And?
Bang on, Iāve judged him on quite literally not a lot.
Exactly, your opinion is based on some inner mystery.
Hardly a good way to judge political petformance is it? Bit like trying to justify you not liking a particular footballer when youāve never seen them play.
As i said, if he doesnt deliver then I have no problem calling him a failure but heās got a long way to go to match the last lot, going back to Cameron.
I seriously doubt youād admit heās done a good job if he actually manages it
I donāt think you get me. Heās done fuck all but then heās said fuck all. Todayās big announcement can be summed up with āWeāre going to do some things (probably) to make things a bit better with mediocre targets.ā
Iām judging him on his absolute achievement of doing and saying fuck all.
The targets you mention do not look mediocre to me, considering the shit weāre in.
Why reminds me, my surfers against sewage app has gone nuts these last few days.
Blame Starmer, heās in charge.
My point is that heās made a big fuss about saying nothing. Making things a bit better is as difficult as putting on a hat. Metaphorically combing your hair and shining your shoes (JBPās tidy your room) is all well and good when you have nothing else to do. He made a huge deal about saying things nobody would disagree with. A vanilla statement from a vanilla man and some bright spark had the idea to host it at the home of heros. The closest heāll get to a hero is eating one with his bedtime milky coffee.
I have heard this before but what does it mean? In our area of north Merseyside, green belt land has been gobbled up over the last 10 years by loads of new housing estates. It was all farmland. I notice another big new estate has started construction now not 2 miles from here.
There was a load of hype from the tories about home building and so on. Even an actual budget for it. That department failed to build a single home and if memory serves me correct Gove was the minister in charge.
Found an article on it
The private sector will always where and when they can which is probably what youve seen in that area.
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No offence but this just feels like having a moan for the sake of having a moan.
The NHS target is difficult, we all know that, as are some of the others. Personally i wouldnt have been so prescriptive but theyāre targets heāll be judged against now and the Express will remember.
The way I see it, if he delivers those weāll be moving in the right direction. The target of major infrastructure projects interested me. If that industry gets moving it gets your GDP moving too (and housing).
And The Sun. And The Mail. And The Telegraph. And the rest.
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The official graph is here. House building has just about recovered to the pre-2007 crash level:
I seem to recall that the Coalition government scheme was an incentive for first time buyers that more or less ended up as buy-to-lets.
I think there is a lot that the government could be doing to help young families buy their own home, but the existing market pushes strongly against it.
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But surely whatever short or mid term targets he had laid out, whether you agree or not, he has to be given good time to achieve that? You canāt be calling him a failure just months into the new government?
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@gasband meet @Klopptimist
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Thatās referring to āstarter homesā and predates the previous government (if we take the 2019 election as the starting point).
I think around 1 million new homes were built between 2019 and this summer - but I donāt know how many homes were removed during that period or how well their price/ suitability matched demand.
Not being from the UK, I always wondered this too. Itās not as though the government is planning to start building council homes en masse, so what does it really mean apart from trying to coax private developers into building?
I think the whole idea of building on the green belt is a distraction. Solve land banking first.
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I tend to refer as the last lot as anything post 2010 but i take your point. You could see it either way. My memory is a bit vague on it but they rightly took some stick for spending public money on housing and not building a single one. Kind of par for that Cameron government.
Overall i think this leans on the fact that from 2010 the uk basically stopped building stuff. It stagnated and that has contributed to killing GDP. How we still have a construction skills shortage is still a mystery to me, but we are where we are.
It was his fault 1 second after he took power. Possibly less.
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I think all Governments have been guilty of not following through on promises in delivering the number of houses required. Since the start of the century we have had the Banking crisis, Brexit, Covid and a couple of wars all of which have had an impact and also provided a distraction. Banking crisis saw peoples houses getting repossessed because they couldnāt pay the Mortgage, Covid you couldnāt get materials and if you could the price was double the amount that would have been estimated.
For me that is in the past now, it is how Labour move this forward.
Personally, and I say this more in thought than knowledge - you are probably the best person to advise or pull my idea to pieces 
- but I would loosen the regulations on converting commercial/office space to residential, otherwise know as Land Zoning.
I have seen first hand numerous of Cities/Town centres that already a number of ghost buildings.
By changing the buildings usage, you could avoid having these derelict buildings, bring more people into these areas and maybe revitalise the High street.
I appreciate that there are lot more factors to be considered in my thinking, like the local infrastructure, services, costs to profits for the Principal contractor, etc.
Maybe it has been explored before and maybe I have had an oversight on a massive reason as to why it is not happening 
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Yep.
Tories lie.
Labour, well its the circumstances that have changed
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