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Respond Letters responding to: Infrastructure should be an electoral flash-point, by Lyons and Kennedy
Politics is more BORING than at any time in the last fifty years. Anyone want to contradict me? No wonder it’s a struggle to get anyone to vote. When you realise that an article on infrastructure is the most important and interesting political commentary you have read all week, things are really getting bad. Anyway, thanks to the authors.
Has anyone noticed that the election may only be two months away, or have I got my dates mixed up? Isn’t someone going to light the blue touch paper?
Tom Addiscott, UK
The reason why we cannot seem to build the infrastructure which the UK needs is because it would be political suicide.
The unemployed and low-paid workers who would benefit from the prospects offered by more development are outnumbered at the ballot box (especially in marginal constituencies) by NIMBY ‘homeownerists’ hell-bent on keeping the prices of their own houses high, no matter how much damage this does to the country as a whole. Both Thatcher and Blair pandered to the homeownerists at the expense of the real economy.
Any political strategy to solve Britain’s bad infrastructure will have to break the power of the homeownerists – any suggestions?
George Carty, UK
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