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Housing Crisis - today's march in London is a token one!

Dotheyknowwhathousingis? | 31.01.2015 13:57 | Indymedia | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | London | World

1346 Sat 31 Jan 2015
The London Evening Standard website is carrying a post timed at 1308 saying there is a march underway to tell Boris ti solve the Housing Crisis in London
That is, to put it kindle, banal and ignorant and the timing is opportunistic for
most "mainstream" Politicos supporting the event today



 http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/march-for-homes-london-city-hall-housing-crisis-boris-johnson-protesters-10015502.html


1346 Sat 31 Jan 2015
The London Evening Standard website is carrying a post timed at 1308 saying there is a march underway to tell Boris ti solve the Housing Crisis in London
That is, to put it kindle, banal and ignorant and the timing is opportunistic for
most "mainstream" Politicos supporting the event today

The “not-Tory” “supporters” of this “march” have not said how they Understand Housing crisis to have reached the point it has done

One “leading” “campaigner” is cited as Eileen Short whose “most severe criticism”
as contained in the Evening Standard piece is to “condemn” “Council’s for building “rabbit hutches”!

That is a very representative sentiment that sums up the “Politics” or the state of “Politics” behind this event today!

The truth is that the Housing crisis has been being caused daily by the behaviour of local Councils and the majority of the local Councils in the worst affected areas are
politically Labour Party controlled

What do the “protesters” have to offer by way of Political Answers to that truth?

Dotheyknowwhathousingis?

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March for Homes - fuck the trolls

31.01.2015 17:44

Glad to see that the trolls are rattled by today's protest, but the troll article above here is factually nonsense because - the housing crisis has been caused by the behaviour of Thatcher's Tory government, which forced local councils to sell their housing stock at rock-bottom prices, and then banned those same councils from re-investing money made by those sales back into social housing

Compounded by the actions of avaricious property developers

2015


Oh FFS

31.01.2015 17:47

"To put it kindle, banal and ignorant" and "has been being caused"?

Learn to WRITE, before you troll

abc


get the facts right before you rush showing your idiocy

31.01.2015 21:12


Stop using Thatcher as an excuse, you ignorant, cowardly twats
Or
Stop using Thatcher as an excuse, you ignorant, cowardly twat if it is the same
twat doing the two stupid trolls.

Thatcher was nowhere in sight, you stupid C**** when Prescott
made Thatcher’s R2B worse and got the Council Housing stock
transferred.

Nether Thatcher nor Prescott stopped the Councils from mounting
systematic challenges according to the fucking procedures, you shitbag/s.

So stop being so pathetic and start reading the thoughts, the ideas, you ****
in the Comment.

Housing Crisis is not a playground lark, you ********

There are layers and layers in the whole process that causes housing problems.

To take moron/s such as you through the stages would explode your
pathetic excuse for a brain or for brains.

You obviously find it hard work being told the facts.

So why don’t you buzz off to the nearest *****hole and
be spared the ardour f having to understand demanding Comments and learn from those about the issues?....

Dotheyknowwhathousingis?


Response to Dotheyknow?

01.02.2015 18:07

Response to Dotheyknow (but with less swearing) - Thatcher's right-to-buy policy is not an "excuse", but a factual reality at the very core of London's contemporary housing shortage. Whatever (John) Prescott did doesn't alter the reality of that which happened under Thatcher. No-one is pretending that Labour failed to redress problems caused by the Tories.

Try to keep up.

And explain how proving your posts are nonsense is "cowardly", by the way?

Authorial


To the ignorant authoritarian Authorial

02.02.2015 21:45

“Whatever (John) Prescott did doesn't alter the reality of that which happened under Thatcher. No-one is pretending that Labour failed to redress problems caused by the Tories.”

Did you “author” the second sentence?
Did you mean what it says?
Or are you as proudly, courageously as stupid as the “others” you pretend to be standing up for on this?
That is, assuming the three posts are not the products of the same
sock-puppet.
If you meant to post what the sentence says then you are saying in
a negative form that failure is success and that Labour succeeded in redressing the
problems caused by Thatcher.
In any case, none of the spiels procured by the TU barons from their nominated
tokens at the rally contained any programme except a few
slogans that are not new, nor original nor comprehensive

Get a grip on the facts of the matter before posting ignorant
authoritarian shit

Dotheyknowwhathousingis?


Homeless writes Saturday 07 February 2015

07.02.2015 15:50

Homeless writes Saturday 07 February 2015

I wonder if the really clever people going on about the march for Boris
Johnson have any interest in looking at his records on housing since being
allowed in at the May 2008 poll
Boris Johnson did make a statement that at the time received very high profile coverage by the BBC and others in the mainstream Media.

That was about ‘social cleansing’.
So far as evidence goes, that was Boris Johnson’s second, socially-responsible ‘stance’
After he swiftly moved to end the tenure at the Met of the Iain Blair Commissioner regime.

If we look at Boris Johnson’s other actions since becoming Mayor of London, the evidence shows that he has cancelled out all the positive impact of the two (above).
Boris Johnson has failed to follow up his stated stance (2010) on ‘social cleansing’,
He has equally failed to do anything about the main issue of social housing.
And the rest is easily verifiable by looking him up on all the main search engines.
Back to that march for Boris- why do I call it ‘March for Boris’?
Because being a Saturday, it was not going to be a working day so he had an excuse.
Even with the strength of the case for social housing, the turnout was poor and worse still, the actual ‘project’.
If you take away the women from ‘Focus E15’
No real demand was heard or articulated.
This is because the Labour Party is not really any different from the Tories, as was made very clear with the transfer of Council housing stock.
You look at the ‘Morning Star’ and even they could not find one single
Genuine housing rights campaigner from Tower Hamlets who had a complete narrative.
And the barrenness goes on elsewhere too.
Although the Guardian does have a long list on trendily-worded housing-linked problems, the substance is lacking.
The Guardian has refused to examine the role of the real housing crisis-makers among the institutions and or agencies of the State, namely the following:-
1 The local Councils who have the largest data bases and the most extensive issues about housing as the primary issue and the related consequences
2 The County Courts that are responsible for rubber stamping most evictions

The Guardian has failed to initiate due examination of these and has also discouraged the truth of the role of these two main causers of the Housing crisis from being
recognised and dealt with.

The third area the Guardian has also left uncovered is the Housing Associations, who form the biggest block containing social housing responsibilities and powers
The housing rights lawyers are the next group who too enjoy a soft treatment from the Guardian.

So even when the Guardian is ‘not like the BBC’, the substance is not really any better than what the BBC’s denial of the events is.

If there is a Housing crisis it is caused by the crises that exist in the above areas too. They are linked.

Homeless


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