Axe the Housing Bill
Today I went yesterday with CJ from KUWG to show solidarity with other groups protesting on Parliament Square about the Housing Bill.
ASH, Architects for Social Housing wrote on their fb page afterwards
"NO PLATFORM FOR LABOUR LIES
A heartwarming photograph of the Labour activists from Axe the Housing Act with Mayor Philip Glanville (second row with the hipster beard) ‘standing up for Londoners’ outside Parliament today. As Hackney Labour’s Cabinet Member for Housing, the recently elected Labour Mayor of Hackney oversaw the demolition of 18 council estates in the borough, including 400 homes on the Colville Estate, over 400 homes on the Haggerston West and Kingsland estates, 503 homes on the Nightingale Estate, and 1,980 homes on the Woodberry Down Estate. In the year 2015-16, apart from the 39 homes from GLA programmes, Hackney Labour Council built precisely zero (0) homes for social rent. Despite this record, this month the Labour Mayor declared that: ‘Hackney is building more social housing than anywhere else in London’. Glanville has also put his full support behind the plans by the Guinness Partnership to demolish the Northwold Estate, which Hackney Labour Council sold to the housing association in a stock transfer. So if you’re ever thinking of inviting the ‘grass-roots activists’ from Axe the Housing Act into your campaign, remember who they invite into theirs. With thanks to Luke Barratt for bringing our attention to Glanville’s lies."
I'm a labour member and a unite member, but I am open to everything being scrutinised... Most of the councils in charge of regeneratin and responsible for the dismantling of communities are Labour and Jeremy Corbyn has remained quiet about certain housing issues which is very disappointing. Sadiq Khan sold himslef as a working class lad of a bus driver that grew up on an estate and is proving to be one of the biggest working class sellouts ever in my view, as he smoozes with the zionists and even betrays the leader of his party. Khan promised more social housing, this social housing is infact housing that will be sold at 80% market value and barely any social rentable housing in London as his eyes light up at the propspect of further foreign investment.
When British people complain about foreogners taking all our homes they are right, but not in the sense that the homes are occupied, much of the country especially high yeilding areas as London are being sold to foreign investors that have a holiday home or just keep it for a profit and they sit empty, just like on the Battersea Power Station site.... Coucil estates are being eroding by taking the low hanging fruit, neglected like haggerstonn Estate was in the film Estate by Zimmerman and then the normalisation of the regeneration by the locals is more palatable to digest! Its a slow burner but slowly and surely this is happening all over London. The councils and housing associations that are now turning a profit at the hands of the housing market value has abandoned much of its original mission. Any Labour Council such as Lambeth, Camden and haringey is a disgrace and proves that the blurred lines that Blair created between Labour or New Labour and the right really is a huge problem. This is why Corbyn does have a bigger more vigilante following than Blair as he is more in touch with the grassroots ideals of the Labour Party, yet I personally want to see him do more, even the emails I have sent asking him to address socially affordable rental homes have never been answered, or I doubt will be..
