The housing crisis will not be solved with platitudes or blaming others.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/15/theresa-may-conservatives-broken-housing-market-housebuilding-budget

Theresa May vows to personally take charge of the UK’s housing crisis

Theresa May vows to personally solve the housing crisis in the United Kingdom. One of the first measures she announces is to remove housing association debt from the government's balance sheet, meaning it will no longer qualify as public borrowing and effectively remove Social Housing from the public sector and hand it to the private sector as a "give away" which, she tells us will "  free up associations to build more homes". Complete nonsense. The reality is that it makes "the governments books look better" and gives the private sector another avenue of opportunity in their quest to make even more profits from the housing crisis and its victims.This is against a background of the fact that the number of council homes in Britain has fallen to a new record low, with fewer properties to rent from local authorities than at any point in almost 50 years.

Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, wades in with his contribution calling on older people to stop blocking badly needed new developments and lambasting baby boomers who believe young people could afford a home if they cut back on nights out and avocados. The arrogance of Javid with his ignorant comments, matched by a Prime Minister with her condescending remarks, demonstrate the continuing tactics of a bankrupt government who offer nothing but platitudes and a not very well hidden objective of a divide and control policy, pitting young against the "baby boomers" in a feeble attempt to divert attention away from the real problem.

Shifting housing association debt from one account to another and blaming one generation, creating a scapegoat for the failure of housing policy, is not the answer. As someone recently said, “We know what you are doing, and you will not succeed,” 

The solution to the housing crisis, which has been neglected by successive governments for decades, requires the building of homes on a scale not seen since the end of the war. Building a minimum of 1 million homes over the course of a Parliament, 80% of which must be home specifically for rent, will go some way to relieving the acute problems faced by thousands of families in today's Britain.The people of this country have a right to decent living accommodation at affordable cost and can no longer tolerate a government offering nothing but platitudes and division.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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