A million houses over 10 years is an extraordinary claim. You could have stuck the boot in on that more, because it’s not really 100k a year. It’s a gradual ramping up from our current position of 30k to an annual average that provides 1 million in aggregate, so by year 10 it’s probably 200k houses per annum required to catch up and achieve the target. Completely daft! Labour should know the ambitious target doesn’t cut it as a populist playbook. It’s all about being angry. Demonising somebody. “Banker” and “developer” needs to be the equivalent of “witch” in the 1600’s.
On the Chris Fitzpatrick article, there’s no chance that he himself would sign that contract. The contract says we can send you off anywhere in the country to work at a moment’s notice, weekday or weekend. Can I ask; would you guys sign up to that?
On the planning reform, the developers see this as work for them. They will alsways object as turkeys being asked to vote for Christmas.
It isn't economics but I felt I had to comment when brought up the Kerry baby case. You say Irish society was priest ridden but that language is unfair. You claimed unmarried mothers were pariahs, but that isn’t true. In the 1980s, the relevant decade of that case, only about 1 in 20 single mothers went to Mother and baby homes. Single mothers not pariahs in the 1980s. Even in the 1950s, most single mothers didn’t go to mother and baby homes. The Kerry Baby case is about a baby who was stabbed 28 times. It isn't fair to blame the big bad 'Catholic Church' for that.
Great discussion again.
A million houses over 10 years is an extraordinary claim. You could have stuck the boot in on that more, because it’s not really 100k a year. It’s a gradual ramping up from our current position of 30k to an annual average that provides 1 million in aggregate, so by year 10 it’s probably 200k houses per annum required to catch up and achieve the target. Completely daft! Labour should know the ambitious target doesn’t cut it as a populist playbook. It’s all about being angry. Demonising somebody. “Banker” and “developer” needs to be the equivalent of “witch” in the 1600’s.
On the Chris Fitzpatrick article, there’s no chance that he himself would sign that contract. The contract says we can send you off anywhere in the country to work at a moment’s notice, weekday or weekend. Can I ask; would you guys sign up to that?
On the planning reform, the developers see this as work for them. They will alsways object as turkeys being asked to vote for Christmas.
It isn't economics but I felt I had to comment when brought up the Kerry baby case. You say Irish society was priest ridden but that language is unfair. You claimed unmarried mothers were pariahs, but that isn’t true. In the 1980s, the relevant decade of that case, only about 1 in 20 single mothers went to Mother and baby homes. Single mothers not pariahs in the 1980s. Even in the 1950s, most single mothers didn’t go to mother and baby homes. The Kerry Baby case is about a baby who was stabbed 28 times. It isn't fair to blame the big bad 'Catholic Church' for that.