Mayor’s Question Time – Housing
February 24th, 2010
Boris Johnson blustered and blathered his way through a twenty minute grilling from Nicky Gavron who did well to stick to her brief given Boris’s ignorant and uninformed replies. The man both knows nothing about the situation on the ground nor appears to care.
Not once did he use the terms social rented or council housing, nor even council tenant. He repeatedly used the term affordable as if this were the only form of housing available or envisaged for the future and this in spite of the london.gov.uk website proudly proclaiming that . . .
The Mayor is working to provide many more social rented homes and ensure that social renting provides an opportunity to foster aspirations and gives support to those who need it.
It’s one thing to take a hands off approach, it’s quite another not to even acknowledge that you’re in charge of the process and ought therefore to know the basic facts.