"THE drive to concentrate housing development in pathfinder areas like Bootle has failed, according to Southport MP John Pugh.

Speaking at the Public Accounts Committee, the Lib Dem MP revealed the scheme on Merseyside had led to a net loss of 412 houses, with waiting lists for housing going up by 126 per cent in the past five years.

Dr Pugh said: “The theory people who can’t get housed in Southport can find homes in the south of Sefton and Bootle is not only wrong, it’s not working. House prices in Bootle have shot up 118 per cent."

Mr John Pugh MP has got the clear picture of the dysfunctional impact of HMRI,destroying perfectly good houses,

reducing housing supply and aggravating house inflation . As a consequence waiting lists rise all at enormous tax payers expense

The worst offending council for the abuses of HMRI is strangely enough , Lib Dem ruined Liverpool.

The logic of Mr Pugh's comments is that he should urge Liverpool voters, at the next local elections, to abandon voting for either of the Lib Dem or Labour "demolition sisters" and vote for us in the anti Demolition Liberal Party.

Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton

Liberal Party Councillors - Liverpool