Blair’s policy experts with their mouths tucked firmly between the cheeks of the corporate & private landlord are floating a package of reforms which will end council tenant’s right to a home for life.

Under the proposals suggested by the Blair strategy unit they would do away with secured tenancies in favour of a fixed term contract of five or ten years.

The arguments for this proposal centres on the blame for long housing waiting lists and the housing benefit system, which the unit says hands tenants `effective property rights`.

This argument is preposterous, illogical and an excuse in line privatisation plans and the future agenda of disenfranchisement of tenants.

Any suggestion or faith remonstrated in a Labour backbench backlash to the proposals to rewrite labour’s history of protecting tenants rights are illusionary as Prescott’s & Hill’s determination and belligerence in the face of mounting argument against privatisation has not been shifted by either campaign group or quango argument for real choice.

The argument for a shift in tactics to street demonstrations, rent strikes and a concerted national campaign informing tenants of such proposals is needed. The threat to our right of a home and security within it is dangerously close to being lost forever.

(Source information;  http://www.insidehousing.co.uk )