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I have no sympathy with this man but post-war Germany has a history of prosecuting junior and middle rank war criminals while quietly letting the major criminals back into public life. Hans Josef Maria Globke for example was Director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany between 1953 and...

https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/unfair_and_unclear.pdf

It's about the transfer of wealth into profits and rent. I love the utter drivel of right-wingers who believe you incentive working people by making them poorer and the wealthy by making them wealthier.

A government of millionaires ruling for their own kind is very black and white to me and most of the country.

No real surprises - handouts for the wealthy, cuts and falling living standards for the rest of us.

The problem is that there are snags.. One is that Local Authorities unlike most HAs are democratically accountable to their tenants (I appreciate not everyone cares about that). The second is that while there are some very good Housing Associations there are also others that are essentially...

...and what I tried to post earlier. This is the official policy in an inner London Borough including the priority given to local connections.

The system can't cope with the demand but the system has been set up to fail. As you say we need more housing, we also need it to be affordable to the majority of people either in form of purchase or fair rents.

This is a summary of current private rents in London http://www.londonpropertywatch.co.uk/average_rental_prices.html £700 a week could easily go on rent and heating for a small family flat.

This is a good summary of how housing is commonly allocated: file:///C:/Users/Andy/Downloads/rehousing_leaflet_final__2__NO_PRINT_MARKS.pdf With a limited supply clearly it should go to those most in need but the question is based on a false premise. Both Labour and Conservative governments...

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335257/Chapter_4_Demographic_and_attitudinal_characteristics_of_social_renters.pdf What the attached illustrates is that most social tenants (both Council and Housing Associations) are already on low incomes. The...

Would you like to provide some evidence for that or do you just mean that there are people who private landlords could exploit if given the opportunity ?

Some predictably idiotic right-wing drivel on this thread. Council housing is for everyone with allocation based on need, which is precisely why the Tories hate it. The aim is to ensure as much money as possible is diverted into profit and rent rather than disposable income.

I hope the Greeks keep fighting against the attempts to turn them into a nation of paupers. The crisis has a number of starting points but one of the major ones was the supply of cheap credit by German banks seeking to develop export markets for the German economy combined with massive tax...

Neither the UK or Irish Republic are part of the Schengen Agreement, so it's hard to see how anyone signed us into it.

More likely to see Burkas in Mayfair (Gulf Arabs) than Whitechapel (British Bengalis).

PASOK should be a warning to Social Democratic parties. In the UK an overtly anti-austerity party won 50% of the votes cast in Scotland, while an austerity light one struggled to get 31% in the UK.

According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1999 to 2012 Venezuela reduced poverty from 49.4% to 25.6%, the state also provided health clinics and housing subsidies and significantly improved the well being of ordinary citizens. I am not...

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Dan Jarvis yet - not a bad outside bet.

Pretty well IMO - significant increases in the well being of ordinary people and sufficient solidarity to have survived an attempted fascist coup by the usual suspects.