It’s really quite simple, there has been far too much immigration from all over the world including the EU, immigration was good at some point and has produced some really good and gifted people, but as in many things there is a limit, nobody kept any sort of check on it, that’s the cause of a large amount of our problems, the welfare/NHS/housing have all been swamped.

The options set out by MPs that claim double housing benefit, and sometimes let people rent their benefit claimant homes and then rent off another MP and get more state benefit,

Remember all MPs are State-benefit claimants!

Cripes, what a luck chap! Grand Chapps, of course. Onward and upwards! Leaves his poor successor in a hell of a mess. Nevertheless, Grant has written a self-help book so that the cash strapped aspirational chap can make his million and stop being a drain on the state. A plus don't you think?
Landlords definitely sorry to see him go. They've been coining it ever since Grant took over. Build houses when we've got plenty of rooms available at taxpayers' expense.
Still, now we have to face up to the bleak reality of the housing market surely it's time a Rachman and a Rigsby made an appearance. Don't forget the Alsatian or the noisy neighbours.
Not the same since we had Rasputin in the sixties. Good Old Keefe Joseph! The Mad Monk. Knew all about construction did Keith. Family were builders. And his wife had a nice way with homeless people. Made them tea. Pity Keefe was a former public school boy. Such a tragedy, Mrs T was educated at a state grammar school and became a hussive.
Even invented a political ideology from Mrs T and named it 'Thatcherism'. Kind of 'home economics'.

Good Old Days

Should hard working people in the Midlands support someone who wishes to live in Kensington and Chelsea. We would all like to live there but can't afford it. That is the line we must draw in order to get elected.

We must support caps/limits otherwise we will really be the party of the shirkers, which we are not.

The state will not be able to pay for everything in the future, we will live in a country competing with extremely competitive and advanced countries like Singapore, Korea and China who will no longer use their surpluses to finance our debts. Hence once this QE financed bond bubble blows up expect debt to get very expensive. In the meantime we need to get our house in order.

Yet, if you never really liked where you live, then being forced to move elsewhere isn't as bad as it seems. Lmao. I'm moving to Australia, because the lifestyle is fairer. Their goverment is fairer and housing rent is way more cheap over in Aus. You could move there yourself. Just a thought. The housing really is cheaper over there though. Why bother being a tied down to a country that just keeps going downhill? Do you want that for your life?

Completely agree with the point above about looking at taxation being put on the almost one million empty homes across the UK. On the same day that we also hear about 1.5 million people who have second homes that they do live in, it's clear that much of the problem with inequality between housing supply and demand isn't caused by an over-generous housing benefit system at all.

There is no 'shortage of housing'.
The 'demand outstripping supply' is totally artificial.
Various figures point to about ONE MILLION empty residential properties in the UK - these are for the most part neglected 'assets' of individuals and companies who can't be bothered to rent them out, as they're not losing money on them sitting empty.
It's a pure taxation problem. One house - fine, two houses - luxury, three and more - ok but surely not if undertaxed in a way which makes it 'profitable' to leave them empty.
Many things need rethinking in these times, one of them is the purpose of houses - 'asset' vs. 'place to live'. I also despise the word 'housing ladder'. Where do you want to climb? Who are you leaving down below?
(But of course a sensible change in policy would bring rents and house prices right down, poor economy, poor people high on their ladders...)