Boris on Prescott.

Boris Johnson is good today on the lunacy of John Prescott’s approach to housing.

It is a policy that defies logic. It is not as though Labour believes we have too many houses in this country. On the contrary, this same Prescott recently announced that, as a nation, we were so short of houses that it would be necessary, over the next 20 years, to construct another 640,000 in the South-East, with 200,000 going on greenfield sites. The policy is philistine, expensive and environmentally disastrous.

On the one hand, semi-sacred northern terraces are to be flattened, when it would be cheaper and more sensible to renovate them in a way that many potential residents might like. And, with the other hand, Prescott waves the green flag to the developers who want to turn the South-East into a great homogeneous mass of roundabouts, multiplexes, out-of-town shopping centres and ribbon development.
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The question is whether it is really the business of government to skew the market on this colossal scale, and whether Prescott is right to encourage this Stalinist resettlement of populations, from north to south.

I’ve written variously here before about how insanely stupid the plans are. Tens of thousands of houses will be built on flood plains, where they cannot get insurance and thus no mortgages, hundreds of thousands of perfectly good houses will be demolished, all at the dictat of one buffoon. If we were (and it is under discussion) to move back to the UK those Northern Terraces are exactly where we would go, logically spending our money on two or three to knock together rather than a rabbit hutch down South.

I feel it is time for a google bombing. Who will join me in pushing fuckwit up the rankings? Remember not to make the link more than twice in one posting as the ’bots tend to ignore those that link excessively. We might even be able to get there, to the top, in time for the election.