Making growth an exclusive project at the express counter-interest of the poorest is a doomed political strategy. Growth is a political choice and that means building a coalition.

@DuncanStott @CoKeynesian It's not a doomed political strategy because Reform voters (and many other people) don't believe that random jobless people have a moral right to the priciest real estate in the country at taxpayer expense.

@JacobMalhotra @CoKeynesian Reform don't care about growth.

@DuncanStott @CoKeynesian This is the response of a religious zealot, not someone interested in ideas or truth-seeking. You've not engaged with anything I've said. Freeing up London social housing and liberalising planning laws in E London like Reform have proposed, would massively increase econ growth.

@JacobMalhotra @CoKeynesian Well Reform have just taken control of Havering, so they can put planning liberalisation into action. Forgive me for not holding my breath.

@DuncanStott @CoKeynesian They're not going to ease planning restrictions in areas that vote for them. But Cambridge and most of East London will not vote for them, so it's politically viable for them to do it.

@DuncanStott @JacobMalhotra @CoKeynesian It's an unrealistic proposal. It's impossible to convince Reform boomer NIMBYs that blocking development is bad - the very same NIMBYs would balk at this proposal – they would be horrified and jealous of the huge payouts to social tenants. it's a non starter.