Michael Dixon
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Comment on: Councils still unhappy over right to buy
I went to a talk on T Dan Smith a month or two back in Newcastle. A revisionist effort semi-justifying corruption in the north east Labour Party, by a bunch of idealist middle class "socialists."
Chris. Time the rotten lot were replaced? By? The model of governments led by the Castros, Matyas Rakosi or General Pinochet. You seem to have little time for those positioned in-between, so to speak. -
Comment on: Councils still unhappy over right to buy
This article does not specify which Councils. The body representing them, the LGA, is being taken on face value here. Which ones are objecting? Are they in the majority? Are there political divides?
I think Chris above will find that private developers flourished very nicely under the last Labour Government (unlike him I have no information as to whether they were friends), from 1997-2010. -
Comment on: Right to buy letter under fire for ‘irresponsibility’
Thanks to Bannside for the confirmation and agree with the political scoreline.
Tim Powell is actually 10 years out. Edward Heath introduced the right to buy in 1970 but the desire for tenants to take it further was much less evident than in the early 1980's.
I think, too, that some Councils, whatever their politics, sold some of their properties to occasional tenant purchasers even before 1970. -
Comment on: Right to buy letter under fire for ‘irresponsibility’
What a fuss about next to nothing.
Councils can use whatever wording thay like and this is a guide for a policy in which a particlular government is enthusiastic.
Taking into account the personal debt accrued by households during the Blair/Brown "yuppie" era, and this Government's attempts to reduce debt over a 5 year period from 2010, I think those who go down that road of criticism are being selective in the points raised.
There are still many from the political left who have never got over Labour's initial enthusiasm for and then misjudged rejection of, the right-to-buy scheme, in the mid 1970's.
They still think and speak as though they know what is best for people, while themselves owning the properties in which they live. -
Comment on: Government policies 'are failing housing'
Two questions, political. One, were these marks dished out to the previous government for 13 years? Second, is there anyone who wrote this report with past/present connections to the the Labour Party.
I do not know the answer to either but would be obliged to find out with a submission from someone who does.
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