The Scottish National Party supported by Labour on WDC voted yesterday against the ongoing progressive work being undertaken by the community based Cordale Housing Association in Renton. CHA sought to buy land from WDC to facilitate their continuing programme of building quality rented homes for those people who have been languishing for years on housing waiting lists and are in dire need of socially rented accommodation. There is over 3,000 such families in West Dunbartonshire.
The sale of this land would have netted the financially strapped Council around £1.3m. This much needed money could have been spent on socially useful projects which currently cannot be funded by WDC because of the shortage of cash.
The SNP's decision to vote against these proposals can only be described as petty and perverse.
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Taken from the SNP web site...
"It's time to keep healthcare local
The "SNP" will protect vital local health services, give the public a "say" in decisions on the future of local hospitals and do "more" to give young Scots the healthiest start in life."
Goes to show the GREAT gulf between socialists and the SNP if they were like us the above would have said this...
It's time to keep healthcare local
The "socialist" will protect vital local health services, give the public "the" decisions on the future of local hospitals and do "everything" to give young Scots the healthiest start in life.
It shows the mindset of the SNP and what is to come.
You just know that you are on a loser with the SNP.
The South pole...
A recent survey a few years ago of the potential of mineral and oil wealth was carried out at the South pole.Details of this report as far as I know were never published maybe because of sensitive information?.I did read that the USA were none to please at the report on there sector?but British officials had a big smile on there faces on the reports findings on there sector?.I wonder how all this will be sorted out when Scotland goes independent.We could be talking off HUGH amounts of wealth?.I know that some big names in the financial world have been seen boarding planes in Tierra del Fuego to fly over the South pole.As climate change has taken place it has become MUCH more habital,many parts now have no snow or ice for miles.
Something very strange here...
If the SNP were to hold a referendum on independence very soon after winning control of the Scottish Parliament they would have to deal with a Scottish Prime Minister?.Very good chance of getting a fair deal for Scotland?.
If they wait until the end of their Reign of Terror to hold a referendum they could well end up trying to deal with an English Tory Prime Minister.They would be VERY lucky to come out of such a meeting not having to pay a hugh sum in compansation to England for breaking up the union on the grounds it would have a detrimental effect on England.
So what has Scotland got to negotiate about? well there could well be untold wealth under the British sector at the South pole oil/mineral wealth for one thing.
The SNP must know about all this so the question is WHY??? just doesn`t add up.
Report backs end to secure council tenancies
Matt Weaver
Tuesday February 20, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Council tenants could be forced to prove they still need their homes in regular means-tested reviews, it emerged today.
The proposal, part of a radical shake-up of housing outlined in a government-commissioned report, would end the right to a home for life by giving people fixed-term tenancies of between one and five years.
Under the plan - which the document admits could "sound outlandish", tenants would be forced to pay more for their home be asked to buy a stake in the value of the property if their circumstances improved.
If children left home, their parents would be forced to move to smaller properties.
The report, written for the government by Professor John Hills, of the London School of Economics, says such system would help free up homes to those who most need them.
"The ability to move 'empty nest' couples or single people might be a way of reducing overcrowding," it says.
It concedes that the possible loss of a secure tenancy would be "controversial", but adds that such a move could be needed in order to "make better use of very scarce and pressured resources".
The communities secretary, Ruth Kelly, who commissioned the report, wrote in a foreword that it was "not the last word" on issues but would open up debate.
"We have got no plans to change existing tenancy rights," a spokeswoman for her department added.
The document also examines ways of breaking up large sink estates, which it says have become concentrations of poverty.
In recommendations likely to be more acceptable to ministers, it suggests that council and housing association homes should be sold off to higher income groups or let out at market rents as they become vacant in order to create more economically mixed areas.
Cash raised from the scheme would be used to build replacement affordable homes elsewhere, it said.
Ms Kelly has in the past backed the idea of more "mixed communities".
The report recommends that the various right to buy schemes should be simplified into a single system that applies to both council and housing association tenants.
It says such a move would be likely to involve less generous discounts than those currently available to council tenants, but would give all social tenants a right to buy at least a share in the value of their homes.
The group Defend Council Housing, which campaigns for direct investment in council-run housing, reacted to the report with alarm.
"The government cannot create sustainable communities if they force tenants to move on and out against their will by imposing a time limit or introducing a means test on their tenancy," it said.
"It would turn our estates into massive hostels with a transient, not sustainable, community."
The Liberal Democrat housing spokesman, Dan Rogerson, said: "Forcing people out of their homes won't solve the crisis in social housing, but it will divide neighbourhoods. Our housing estates need a mix of backgrounds and incomes if we're to build and preserve genuine communities."
Mr Rogerson criticised Labour for its "failure to build enough social houses", which he said had "left a legacy of long waiting lists which are at the root of this problem".
Sarah Webb, the deputy chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, said sink estates were the "concentrated areas of deprivation that we really need to tackle".
Jim when you deal with the SNP think of them as NEW Labour for that is what they really are and I am NOT joking.
Taken from the respect web site...
Labour 'MP hopeful' quits race to join Galloway's Respect Party
"Labour has been hijacked by a bunch of ultra-conservatives. It's bad for democracy."
EASTLONDONADVERTISER - Thu, 05 Apr 2007
A WOMAN in the race to be Labour's next candidate to take on rebel MP George Galloway's Respect Party in London's East End has quit the selection process and changed sides.
Johanna Kaschke has defected to Respect after reading the East London Advertiser's March 28 edition about the Labour Government trying to change the law to defeat a campaigner in the High Court over public housing.
She went straight to her computer and fired off a resignation letter to Labour, then joined Galloway's party.
"I find there is a bad atmosphere in the (Labour) party, driving out council tenants and disrespecting leaseholders alike.
"It is totally disgusting that the Labour Party acts against its own members, dismantles the National Health Service, a tendency to stop free health treatment.
"Our local authority has become an oppressive force, forcing residents out of their dwellings by making it too expensive for leaseholders to afford the upkeep or forcing tenants to be with private housing associations.
"The Labour Party has become an oppressive organisation, nothing more to do with the democratic people's party it once used to be."
It is a blow to the bitterly-divided local Labour party, whose morale sank in Galloway's Bethnal Green constituency after he ousted their MP Oona King in the 2005 General Election.
Joanna told the Advertiser: "Labour has been hijacked by a bunch of ultra-conservatives. It's bad for democracy."
From www.SpideredNews.com
This booklet, published in 1899/2007, condemns the unsanitary and unhealthy housing conditions in which the majority of Glasgow's labouring classes were forced to live at this time.
The author, the chief sanitary inspector for Glasgow, argues that greater use be made of housing acts to force private developers and building companies to construct superior housing for the working classes with better sanitation and more spacious living conditions, and housing with rental charges that took into account the ability of the working classes to pay.
The publication of these findings were seized upon by the Independent Labour Party to highlight the exploitation of the poorest sections of society by unscrupulous landlords and to demand government action to ensure the provision of better-quality housing for the working classes.
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Found this Jim on the SSY web site you may know about it but just in case...
Copy and paste into address bar.
http://www.fightforourhomes.com/
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