If Jeremy Corbyn wins – what to do – Owen Jones
August 17th, 2015
If Jeremy Corbyn wins . . .
Firstly, the mother of all voter registration drives has to be unleashed. The poorer you are in modern Britain, the less likely you are to vote.Labour received its second highest share of the vote from 18-24 year-olds since 1974, but less than half of them voted. Barack Obama triumphed because of a strategy of ‘expanding the electorate’.
Jeremy Corbyn in Glasgow – August 14th 2015
August 15th, 2015
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Jeremy Corbyn Glasgow speech (40m)
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No I wasn’t there, I’m just posting the links.
Trident
Joanna Spiers, from the East End of Glasgow, who found herself sharing a train carriage with Corbyn on Friday, says: “I felt like someone was speaking to me about the Labour of my youth, my upbringing. I haven’t been able to feel trust like that since John Smith was alive. And, whisper it, but I don’t even think his ideas are that radical!”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/15/jeremy-corbyn-campaign-scotland-corbynmania
Jeremy Corbyn at Norwich – August 6th 2015
August 7th, 2015
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Cameron on housing in 2010 – revisited
May 9th, 2015
Having been reminded of one of my articles on housing and the Tories by people in the stats reading it this week I decided to take another look and revisit the links where necessary. They’re all still valid and now perhaps more so given what we are about to face if he lasts five years. [See note at bottom * – Ed.]
Here are a few links I gathered together last year in 2010 on Cameron’s attitude to housing. I’m loath to delete them so here they are (again) as a reference point of 2010 in politics and the Tory approach to those in need of a roof over their heads.
It seems quite apt to post them again given that the Tory conference 2011 has just finished and the only thing we’ve heard is the utter stupidity of widen right to buy.
Cameron blog roundup
May 9th, 2015
This collection of links appears to have caused something of a minor flurry of interest, at least in proportion to the hits my blog normally gets. A few weeks ago I had a clear out of minor and link based articles from a few years ago which had Cameron’s name in and seemed irrelevant. Thanks to Google cache I’ve recovered them so for what it’s worth here they are in short order.
UK election result 2015
May 9th, 2015
Why the SNP?
May 2nd, 2015
I read this letter by Andrew Brewer last night in the London Evening Standard (online) and it struck a chord. At last I understand clearly why the Scots will not be voting Labour. They’ve got more sense.
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Their politics are more progressive than we have had the benefit of South of the border for 35 years although I suspect just as many down here think left hence the #greensurge. The Scots still understand what left wing means, unlike the Labour party, and they are prepared to vote in favour of a party with left wing policies. If only @uklabour were more courageous they’d have my vote.
Link to referenced article:-
https://www.standard.co.uk/Matthew D’ancona
I disagree with D’ancona. It’s typical of the LES to employ columnists with those views but he underestimates the feeling in the rest of the country, outside London, and with regard to housing, inside London, for a wind that doesn’t blow from Eton.
Buy back right to buy leaseholds
April 26th, 2015
Perched in London is somebody I have a lot of time for. Working in the housing sector and with extensive knowledge of the problems faced by the elderly who undertook right to buy while being poorly advised in many cases, @cityeyrie is acutely aware of the problems faced as councils routinely land leaseholders with bills for thousands of pounds at the wrong end of their lives when many if not all would have been better off remaining as council tenants.
Architectural Review – C20th Housing
April 25th, 2015
This article is worth reading
“As large housing estates are being demolished and the age of great social democracies recedes, taking with it any notion of an architecture for the public, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf asks if there is any alternative to building capital”
Labour has allowed the Conservatives to frame its politics
April 15th, 2015
George Monbiot is well worth reading in today’s Guardian, here are a few extracts . . .
In reality, the deficit should rank somewhere in the low hundreds on the list of political priorities. It’s a con; an excuse for redrafting the social contract on behalf of the elite. But Labour has meekly acquiesced to this agenda, disputing only the extent of its application.
By accepting your opponents’ frame, you reinforce their power, allowing them to pull the entire polity into their own arena. No Labour capitulation has been as extreme and catastrophic as the one with which it begins this year’s manifesto.
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