#si

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents. ↗

— Hilda Doolittle

#consider #serpents #wise

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done. ↗

— John Prescott

#done #down #find #housing #how

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family. ↗

— John Prescott

#because #family #father #gone #happen

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had. ↗

— John Prescott

#build #bulimia #consultant #could #had

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north. ↗

— John Prescott

#done #first #giving #housing #i

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full. ↗

— John Prescott

#anything #around #chips #chocolate #did

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing. ↗

— John Prescott

#decent #fundamental #houses #housing #into

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given

We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot. ↗

— John Prescott

#given #housing #more #now #pot

Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites. ↗

— John Prescott

#affordable #built #higher #houses #intelligent