Trying to solve the local housing shortage by building more "affordable" housing is as futile as swimming against a torrent of water. In the country as a whole, there is no housing shortage.

This is a local problem caused by economic migration, due to the policies of successive governments that have turned much of Britain outside South-East England into an industrial wasteland. The remedy is to deal with the cause, a tax system which ignores the fact it is easier to run a business in London and the South-East than in places such as Glasgow, Liverpool and Sunderland.

-Henry Law, Brighton