ConDem social cleansing

John Cruddas, Labour, Dagenham: "It [the ConDem proposed changes to housing benefit] is an exercise in social and economic cleansing ..... families will be thrown into turmoil, with children having to move school and those in work having to travel long distances to their jobs. It is tantamount to cleansing the poor out of rich areas – a brutal and shocking piece of social engineering."

Ralph Miliband

A good article on Ralph Miliband from last week's Guardian.

Class war steps up a further notch

How can anyone now doubt that this is the most ideological, most vicious government in living memory? So wedded is the Cameron-led Conservative Party to the market and to hammering working people that they are now threatening to end 'council houses for life.'

Today's attack on of social housing can only make life more insecure for those living in council houses. Britain needs more social housing, not less. The government's move only helps its allies in the private rental sector and seems designed to create a more flexible - for which read exploitable - labour force.

Strange feelings of pride....

As an internationalist, national pride is not something that come easily, indeed, I'm not sure that was exactly the feeling when I came across this but hey.....