Breaking ranks from their national federation several arms length management organisations (AMLO`s) have questioned government plans to change the way they are financed as it will leave them in the red and unable to meet the decent homes standard.

Operating on another planet is no excuse; as it seems many council’s that took this option believing it would be the answer to all their problems amid the backlash against privatisation, have been warned again after again that ALMO`s were just the means by which neo-labour could achieve a two stage privatisation of council housing.

The looser as Labours devious housing plans unfold is not the ALMO as the working class tenants that have been forced into these organisations can only look forward to more abuse of their rights. Unable to finance ever rising standards the only option open to ALMO`s to remain afloat is to either Transfer or float as a private company that is open to the vagaries of individual or institutional abuse i.e. Stock market.

In light of recent developments the government’s option to throw these organisations to market for the lions to strip them of their flesh is more plausible as the realisation of the capital value of land to build exclusive executive residences would fall in line with Blair’s entrepreneurial views.

If the spirit of the “Poll Tax Riots” was ever needed it is Now, while this slow creep into the social apartheid goes unheeded by political will to change. The magnitude of the argument before each is how far does the privatised sphere have to encroach on our private lives before the abuse we will suffer will give us the will to stand on the street to say;

“Hands off our Homes, Out of our Pocket`s & Off Our Fucking Heritage”