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.