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This has a bit more - I don't know enough about the mechanisms of house building but it does look like the government promised to fund (possibly indirectly) 200,000 new homes but never legislated to make it happen...

Yep. See my other answer. He should be clearer but the government has built none of the 200,000 houses they promised they'd build, specifically affordable starter homes for the under 40s.

He should be clearer but he's right - the government promised they'd fund and build 200,000 "starter homes" over ten years to create affordable housing, of which none have ever been built. They went as far as acquiring some land...which was then used for private housing developments.

On Twitter a chap called Russ Jones is reviewing the last 14 years under the Tories...this is the first 7 of around 100 points for 2017

15-20 years ago my wife's grandmother got a speeding fine doing over 40 in a (she insisted) newly designated 30mph area outside a military base. She was 91 and had lived in the area her entire life and wasn't impressed. She gave up driving after that and terrorised the pavements on an electric...

Paraphrased from Sky: If England win the group: We probably want Austria to lose to the Netherlands, then we may play Austria. If Austria beat the Netherlands and France beat or draw with Poland then we may play the Netherlands If Austria win and France lose to Poland we may play France. or...

49 - use Reddit a bit but more for browsing than contributing, NSC, WhatsApp but other than that not much. I don't use any social media except LinkedIn for work but only look at it once every 3 or 4 weeks mostly to clear my inbox and almost never post or comment on anything. At a conference I...

I remember free albums. And I still get a Pavlovian reaction and a flashback to childhood with the smell of a freshly opened pack of stickers :love:

A huge number of people, myself included, rate her songwriting highly. All taste is subjective and no one will convince someone to like something or convincingly explain why something is "good". (I don't like a lot of modern art or understand how it's "good" however much someone tries to explain...

I've used Aliexpress a lot and never had an issue. Most generic branded stuff on Amazon is resellers of Aliexpress goods with a massive markup. I've never bought electronics but bags, stationery, hobby stuff etc have all been great. I like to use a fountain pen and have some relatively expensive...

Mini Exile going with her mum, third tour they'll have seen her on. I'd love to go but priced out of joining them unfortunately! Red and 1989 have been the soundtrack to a lot of great family memories.

I don't disagree with you at all, in fact I agree. I just think it'd be quite exciting and I quite like the idea of something massively random and unpredictable happening with the England team to make it interesting :giggle: As it is I expect us to win the next game comfortably while...

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I wonder if there was any point yesterday he looked at the bench, at Bowen, Gallagher, and wished that he'd taken Grealish instead?

I would, because I don't imagine it'd be any worse unless they replaced him with Lampard. But this being the FA that's probably exactly what they'd do.

Plumpton College run a beginners beekeeping course - I did the first part of it a couple of years ago which was the foundation for the more practical elements, then Mrs Exile decided she didn't want me having a hive in the garden after all unfortunately. I'd very much recommend the course...

Is the question that begins "after the game finished did you...(leave straight away etc)" making a bold assumption I'm still there at the end or am I only asked it because I've already said I'm not in East Upper? :moo: (only joking because it must be a few days since we've had a "leaving...

If you took the fridge with you then you could always have it behind you. You could write a book about it maybe. Actually. Tony Hawks is from Brighton. Are you Tony Hawks?!

Many years ago I worked as a wedding photographer. I've got 101 stories of awful things happening at weddings and some absolutely mad moments including other people putting their foot in it but my personal worst moment was a bride misunderstanding a question I asked. It was about whether there'd...

"Koch goes in hard" caused much hilarity in my circle during a Leeds game, possibly the FA Cup one against Crawley