Agenda 2019

https://www.rt.com/uk/342381-ajax-tanks-steel-crisis/ What steel crisis? 100 British ‘supertanks’ to be built with Swedish steel… in Spain The Ajax battle tank. The first 100 of 600 to be built,and made in Spain. Another aspect of this Conservative governments indifference to the effects of their policies. Add this to the scandal of the millions of tonnes of steel required for the Cross Rail link, HS2 project, new ships for the Navy and other projects, all being supplied from other countries, predominately China. The British steel industry dies due to the governments failure to allow steel to compete on a level playing field with other steel producers and in consequence thousand of wo rkers lose their jobs, thousands of families, reliant on the steel industry and associated businesses, are forced onto welfare and whole communities become no more than ghost towns. The dogma of "competition" (sprinkled with the stench of government complicity in the awarding of...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rabbithutch-britain-growing-health-concerns-as-uk-sets-record-for-smallest-properties-in-europe-9544450.html     Rabbit-hutch Britain: Growing health concerns as UK sets record for smallest properties in Europe Northfield House. Peckham   I was brought up in a flat in Peckham, in fact,  in the block shown shown here.  Northfield house, Peckham Park Road , London SE 15. One of the 2 bedroom flats, was recently advertised for sale at £275,000, which no one around at that time would have believed to be possible. Not only the price, but the fact that a Council flat was for sale in the open market. That was in the days before the "Parker Morris" standards, but the flat was just adequate for mum, dad and the young John Yates. Progress decreed that from 1967 these "Parker Morris" space standards would become mandatory for all housing built in new towns, and be extended to all council housing in 1...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/even-a-vote-for-nick-clegg-is-better-than-not-voting-8930814.html "Even a vote for Nick Clegg is better than not voting" says John Rentoul. John Rentoul. "Independent"   Refusing to vote, stems not from voter apathy, but from the cynicism and hypocrisy of politicians of all parties. A vote, even for Clegg (perhaps the most hypocritical of all the motley collection on offer) as you suggest, indicates an endorsement of the party or the policies proposed. The "party manifesto" has only ever been (with the possible exception of the 1945 Labour Party manifesto), an inducement to place your "X" in a particular box on the ballot form.The reality is that following the election, manifesto commitments are discarded because "it is not possible to implement them during this parliament due to mess left by the previous administration". The government of whatever political positi...

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/21/labour-radical-change-austerity-ed-miliband Labour can achieve radical change amid austerity, says Ed Miliband Ed Milliband     Almost with every passing day, Milliband confirms that the Labour Party of today, is a party almost indistinguishable from the other political parties of mainstream politics in the United Kingdom. His comparison with 1945 demonstrates that his knowledge of history is severely limited or at best patently selective. The Labour Government of 1945 did indeed achieve radical social change in this country in a time of austerity, but such change was brought about by a complete programme of reform social, economic and political which totally transformed society and reversed the imbalances between working people and their employers which had plagued Britain for generations. Clement Attlee   Today, Milliband accepts the coalition spending plans, offers no plans to reverse the d...