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!
The end of spin as you say is all so much spin.
ReplyDeleteThis housing idea is good - but how are councils going to find space when private developers can't?
The government can build on flood plains, or take un-used farming land after Defra has made them all bankrupt.
ReplyDeleteMore years of misery to come....