Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Brown spins housing to the Indy

Yesterday, I posted about Tim Hames piece in the Times which was arguing that spin really was dead under Gordon Brown and that journalists were no longer getting pre-announcement briefings before things were said in Parliament. It's pretty clear that the assertion is nonsense and you only have to look at today's Independent to realise it. We have a piece about Brown's housing strategy which trails Yvette Cooper in Parliament today with,
"She will say that it will not mean a return to Fifties-style council estates, but will bring about mixed estates of family houses and flats for sale and rent."
So much for Parliament first under Brown!

2 comments:

Old BE said...

The end of spin as you say is all so much spin.

This housing idea is good - but how are councils going to find space when private developers can't?

Anonymous said...

The government can build on flood plains, or take un-used farming land after Defra has made them all bankrupt.

More years of misery to come....