http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article6223112.ece

From what I can see the divide is becoming increasing apparent. The land is split into current property owners and those for whom it is impossible to become a property owner. With the collapse of industry, the main way to make money out of the poor is through a quasi-feudal system of property ownership`.

These are the people who bothered to vote New Labour in and these are the same people who will vote the Conservatives in. These are the people calling for discipline, for protesters to be shot, for more roads to be built, for an end to taxes especially on flights to the Caribbean. Some of the comments at the end of the article are revealing. These are the type of people we are up against. And some of these will be the ones that welcome the rise of the strong man or perhaps woman. (Incidentally, i wonder what Hitler would have made with Twitter)

What the article doesn´t say is that as banks repossess busted buy to let properties and take over control of failed construction companies they are themselves becoming the landlords.

It is our acceptance of this system that is our principal weakness. OK so we may get housing benefit but this serves only to pay off the mortgages of the already wealthy increasing their control.

A few days ago someone was talking about an overall strategy or even an ideology. For fucks sake we need something. A few hundred people on the move in Brighton is unlikely to change much by itself. We need to get people on side.

We could start by talking about organizing strikes- that is to say rent strikes and debt repayment strikes. This could be combined with a concerted effort to challenge the immense power of the credit rating agencies like Standard & Poors or Moodys. For example, it is said that if the UKs credit rating is downgraded we will be in trouble as a country in the same way that we might be if Experian were to downgrade as individuals.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_%26_Poor%27s

The credit rating agencies are the weak spot in the present financial and corporate oligocracy. They can only be undermined by a rejection of their authority and a campaign to close them down.