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’.
Right to buy – Independent
August 17th, 2015
To describe social housing as subsidised – as critics of councils and housing associations often do – is a fallacy. The one-off development cost of building a social home is supported by government, but the rental value of that home repays the investment. Money spent on social housing quickly becomes a public asset.
Following the revelation that getting on for 40% of former council homes are now let out for private rent there have been a flurry of articles in the media, all of which I’ve read looking for nuggets of truth, but in my view this is the best one and I’ve picked out a few paragraphs of interest. I am so glad they included the paragraph on subsidy about which I have written elsewhere.