Housing - Over the last five years the Conservatives have completely failed - John Healey
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning, responding to reports of David Cameron’s speech, said:
“Over the last five years with David Cameron in charge the Conservatives have completely failed on housing. They claim to be the party of home ownership but on their watch it has fallen every year for the past five years and is now at its lowest level for a generation - for those under 35, it’s down by over a fifth.
“Their record of failure has also seen rapidly rising rents, more homelessness, higher housing benefits bill, and fewer homes built than at any time since the 1920s.
“After five years of failure on housing, the millions of people struggling to cope with their housing costs deserve a real plan for more affordable homes to rent and buy. And the country needs a new wide debate about how our deepening housing crisis can be tackled.”
No shock there then. They’ve done nothing but dismantle the planning system, instead of empowering planners to get affordable housing built.
And the newspapers will sing their praises and cause the next election to go to them as well. They will fail our people and subvert our democracy and commit genocide against the poor and disabled and the media will just go on talking about migrants and scroungers and trots.