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No, not boring, it's a civic duty to point out what's happening. Here's another government minister with yet another lie to justify it -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045371/Planning-reform-High-house-prices-destroying-family-life.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
We're doing it to save family life, honest...

I may have said, or was it to the bus queue? if they'd insist only starter homes can be built, and on brownfields sites rather than luxury ones on greenfield sites they'd solve the housing shortage and house price inflation and the threats to the countryside in a trice. Trouble is, their builder-mates who "advised" on this policy, would make a lot less money. Sick. This is actually turning out MUCH more pernicious than Thatcher.

Exactly. More pernicious than Thatcher indeed. The broader environmental issues here and Cameron's blatant posturings whilst paying feeble and smirking lip service to them, are disgraceful as well as being blatant lies:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/oct/06/road-building-plans-tory-government

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/oct/05/cameron-conservative-green-economy-climate-change