Agenda 2019

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homelessness-soars-40-under-tories-6506576           Homelessness soars 40% under the Tories - and charities blame welfare cuts         Criminal outrage. This country desperately requires the construction of 700,000 new homes of which 80% must be social housing. In the 21st Century it is indefensible that people are living in overcrowded conditions, are unable to find accommodation either for rent or purchase, or are homeless on the streets of our town and cities.   Crisis:  UK faces the biggest housing shortage since WWI    It is a moral and social outrage and successive governments should be ashamed of their failures to address this affront civilised society.

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11739329.Honesty_not_the_best_policy_as_Cornwall_Council_refuses_to_house_ex_soldier_and_family/?ref=mr Cornwall Council refuses to house ex-soldier and family Jamie and Charmaine Streets and their four children, Suvannah,  Briea,  Leo,  and Tyler   Since the mid 1980's Councils across England have been using the "intentionally homeless" reasoning to abdicate any responsibility for providing housing to families or even individuals, no matter what the circumstances of any particular case may be. Council housing officials often will say privately to councillors (I know because it has been said to me) that there is a chronic shortage of available housing due to government restrictions on building social housing. This is, and has been for the past 30 years, an outrageous and unacceptable situation where ordinary and usually deserving families, are penalised for the failure of successive government policies in respect o...

  This thought should be remembered by all those, who demonise, demean, mock, patronise or otherwise insult the sick,the disabled, the unemployed, the benefit claimants, those reliant on Foodbanks and other charities, the poor and the homeless and all those other sections of our society who are vulnerable and least able to defend themselves.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/03/80000-children-to-spend-c_n_4208853.html?1383550880&utm_hp_ref=uk  More than 80,000 children in the UK will spend this Christmas homeless 21st Century Britain   80,000 children on the streets, one million households using "Pay day loan" sharks, 750,000 people reliant on Foodbanks. All just part of the misery that is Great Britain in the winter of 2013. Add to this the households facing fuel poverty due to the excesses of the energy companies or the households where overcrowding is a major problem due to the failure of governments to address the housing crisis. The neglect of successive governments over many years compounded now by the ConDem coalition with their drive for "austerity", has created this situation and we should all feel shame for allowing it to happen. In the first quarter of the 21st Century, Britain is becoming a nation where self interest and indifference in many parts of society, not ...