if it’s not to hold back economic opportunities across Scotland, according to a new report. The economy forum Prosper says there needs to be more construction.
By Professor John Robertson OBA
What does Prosper represent?
At their conference on 29th May, coming, the keynote speaker is the leader of the third party, perhaps the fourth party in 2026:
Facts not being mentioned:
House building, in 2024 is 25% up on the lowest level in 2013
From Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end September 2024, new starts are at the lowest in a decade but completions, actual building, is still 25% up on the lowest level in 2013.
Easily found in the same document, Scotland’s leading position in the UK and regularly building twice as many as in Labour-run Wales:
As for the fears over affordable housing, Scotland is way ahead of the rest of the UK and of Labour in 2007:
Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/quarterly-housing-statistics-december-2024/documents/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Nothing from Sarwar but what about her.
I much preferred the Keir Starmer of 2020.” A “depressed and angry” former Scottish Labour leader
@KezDugdale thinks the prime minister’s views on immigration five years ago are the “real” him.
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There is no “real” Starmer.
Yesterdays Daily Mail headline is what Starmers “believes” today.
And what Starmer “believes” today, become orthodoxy for Scotland colonial media cultists tomorrow.
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Labour built no affordable houses.
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