When is a u-turn not a u-turn?

When it delivered by Ruth Kelly. In her "emergency statement" to the commons yesterday, she pretty much conceded defeat over the implementation of the government's proposed Home Improvement Packs (HIPs). The 1997 manfesto pledge that has still to be implemented. Yet again the proposals are being watered down, and tested in a small part of the country. Thus penalising people that live in that particular chosen area, with a certain size house.

Who will take bets on it being a predominantly tory area?

But the lack of planning and strategy when it comes to housing doesn't stop there, after it was revealed that the National Audit Office blames Ruth Kelly’s Communities Department for failing to produce a "coherent, fully costed plan for the Thames Gateway programme". Now, I have a vested interest in this as it directly affects the area that I live in. But the audit office also claims that the Government will miss its target of 160,000 new homes by 2016 unless it doubles the building rate. Only about 24,000 were built between 2001 and 2005.

So, who will take bets in this target being watered down aswell?