Comment: Housing reform promises need body

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Why is it that when politicians claim to put forward a policy there is usually very little detail?

It's almost as if they think we are all going to be fooled into believing they have actually formulated a plan to solve a particular problem if they just say they have come up with a plan Last week saw the Conservative Party, under David Cameron or “Dave” as he wants us to call him, unveil “plans to help first-time buyers get a foot on the housing ladder", which apparently included a pledge to fight the government scheme to introduce expensive "sellers' packs" into property transactions. The problem was on closer inspection, the all but casual or downright lazy reader of the press release...

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