Brown sets an eco-town trap for the Tories

Oh no.  It looks as though Gordon has been thinking about his legacy again, and four more sites have duly been selected to become eco-towns.  Problem is, they’re all pretty much in the Middle of Nowhere, which – as I’ve blogged before – rather defeats their purpose as being either green or attractive for first-time buyers.  Either Brown’s ignoring the fact most young people want to be where the jobs are; in London, Birmingham, Manchester etc.  Or he’s expecting all those first-time buyers to do a lot of commuting; which, in turn, means cars, railways, road-building and massive infrastructure projects.  Can you just imagine the carbon footprint?

Chances are, though, that the Dear Leader won’t be in office to see these towns completed or even begun: construction on the sites announced today would start in 2016.  Which prompts the question of whether a Tory government would continue the developments.  They said