Single Aspect Blog

Well, that’s what happens when the Left fiddles with everything.

As Family and Kinship in The East showed, the Left didn’t like working class housing being private and didn’t like it being handed – via the rent man – down through well-behaved working class families.

Many of the ‘slum’ clearances were nothing of the kind- ask Timothy Spall who used to live in a perfectly decent working class street in Battersea (from where I’m now writing) which was taken over by the local council and demolished never to be re-built.

Spall’s family was decanted to a new tower block nearby.

Today we are watching the Left dismantling its housing shame (and the peak of its meddling in society) as the Aylesbury estate comes down and Tweed House is boarded up.

Remember it was the post-war Tories who built a huge number of houses for workers (which is what they wanted) and it wasn’t until the early 1960s that the municipal Left got hold of the situation and flattened (rather than replaced) the terraces people wanted and replaced them with tower blocks they didn’t.

Research showed that the working poor wanted ‘their own front door and a garden to grow veg’. The ‘planners’ were incensed because they wanted the workers in flats. Even before the war, lefty meddlers were citing workers flats in Scandinavia as the way forward.

It should also be noted that it was the Left that wanted to disperse people to distant tower block estates reduce inner city ‘overcrowding’ – a massive misjudgment.

The cobblers about right to buy is just that. The houses were not destroyed – they still have lower income families living in them. Ex-council houses are still generally the cheapest on the market, so they are still budget accommodation in a sense.

Here’s a challenge. What’s the bigger number, the number of council properties sold to tenants or the number of council properties that became uninhabitable because they were on terrible human sink etsates or badly built or both?

Answers on a postcard to

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https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/davehillblog/2010/dec/01/london-housing-benefit-barking-and-dagenham#start-of-comments

However the most extreme point of view about the left I ever saw was a contributor to a newsgroup to which I subscribe, who said the following about the left.

“Socialism is the legitimising of theft, jealousy and envy and in its name Socialists steal from those who have and give to themselves the funds which they feel that they, although never having directly worked for, are theirs by right, in the name of fairness and equality.

They always have and always will act in the same manner, it is in their DNA, ask Gordon McSnot.”

This is so extreme and utter tripe that I can’ t take it seriously but it shows the thinking of Daily Torygraph readers.