On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:18:58 +0100, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:16:57 +0100, "IMM" wrote:



I really couldn't a hoot about a developer and its shareholders. If they
will not deliver the goods then the government has to force them into the
20th century. Getting them into the 21st century is asking too much.


You may not directly, but this is a naive view. The shareholders are
typically pension and other managed funds, not to mention the
contribution of corporation tax to the exchequer.

You missed the point yet again.

It's very much the point in terms of whether anything, right or wrong,
will change.



Well seeing as it is a boom town/city and they are short of houses you naive
view of the world is once a again off mark.

Everywhere is short of houses, it is alleged. The majority of
people don't live in new towns or would wish to do so.



It isn't balls, but I don't disagree with you. As I said, people
perceive their houses as their major investment and protection, for
right or from wrong. This results in being risk averse in that area.
You can't legislate against human nature either.

Once again mossed the point.

We'll have to agree to differ on that.




You are right. Just as well we have Johnny then.

His boss sees him as a liability, but then he's a snot, of course.



Free market? about 15 companies build about 85% of all homes. Monopolies.

Nothing close to it. The authorities became interested in the
prospect of less than five supermarket chains. Fifteen construction
firms is not.


They are doing very well so why should they change. That is theri
mentality.

Why indeed. The economic drivers are not there.

Exactly, so the government should force change through.

it's exactly why it shouldn't.




Because it has to keep the country keeping up. I wish they would
de-legislate on land though.

I wish that they would repeal most of the garbage regulations and
stealth taxes introduced since 1997.

I hope they keep them except the taxes as LVT should be introduced.

Very unlikely to happen, so purely academic.


I very much doubt whether there will be meaningful land reform in our
lifetimes.

If, in 1988 you said that the Soviet empire would be dismantled in a few
years with Russia apply to join NATO you would have found a van pull with
men in white coats pulling you in. And os that exactly what happened.

The Soviet empire was doomed from the outset, as are all government
controlled societies sooner or later. Yet this is what you advocate.


..andy

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