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Recent Comments

• Peter Davies
  There is a general problem that all parties state their targets in terms of new homes built. While regeneration programs replacing bad homes with better ones is...
• Peter Davies
  As usual, the article talks about a requirement for social homes and "genuinely affordable homes" but a strategy for delivering "affordable homes". We need to b...
• Tristan Ward
  "The question on Monday evening is whether we should be as wary of it in private hands" Of course we should. We don't like anyone or anything that abuses pow...
• Pawel Urbanski
  Gareth, thank you for this. Housing is one of the issues raised most often on the doorstep in London, and this is what Lib Dems in action looks like: Richmond, ...
• David Moon
  We keep obsessing about the National Debt and fiscal rules, when the real weakness of the economy is our trade imbalance with the rest of the world, particularl...