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Monday, 1 June 2015

All Tory policies and London councils in this together to get poor folk off 'their' monopoly board?

This report from research by Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth lays
bare the social cleansing underway in London with the active support of
local councils, argues a report by Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth.(1)

See also 

 Veteran Scottish community social worker Bob Holman on why poor people must meet [the Prime Minister of the day].(2)

And now Secretary of State for Work & Pensions Iain Duncan Smith's 2009 admission to the Fabian Society that Thatcherite 'right-to-buy' policies had led to ghettoisation.(3)

And, amidst all the stuff about £12bn further welfare cuts and reducing the 'benefit cap' and disability benefits still further, consider: is social cleansing now exposed as the end game of Government social policies, or is it an 'unintended consequence'?

Notes


(1) http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/05/8-key-findings-into-council-administered-social-cleansing-in-london/

(2) http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-care-experts-blog/2008/02/poor-must-meet-gordon/

(3) http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-policy-blog/2009/03/iain-duncan-smith-admits-ghett/

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Sunday, 6 July 2014

Tory Party - A Multinational Profit Seeking Sect

Tory Party - A Multinational Profit Seeking Sect




From Revd Paul Nicolson of Taxpayers Against Poverty  





See
Will Hutton's piece in The Observer this morning.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/05/david-cameron-tories-summer-ball-dark-side-global-capitalism

His analysis of the current conservative party as multinational libertarian sect whose preoccupations are the seeking of risk free profit tucked away in tax free overseas accounts adds a modern dimension to Marxist analysis. Marx identified class conflict as the lever for radical social change. That conflict is here in the UK for those with the eyes
,
or the imagination
,
to see it. Disgust and a passion for change are felt by many of us at the opulence of the political parties' fundraising dinners while millions of UK citizens are hungry. Some visit food banks and
the
Churches
,
who dole out minimum rations for a few days.

It definitely does not follow that Christians
,
who recognise class conflict for what it is
,
sign up to violent revolution; but the injustice of current laws imposing inadequate incomes and unaffordable housing on the already impoverished, and a growing proportion of the population, will certainly lead to non-violent direct action in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, Frederic Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.