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Planning Minister Nick Boles blames "elderly" for housing crisis

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/25/immigrants-not-causing-housing-crisis_n_4161952.html?1382695221&utm_hp_ref=uk Elderly More To Blame For Housing Crisis Than Immigrants Planning Minister Nick Boles   Nick Boles, Conservative MP, Planning minister and complete arsehole, claims that the elderly are responsible for the housing crisis. The "crisis" which many commentators and contributors to the comments sections of the Mail, the Telegraph and yes even the Huffington Post, argue does not exist and is in fact no more than a sinister left wing plot created to destabilise the government and create alarm amongst the people. Clearly, Boles is out of step with that analysis. We should perhaps take some comfort in the knowledge that the housing crisis has nothing to do with years of neglect by successive governments and their collective failure to address the problem of affordable housing. Moreover, since Thatcher decreed that building of ...