There were some neutral observers who felt uneasy about the size of the surcharge, given that she had been given legal advice that the policy of council-house sales was lawful. And apologists for the policy liked to point out that homes-for-votes was a mirror image of what Labour councillors up and own the country had been doing when they built the Labour-voting “council ghettoes” in the first place.
It was gerrymandering but everyone has done it and does do it.
Great admirer of Dame Shirley although I have to admit she struck me as a spectacularly unpleasant person.
It was a Blair rigged Supreme Court that caught her in the end. By then she had legged it to Israel.
Private Eye had a lot to do with her persecution.
That little creep Hislop – loather of Brexit and ‘Spoons – ruined Private Eye.
Was it ever any good?
Her real crime was being better at Gerrymandering than the left.
Wasn’t her crime, in their eyes, that her gerrymandering involved less government, not more?
The Labour Party used to boost about their council house gerrymandering. But not about some of the detail – houses reserved for Labour activists, houses available only to wifies who went to bed with Councillor Murphy, and so on.
‘houses reserved for Labour activists’
Yeah, ‘key workers’ as Gordon Brown described them.
You forgot council flats for Labour MPs and Trade Union leaders on £60k a year (equivalent to well over £100k in current money).
“in which there was undoubtedly a strong element of old-fashioned anti-Semitism”
As I’ve pointed out before, much of what is seen as “racism” in British society is not racisim, it’s classism. She’s from *TRADE*!
The housing “market” is multi tiered.
Illegal migrant? Here’s free accommodation.
Got three kids and no job? Have a council flat.
“Key” worker? “Affordable” housing.
The rest of us? Mortgaged up the wazoo, or paying 40% of net wages on rent.
No wonder housebuilding, especially in London, has collapsed.