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d wrote:

If the previous government hadn't deliberaly flung the doors open to
mass immigration we wouldn't now be having to cope with housing an
extra 2 million people. If there was any justice in the world Tony
Blair would be forced to rent out the rooms in his mansions.

Or scrap the Stalinist Town & Country Planning act. Thatcher reinforced this
act. Why? To keep house price high to appeal to owner/occupiers to gain
votes, while the country as whole suffered. The state of the nation was
throw out of the window.

The knock-on was that debt after debt was poured into land which resulted in
the Credit Crunch - a collapse.