On a day that Wolseley has announced 6,000 job cuts and when the employment figures are looking decidedly shaky, even without the effects of the recent cull by house builders, the latest efforts by Caroline Flint to ease pain in the market seem rather puny.

I could go into a detailed deconstruction, but it seems fair enough just to say something old, something new and plenty to keep the industry and those excluded from decent homes feeling blue…

But please let me know if I have missed something of note in the plan, as I trudged through things I thought I had read a few times before.