Category: Parliamentary Politics

ASH has been told a lot recently – by people we know and by people we’ve never met – that ‘Now is not the time to be criticising the Labour Party!’  When is it ever in the eyes of Labour supporters? But the particular argument for not doing so now – as it is every … Continue reading Vote Labour? The Aims and Values of Estate Demolition

This is Helen Hayes, until Parliament was dissolved the Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, speaking (you can listen to her here) against the Conservative government’s Housing and Planning Bill at a march organised by Lambeth Housing Activists on 30 January, 2016. Nice, isn’t she? Well, take a closer look. Before being elected a … Continue reading A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Helen Hayes

This is Helen Hayes, until Parliament was dissolved the Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, speaking (you can listen to her here) against the Conservative government’s Housing and Planning Bill at a march organised by Lambeth Housing Activists on 30 January, 2016. Nice, isn’t she? Well, take a closer look. Before being elected a … Continue reading A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . .

The widely held view that the result of the coming general election is a foregone conclusion has really brought out the desperation in the so-called radical left. We’ll leave aside the dreamers who have supported Jeremy Corbyn through his 18 months of indecision, inactivity and failure; but even those who have opposed Labour on everything … Continue reading Electoral Defeatism

Chapter I And Peter remembered the words of Jesus, who said unto him: ‘Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.’ And he went out, and wept bitterly. – Matthew, 26: 75 On 28 September, at the Labour Party Conference 2016, Jeremy Corbyn, the twice elected and now undisputed Leader of the Labour Party, declared to his audience … Continue reading Stand Up To Labour: The Denials of Momentum

We’ve been compiling these statistics over the past two years and longer, and we try to keep them updated as often as possible as things grow rapidly worse; but any corrections will be investigated, and any new additions that can be substantiated are welcome. The conclusions we draw from them are our own, but will … Continue reading Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Inequality, Housing, Renting, Evictions, Homelessness and House Prices

22 June DEMOCRACY Is there something important happening tomorrow? Everyone seems to be getting very upset about which group of bureaucrats they want to rule over us. The point, I seem to remember Marx saying, is to change the world, not choose your preferred master. The servility of the people dressed up in their democratic … Continue reading Brexit Diary

On Tuesday 3 May, Brandon Lewis, the Minister for Housing and Planning responsible for driving the Government’s Housing and Planning Bill through Parliament, rejected 12 of the 13 amendments proposed by the House of Lords. Financial privilege, a convention that deters peers from voting against the Government’s Budget, was invoked in six of the amendments … Continue reading And Then There Were None: The Housing and Planning Bill

Sunday’s demonstration, which was organised by the Kill the Housing Bill campaign, began in Lincoln’s Inn Fields – as was reported in the Evening Standard – with Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, telling us she is opposed to the Housing Bill, and ended outside Parliament – as reported in the Independent – with James … Continue reading No Platform For Labour Lies

Homes for Londoners 1. The Labour mayoral candidate’s promise to double the number of homes built in London to 50,000 a year is part of an offer, which was made to the Government by the London Housing Commission this week, in return for greater mayoral powers to force local authorities to make more public land … Continue reading A Manifesto For All Londoners? Sadiq Khan’s Promises on Housing