Was out posting my Whistle Blower newsletter today and by chance I bumped into the New Deal for Communities resident board member who is supposed to be representing the resident in a part of the New Deal zone were I live. A bitter argument took place between us and he levelled all sorts of slanderous allegations against me calling me all sorts of names. I asked him how he slept knowing that he, as a homeowner, was partly responsible for the New Deal administrators plans to throw as many tenants out of the New Deal area as they push ahead with their social cleansing plans because they want to gentrify the area. At one stage he rushed towards me pointing his finger at me and for a split second I thought he was going to attack me.

This is how bad things are in the New Deal area. The 10 community board members, nine of whom are homeowners, are slowly becoming strangers in their own communities (the New deal area has been split into five areas with 2 board members representing each area. There are 22 people on the board, 10 of them are community members) and those same communities have not got a clue as to what they are up to.

This £62m regeneration money is tearing my community apart. One-time friends are now bitter enemies and a wedge has been driven between the homeowners and the tenants. The tenants are in a 60 per cent majority in the New Deal area yet the homeowners are calling all the shots. The homeowners who are involved want to see the back of us tenants. As far as they are concerned we are second class citizens and as such should be thrown out of the community.