tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post8704475921698629285..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: House Points: Lose your job, lose your council houseJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-73384031125142545592008-02-10T16:46:00.000+00:002008-02-10T16:46:00.000+00:00I was a civil servant. I recall working on various...I was a civil servant. I recall working on various Labour and Tory policy iniciatives to help the unemployed to get work by first enabling them to find somewhere decent to live. New Labour certainly turns old ideas upside down.<BR/><BR/>One of the reasons why these inciatives made little progress was that the actual landlords of social housing were bodies such as Harborough District Council and Housing Associations, not Whitehall. Council and Housing Association priorities were and are helping families who really need help. I rely on Harborough DC and its doughty colleagues to stop Caroline Flint turning families into the street; and to prevent us going back to the worst of 19th. Century practice of throwing out tenants who offend against the master's or the mistress's predjudices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com