The Rotten Boroughs section in the current issue of Private Eye (no 1217) has set aside seven paragraphs to expose how H&F’s Conservative Councillors have cut back the affordable housing element of another property scheme.This is not the first time that our local Tory Councillors have appeared in Rotten Boroughs. This time last year Private Eye told how H&F Tories voted themselves an 18% pay hike and gave a fellow Conservative Councillor, on the adoptions panel, the equivalent of a 75% pay rise and all at the same time that they also voted over £30million of "savage cuts" to crime fighting, local schools, the elderly, the disabled, youth facilities, street cleaning, refuse collection, the garden waste scheme and the borough's environmental services.
The sad thing about the details uncovered in the current Private Eye story is that there are 9200 local families on the housing waiting list in Hammersmith and Fulham and many more residents looking to get an affordable home to rent or buy. All will be bitterly disappointed at this cut back in available affordable homes. However, with H&F Conservatives halting the affordable housing aspect of all major developments; looking to demolish affordable homes across the borough and flying to the south of France to meet major firms to try and sell off “contentious property developments”; then the Private Eye story is just the thin end of the wedge.
4 comments:
They should have been in Rotten Boroughs for ending the council's funding to the Hammersmith Broadway police team. They told us it was time for zero tolerance before the election then cut funding to our police team immediately after it.
Now that's a Private Eye story just waiting to be published.
I hope their parents are proud.
Seems like Rotten to the core: http://www.hammersmithtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=community&link=http://nnet-server.com/server/common/hfcoun037.htm
Bob
Hammersmith and Fulham a rotten borough? The Conservatives promised not to introduce home charges for disabled and aged residents one month before the election in April 2006. Then they started consulting on introducing a £12.40 hourly charge to those same residents five months later in September 2006. They’ve now introduced that charge and have also removed all home care from over one thousand, four hundred aged, disabled and infirm local people.
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