies like the World Trade Organisation to grow whatever they can most cheaply and sell it worldwide. This helps the profits of the supermarkets, fertiliser and pesticide companies but it’s bad news for small farmers, people and the environment:

Give a fair deal for farmers who safeguard our future. Save food and farming from unfair global trade rules.’

I’m also interested in the views of the Optimum Population Trust, who argue that, for national sustainability, we need to reduce our population to 55 million – which perhaps doesn’t seem as absurdly unlikely as it once did in the light of the recent survey suggesting that 10% of us want to leave UK.

That would free up a lot of housing and cut prices.

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Someone suggested that people should only be allowed to own one property and believed that would help the housing situation. I think that measure would be along the lines of a totalitarian state and believe Blair has taken us far enough down that road already.

I agree, Jaq. We’ve gone far enough down nulab’s slippery slope towards totalitarianism. Sick to the back teeth of it I am too.

My view is that we must have balanced development, we cannot continue exacerbating the infrastructural crisis in the South East by continuing to dump increasing amounts of development in pockets of the South East. If Cameron is elected and goes down Blair’s road on this he’ll make himself very unpopular here very quickly.

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