Labour's promise of building 200,000 homes a year will surely be impossible to achieve. They talk of new towns, expanding garden suburbs, and allowing local authorities to expand towns without objection from neighbouring authorities. Have they met NIMBY Britain? It would be political suicide.
What they seem to forget with their political arrogance, is the majority of voters don't want building in their back yards, or this green and pleasant land covered in concrete and brick.
The reality is aggressive development would be a vote loser and not a vote a winner.
Nobody can argue, that Britain needs a heavy dose of new housing, but how a Government achieves that has thus far, proven to be politically impossible.
I just don't think Labour will have the 'Balls' to do it.
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Labour had a manifesto to build 200,000 houses a year last time they were in power.
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Much Balls indeed!