The Priory…for a start, there is a huge basic difference in the Labour and Conservative Party’s; the former always needing a big, expensive, inefficient State, that penalises the Private Sector growth/taxes/jobs and encourages a welfare/benefit State rather than for people to try and help themselves if they can and increases personal taxes to pay for it – and the Conservatives always do the opposite – guess which one is the only sustainable economic model until the money runs out?
As for your accusation that the Conservatives would have done the same as Labour regarding immigration and housing, on immigration it is highly doubtful, especially regarding the non EU migrants to this country, that were in the 2000’s up to twice the number of EU citizens. If you look at the Table I provide on the link below, the proof of this is in the 1991-1999 figure that was mainly a Conservative administration – and the fall in these number since 2010.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/politics/2052280-Modern-Tories-on-rape-Down-syndrome-Pakistani-children-and-black-people
As for housing, the Labour Party with it’s own secret immigration agenda received their own commissioned report in 2004 and did what about it, in a global economic boom, when they increased government spending by around 50% from 2001 to 2008, to over £600 billion a year + running a £30 billion plus budget deficit????
“Britain is facing a housing disaster as it is one million homes short, warns new report”
www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2589483/Britain-facing-housing-disaster-warns-new-report.html
“Britain is now one million homes short of meeting its housing needs – a decade on from the flagship Barker Review of Housing Supply.”
“The 2004 report by Kate Barker, commissioned by the then Labour government, found that 210,000 homes needed to be built each year to prevent a housing crisis.”
“The economist also set a more ambitious target of ‘improving the housing market’ and making property more affordable by building 260,000 homes a year.”
“But a follow-up report shows that an average of just 115,000 homes a year have been built since then – meaning the country is 953,000 homes short of one target and 1.45million short of the other.”
“The chronic shortage of homes has locked many youngsters out of the housing market with 3.35million 20-to-34-year-olds living with their parents – 790,000 more than when the Barker Review was published.”
And this was the consequences by 2008, when the UK money had run out, we were in a deep recession having LOST around 7% of our GDP/output and in deep financial trouble.
england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/212038/Factsheet_Social_Housing.pdf
Social housing supply – By Shelter
“There are more than 3.8 million social homes in England. The number of social homes declined by 10 per cent between 1998 and 2007.”
“However, the number of new lettings19 fell by one third during the same period (see Table 6). As a result,households in housing need have to wait longer as fewer homes become available.”
“At the end of March 2008 there were 1.77 million households on local authority housing registers (or housing waiting lists) for the allocation of a social home."
Hence, when I read the opening post trying to smear the Conservatives as being the party ‘for’ the rich, making Labour the party ‘for’ affordable housing, the sheer gall and hypocrisy makes me reach.