As a lifelong Labour supporter, my Dad before me . his Dad and his Dad before that.To suggest that council tenancies are no longer secure is definately the final straw. What do others think?
2007-02-19 00:36:19 · 6 answers · asked by andrew j 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I am a council tenant and am p****d off with this attempt to turf out even more of us onto the street. I don't have the money for a mortgage (and wouldn't want to get one). It just shows that Labour's plans for even more ALMOs (Arms Length Management Organisations) to replace council tenancies are destroying the security of tenancies.
Here where I live our authority was taken over by an ALMO in 2003. 87% voted yes, as they were taken in by the company's glossy brochure and the promise of new kitchens and new windows. I'm still waiting for my new kitchen (scheduled for next year, but I'm not holding my breath). Several rent payment offices have closed. I can't report to my local office to request a repair or enquire about council tax any more - I now have to go to the civic centre or phone.
Yet it's another rule for Kelly and co., along with Blair buying his fifth house earlier this year. And how dare other people come on here and slag off council tenants as being mostly asylum seekers or single teenage mums! Sitting in their ivory towers! Council tenants got the flats because they deserved it, regardless of status. A points system works in most local authorities.
Anyway, I hope people will oppose this. Thanks for listening - hope I didn't go on too much. The link I've posted is in favour of council housing and against ALMOs.
2007-02-19 08:03:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Labour is not the Labour your parents supported - they haven't been for nearly 10 years!
Nothing is secure in this life anymore - it is just a fact of life we all have to deal with. Remember your parents having jobs for lives? Well they don't exist anymore! Council tenancies - I'm not sure you will get too much sympathy on the tenancies changing - all those that rent privately are in the same boat, and those that are buying are only as secure as long as they can keep up their rising interest payments on the mortgage. So life is just that way now - nobody has real security at all.
2007-02-19 04:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by Boo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I too voted Labour in to Government in 1997, but they had broken so many promises that they didn't get my vote at the last election. In 1997, Blair said publicly that he wouldn't raise taxes, he would be tough on crime, and he would reform the NHS. All we have had is increased taxes in every form with more in the pipeline. The level of street crime is at it's highest despite Tony telling us it is falling, and the NHS is a shambles. The Labour party has wasted more taxpayers money than any Government before. They have succeeded in making us the minority in our own country, and giving the immigrants more care than the people of this country. They have by these methods cause more bad feeling against the immigrants and asylum seekers than any one else. They are the creators of racism in this country. My vote in the next election is going to the BNP, who may be able to restore some sanity back into Britain.
2007-02-19 01:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You and all your family before you have supported Labour all their lives and you still can't see them for what they are can you!
Then you come on here and moan about the policies they make - you voted them in - you take the crap and lump it!
2007-02-19 00:41:40 · answer #4 · answered by jamand 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Labour is a rubbish party and i have never supported them. They are trying to make everyone worse off tax tax and more tax. I hope u are finally opening your eyes.
2007-02-19 01:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by Minnie Me 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't matter to her - she'll just go private like every other Labour hypocrite.
They just think 'Do as I say, not as I do'
2007-02-19 01:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋