Building homes is way forward
RECENT articles by your correspondent, Tristram Hunt, had me smiling.
His recent approach to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations encourages us to ignore her life-long dedication to the country and to support great achievements by historical individuals instead.
What I can't understand is why we just can't celebrate this wonderful national event without offering a Stoke-on-Trent spoiler?
As a rule of thumb well-heeled public schoolboys shouldn't drop into a city such as this one seeking cheap points from the working classes at the expense of a defenceless Queen. It makes us look unnecessarily disrespectful and furthers an outside image we dislike.
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Tristram tried for more points with his unwarranted attack upon the homeless of Newham and their council.
This is now quite rightly seen as a Labour council's playing politics with one of the burning issues of the day.
Before I was informed that my 30 years of Labour Party membership was meaningless and was relieved of all senior duties regarding Stoke Central management, I pushed forward a Conference motion requiring the immediate (Labour) Government-led rebuilding of the nation's housing stock.
Five million people in the UK do not have a home to call their own and 13 years of Labour Government refused to address this problem.
I ran so hard with this proposal, that when the opportunity arose to stand in the General Election of 2010, I published it as a manifesto aim to promote a rebuild of at least one million new homes across Great Britain.
The Sentinel's Joe Watts, a London based political journalist, asked me what the big political issue of the day was. I said that from 2009 onwards the correct answer was not 'jobs' but the economy.
Untested quantative easing (QE) ignores a capital infrastructure spend addressing the issue of needy families requiring a roof over their own heads.
The simple answer is to kill two birds with one stone by rebuilding the economy with a massive house building programme.
Building at least one million new homes will create millions of paid hours, serviced by hundreds of thousands of new jobs and creating tens of thousands of apprenticeships.
Failure by the Labour Party to enact this rebuild programme over a 13-year stretch in power is not an excuse for Labour MPs to pass the blame to any government forced to pick up the pieces of a broken economy mismanaged by the last Labour government.
GARY ELSBY
Baddeley Green
Comments
by DoctorDo
Thursday, May 03 2012, 7:10PM
“Surely the expression is 'toe the line'?”
by strandedhere
Thursday, May 03 2012, 6:38PM
“Tsk.Hunt may swing the lead,but he doesn't tow any lines.I should have said he's careful not to rock the Labour Party boat.
Hastily logs off to avoid Titanic=reference temptation...”
by strandedhere
Thursday, May 03 2012, 6:23PM
“Can't help feeling that there should be a recognition that demand for housing is tied to population growth.Labour were determined to add to the pressure from the birthrate,by increasing the numbers of new-arrivals into the country,many from countries where women have no say in whether they're going to give birth.
I've met Hunt twice,expressing enormous concerns about the treatment my folks have had at the hands of the council.His response was to write to them,and then forward to me their reply that they're the best dam' council in the country.I think he just doesn't get it.
Is Hunt one of those people who can see injustice a thousand miles away,and hundreds of years ago,but not here and now? Or is he just towing the line?
Sigh.I can see that I'll have to dress up as a Molly Maguire,a Leveller,a Woblly,or a Chartist at his next surgery to get his attention.I draw the line at Rebecca.”
by Dizzy1960
Thursday, May 03 2012, 11:27AM
“Quite right Gary, "GOD SAVE OUR QUEEN".
She is defensless to the onslaught of manipulation of the people by the GIMP's - Geezers Involved in Manipulating the People for greed because, "Past members of the Royal family have been a GIMP".
Our whole political establishment is corrupt and I even put our judicial system in that bracket. Because I don't feel that these corrupt figures in society receive a sentence deserving of their crimes and retain their wealth. While the man on the street receives a sentence and sometimes a financially crippling fine, that they never recover.
Never trust a LabRat, ConArtist or Dimwit.......
Manipulation of the people is right under our noses and hardly recognised, all they want us to remember is; "We are all serfs in the eyes of the wealthy"!......... And believe me. "We have oiks within our council, dancing to the tune of the GIMP's for bonuses, will hiding behind terminological in exactitudes (LIES) in order to survive and protected by the Chief Executive and his committee, who will also respond to letters under the "Freedom of Information Act" with LIES. And this is the reason we have high paid employee's within our society. To allow the GIMP's to carry out their work UNDETECTED......... lol
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