Government figures published today reveal brick deliveries fell 18.3% in February compared with a year ago, with block deliveries dropping 17.4% and ready-mixed concrete sales falling by 16.4% in the final quarter of 2025. Private new housing output, the sector Starmer’s fanciful 1.5 million homes target depends on, fell 6.3% in the three months to January. Total construction output has now declined for four consecutive quarters…
The Bank of England’s own contacts report new-build housing activity has “stalled,” with commercial development “largely paused”. Domestic brick production has collapsed from nearly two billion in 2022 to 1.3 billion, with imports now plugging the gap. But ‘BUILD BABY BUILD!’ caps look great on Steve Reed’s head…
The figures released today don’t even measure the impact of the Iran war. So expect the next release to be even worse…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”