This video from Britain says about itself:
Social Cleansing – London’s poorest forced out of the capital
30 April 2015
Around 50,000 families have been forced to move out of their boroughs because of rocketing rents, a shortage of affordable housing and benefit changes.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Injustice is rife in Tory Britain
Thursday 3rd August 2017
KENSINGTON and Chelsea’s authorisation of demolition and replacement of the once council-run but now closed Thamesbrook care home by a private facility confirms the Tory council’s social cleansing programme.
Instead of local NHS hospitals recommending elderly patients for care on the basis of need, the key in future will be an ability to pay £2.5 million to lease a luxury apartment and access private nursing.
The council has kept Thamesbrook empty for three years, awaiting the opportunity to sell off its prime site to a South African property development company.
It is engaged in a programme to run down, close and sell for redevelopment as much public property as possible to drive out poor working-class people and create an island of prosperity in inner London.
Barely a week passes without revelations about the scandalous treatment of Grenfell Tower residents by the council or its arm’s length tenants management organisation.
From penny-pinching on repairs to disregard or peremptory dismissal of complaints, Grenfell tenants’ abuse by those in authority epitomised the attitudes of an arrogant ruling clique.
Axing a public care home catering for poor people for its social opposite mirrors the Tory council’s public bad, private good attitude.
Its plan to close North Kensington library and lease its impressive listed building to the private Notting Hill Preparatory School — term fees £6,100 per child — is currently on hold in the wake of the Grenfell Tower inferno and growing local anger over council indifference to poor communities.
Whether it proceeds or is abandoned depends largely on the scale of public protest over this latest manifestation of Divided Britain.
Tories are past masters at putting their hands up when caught bang to rights, spouting soothing words and setting up inquiries from which “lessons must be learned” before watering down or ignoring recommendations and, when the dust settles, carrying on largely as before.
Kensington and Chelsea is a microcosm of a capital city in which it is increasingly hard for local working-class people to afford to buy a home while property speculators market housing as investments or safe bolt holes for oligarchs and corporate crooks across the globe.
A neoliberal-inspired assault on the very concept of council housing for affordable rent over nearly 40 years by governments of all stripes has fuelled price inflation in the private housing sector and widened the wealth gap.
Margaret Thatcher’s deregulation of financial markets — the so-called Big Bang — in 1986 ushered in US-style get-rich-quick spivvery, rapid inflation of City rewards and an air of entitlement that disregarded the rest of society.
Establishment media commentators repeat endlessly the neoliberal mantra that the spending deficit means that “we all” have to tighten our belts.
That means benefit cuts, a 1 per cent public-sector maximum pay rise, enforced zero-hours contracts, bogus self-employment and reduced pension entitlements while property owners’ wealth escalates, private-sector rents rise inexorably, shareholder dividends are unchecked and boardroom bonuses and golden handshakes are astronomical.
The upshot is, as the High Pay Centre and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reveals, chief executives pull down an annual salary 160 times that of the average worker.
While the gulf in incomes and wealth has widened, the neoliberal tide has eroded the social wage that made life bearable.
Stronger trade union organisation and a radical Labour replacement for the Tory government are essential to tackle the injustices embedded in Divided Britain.
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You make so many good points in your article however where do we go from here I have to ask we live in a “democracy “where whoever is elected is on the same agenda regarding social cleansing on the good cop bad cop basis labour are supposed to represent the working class and the underdog the good cop if you like and the Torries supported the wealthy and busineses the bad cop if you like and if you want to include them the liberals who nobody ever votes for but will readilly join either side to get a bit of glory now my point being if you take recent politics since thatcher years I give you three candidates Tory sorry I mean Tony Blair , David Cameron, Nick clegg if you really look at it these are the same person same keep it like it is politicians all born with the silver spoon in the mouth manufactured university educated politicians with £2 million London Town houses all part of the same gold star House of Parliament club with all its benefits . Blair the labour working people’s champion was every bit as bad as any conservative pm achieving much by stealth , allowing the theft of many public owned land and property to be sold off by various asset strippers to build houses and apartments etc for their wealthy elite vision across the entirety of london , one final piece of food for thought the great “Olympic legacy” a huge mass of land used for two weeks for the 2012 event largely funded by the tax payer you would have thought that they could have solved the social housing crisis in one fair swoop (yeh I know I’m having a laugh ) but if you go there you will understand what the Olympic legacy is really about, lots and lots of new expensive apartments absolutely everywhere very little to none social housing and it was the same thing with the millennium dome site taxpayer funded but if you go there much the same story as the Olympic site , so I conclude no good cop no bad cop just same cop and as long as the working class remains divided along the lines of race , sex , religion we play their game and nothing will ever change , divide and conquer is one of the oldest tactics known to mankind and it’s a tactic used the world over today
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Hi, you are right that under Blair the Labour party were basically Thatcherite Conservative-lite. Under Brown there was one baby step to the left, under Ed Miliband one more baby step to the left. Very obviously, not enough.
However, unexpectedly, hundreds of thousands new members joined Labour to elect Corbyn and re-elect him after a Blairite coup attempt. Just a new party leader is not enough, as there are still many Blairite MPs, party bureaucrats etc. In Haringey in London there is a mostly Blairite local council practising Tory-like social cleansing. However, the local members are deselecting most of these Blairite councillors to stop the privatising and social cleansing:
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-62e8-Four-more-Haringey-councillors-step-down-as-local-fight-to-stop-housing-sell-off-pays-off-for-Momentum#.Wi0GlrCDMdU
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