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.
Johann Hari: Welcome to Cameron land [5th May 2010] on the policies of Tory Hammersmith & Fulham as was
Welcome to Cameron land [5th May 2010] (from archive, be patient)
David Cameron announces plan to end lifetime council tenancies [3rd August 2010]
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/03/lifetime-council-tenancies-contracts-cameron
London housing crisis: the roots of David Cameron’s council tenancy debate [5th August 2010] – Dave Hill on transience and right wing housing policies
Any Questions discussion about the Cameron comments [6th August 2010]
“Is the solution to the lack of affordable housing to evict others from their homes?” – Jenny Burnett
“Eviction is not the answer” – Sarah Churchill
I’ve seen American public housing we don’t want to go that way – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
“If you have anything that is to any degree subsidised, a queue forms” – Dominic Lawson
Like Help to Buy & Help to Buy 2 you mean?
By the way the word subsidised is often misunderstood as I’ve written about here
BBC Any Questions clip on council housing – YouTube
Any Answers discussion about the Cameron comments [7th August 2010]
“A council home should not be a home for life as of right” – David Cameron
“Bombing and machine gunning stability in communities” – Pearl Belfrey (caller)
“You don’t think that as it’s supported by the council tax payer that the council tax payer might say well it would be good now for you to go into a smaller place as people who in private housing very often have to do?” – Jonathan Dimbleby
[The council tax payers are not keeping the council tenants – this ignorance from someone who ought to know better makes me angry – Ed.]
“The reason that we have got to this situation is very largely because of the complete deficit in council houses since Mrs Thatcher in the 1980s who decided to sell off all the council houses” – Anne (caller)
“You can’t put them out on the street in the way that is being proposed” – Anne (caller)
BBC Any Answers clip on council housing – YouTube
David Cameron’s council housing plans opposed by majority of Lib Dem MPs [8th August 2010]
https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/08/david-cameron-council-housing-plans-opposed
* I have never before seen an article of mine so quickly taken up in one afternoon. Posted at yesterday May 9th at lunchtime it has by now seen 47 hits on https://www.xav.com/scripts/axs/ and they’re only the ones I know about, far more go unrecorded as I can tell from the live stats which are harder to get at, so AXS is just an indication.
It’s not even an article, just a series of links but it shows what interest there is in what Cameron might be planning now he is free of the LimpDem curse. None of it is likely to be good, I think we all know that.