Cameron is as deaf as Blair over building boom

THE high command of the Conservatives has, from the start, thought that utopia was to be found through bulldozing through planning and building houses wherever a quick buck can be made.

But history shows that this thinking by most probably a twenty-something Oxbridge brain, will fail and was this not the case even in the good times of the 2000s when banks were lending as though there was no tomorrow.

Indeed, if we look back throughout history again, only in the two decades after the Second World War did this country see a continuous sustainable economic growth through the building industry. But this realistically was also combined with the great spur from British industry which in many ways had the upper hand then over most nations including decimated Germany. Today we have no advantage and in fact have the economic might of China and the Far East to contend with. This perceived government economic blueprint dreamt up by so-called whizz kids will therefore fail.

What this nation needs is an economic strategy that creates new technological industries that 40 of the world’s scientists, engineers and technologists told Blair & co in 1997 after extensive consultation.

Unfortunately, it appears David Cameron is just as deaf and as uninformed as Blair and this Government still does not recognise our greatest asset; the British people’s creative thinking that, according to international studies, is the best in the world. Therefore this stupid strategy to relax planning laws et al will get us nowhere except destroy our beautiful countryside and, in another decade’s time, we shall be deeper in the economic mire than we are today.