From: "half_pint" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: D Tel: Brown's housing plan 'will devastate country'
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:10:40 +0100


"Steve Firth"  wrote in message
news:1get2lu.1micgxv18dibdhN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk...
> Fred  wrote:
>
> > At the end of the day with an insufficient stock of houses to go round
the
> > only winners are the land owners who get permission to build.  Are you
one
> > of those?
>
> Umm no, you're not thinking that through. The real winners are actually
> those with large mortgages. They make money out of almost nothing,
> provided they play the market properly. I don't see anyone's interests
> beign served by a few million more cheap and tacky "estates" for
> repmobile man.
>
> Don't fool yourself into thinking that this policy will represent cheap
> housing for the masses. You can see it in action already. It's places
> like the new town at Micheldever - turning a halfway decent village into
> a commuter hell-hole. Or the steady infilling of the South Coast to turn
> a heritage coastline into Billy Gibson's Sprawl.
>
> Mostly these developers don't provide for anyone other than the middle
> income two kids crowd. Their developments don't have shops, restaurants
> or pubs. If they *do* create any of the preceding they make damn sure
> that they are plastic wastelands. the houses are cheap build, sold at
> high prices to the prats who think they are gettign "an investment" when
> in fact they are buying into being stigmatised.
>
> If you can't afford a house where you are, there's always the Norman
> Tebbit option. Plenty of cheap houses around the country, move
> elsewhere. Or do what many of the rest of us had to do, buy a "fixer
> upper".
>
> And you *were* whinging BTW.

You really are a cretin aren't you.
Hover you ever stopped to consider how stupid you are?


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