Tubby Isaacs wrote:refitman wrote:---
But we need more home people can actually afford to buy and more social housing. Not 40% "affordable", which will be outside the means of the people that most need them.
The mayor can knock the plans about till they're acceptable. Councils have been kept going in very difficult times by property development. While I don't see the defeat of HDV as anything other than a grassroots revolt (from people who aren't even all Labour supporters- the Tories probably do fairly well among older white tenants- let alone all leftists) , I'm not entirely confident the new folk understand the shit that local government's in without this developer money.
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Local government get their funding from Westminster, from government
UK government is not owned by housing developers
There is business and there is government and they're not the same
Peoples' interests and their lives are protected by elected public servants, by government
Government has the authority to do what is necessary protecting the lives and interests of every person in the UK
It was a mistake not to have returned a Labour government in 2015, Ed Miliband was a good leader
We're here now, country and people in the hands of dismayingly bad Tory leadership
I've no doubt a Labour government will honourably govern in the interests of people and country
I hope there's people and nation left when the Tories are gone