FTAdviser.com - Shapps fears locking another generation out of properties

FTAdviser.com - Shapps fears locking another generation out of properties

Organised chaos once again, par for the course for all these intellectuals. Another example of what Clive Briault described as a "Collective Intellectual Failure".

We have the FSA hammering the nails in the housing industry’s mortgage coffin, we have Pickles ripping out the heart of the already dead planning system, we have Hoban off doing his own thing, we have Turner blaming the ‘bad policy’ which he allowed to be implemented, we have Shapps blaming the “housing boom’ for all our ills while at the same time saying we can’t exclude another generation from the housing market.

I can’t see any joined up thinking, do you?

Let’s start at the bottom, chop up all this ‘top down’ regulation, it hasn’t worked, it isn’t working and it won’t work.

Let’s look at what the people need, let’s make a list and work out how we can provide it instead of faffing about with rules, regulations, restrictions and flawed legislation.

Go on, make a list, what are Joe Public’s priorities, need some hints? Well, they don’t have the same desires as bankers, politicians or regulators so we’ll scrap that lot straight away.

Do we need a revolution? Of sorts yes, but do the three monkeys want it?

NO