"Don't fence me in"

There’s people need places to live
and they’d find it quite hard to forgive
if the government didn’t react
by making new houses a fact.
So we’re totally sure they were thrilled
by the news we’re committed to build.
Our target, spelt out loud and clear,
was three hundred thousand a year.
But this future, so carefully mapped,
disappeared when the target was scrapped.

It’s not that we’re ignorant fools
(we went to the very best schools)
it’s just – we’re allergic to rules.