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At the risk of sounding like a Marxist…. I reckon the problem is deeply rooted in global systems.. AKA (the dreaded (that the right have difficulty understanding apparently)): systemic.
However, there is clearly engineered mass immigration, that the left cannot see
And the right cannot see that its SOMEWHAT causal from the illegal middle east…[Read more]

I have, I don’t consider endlessly building more houses to meet the demand of immigration to be a viable solution. It is obviously true that you can just increase supply to match demand and the will be no crisis. But I don’t want more of our countryside concreted over to house the increasing population solely due to immigration. Just reduce demand

You haven’t engaged with the point Liam made.
France has had more immigration and doesn’t have a housing crisis. What do you think about this?

Full disclosure: I’m president of the Council of Georgist Organizations. Most people, including most Georgists, only associate him with land value tax. They forget, or never found out, that he got the secret ballot into the United States, led the campaign for municipal ownership of public utilities, started the eventual downfall of the patronage…[Read more]

Just about everybody uses the term “capitalism” the same way, whether on the left and the right, but Marx coined the term. As a result, the dictionary definition is his definition. However, his real contribution to economic confusion was in redefining the word “capital” to include land and money. People speak of those with money as having capital,…[Read more]

Wow … that’s me well and truly spanked, and I suppose I must say; “thank you for the education”.
I was completely unaware of George’s writings on money; only his proposal to tax land/rent and perhaps that Georgists extended this to other natural resources & monopolies.
Re “Capitalism”; I wasn’t actually thinking of Marx, but using the term…[Read more]

Your desire to be taken seriously would be served by your making constructive points directly in your comment instead of ranting at people and giving them reading assignments.

Increased demand only drives land prices up, because the supply of land is fixed, and, as Adam Smith noted, “The rent of the land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price.” (Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chapter 11 “On the Rent of Land”) It does not drive up the price of other goods unless they…[Read more]

I would look at areas like mid-Wales, Rutland, Lincolnshire, east of York, Northumberland, south of Glasgow, south of Edinburgh, west of Aberdeen. Supported by investment in the road and rail networks plus new and expanded regional airports all of these places could be viable and become desirable for new and expanding businesses and industries.…[Read more]

Well, I see it as simple supply and demand – we aren’t increasing our productivity so we aren’t growing the economy that way. If people are prepared and able to pay more and more for property, the ‘value’ of UK plc increases. I imagine that’s why so much property in London has been allowed to be bought by foreign investors (who leave them empty).