"Peter Parry" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:34:01 +0000, David Hansen
wrote:

Hardly, look at the makeup of your "Sustainable Development
Commission". Led by Baron Porritt, Eton educated lawyer and son of
the ex Governor General of New Zealand. Green Party founder and well
known campaigner against almost anything. Closest he has been to
"social housing" is studying a photograph of one.

Kevin Cahill, in his book Who Owns Britain, accuses Friends of the Earth as
fronts for large landowners. He picks out Porrit, who comes out with overt
lies.

We don't need high levels of social housing. The private sector can cope if
the population is allowed to build on the 92.5% of the land that is not
settled, and much of it subsidised to do nothing. People are priced out of
housing because land accounts for 2/3 of the value; an artificial shortage
has been created.

"Except for the few surviving commons, the high roads, the lands of the
National Trust, a certain number of parks, and the sea shore below high-tide
mark, every square inch of England is `owned' by a few thousand families.
These people are just about as useful as so many tapeworms. It is desirable
that people should own their own dwelling houses, and it is probably
desirable that a farmer should own as much land as he can actually farm."
- George Orwell