Daily Archives: October 28, 2010
Lib Dem no to Nuclear power web page vanished along with any cred they ever had.
Energy secretary Chris Huhne, the page has mysteriously vanished from the internets in the last week. Source Political Scrapbook well done lads.
Bit Late Boris your rich chums have allready set the course for what is nothing more than social cleansing.
Mr Johnson, who faces re-election in 2012, told BBC London on Thursday morning that “the last thing we want to have in our city is a situation such as Paris where the less well-off are pushed out to the suburbs”.
“I’ll emphatically resist any attempt to recreate a London where the rich and poor cannot live together,” he said.
HOUSING BENEFIT CAP
- £250 for a one-bedroom property
- £290 for a two-bedroom property
- £340 for a three-bedroom property
- £400 for a four-bedroom property
“We will not see and we will not accept any kind of Kosovo-style social cleansing of London.
“On my watch, you are not going to see thousands of families evicted from the place where they have been living and have put down roots.”
A number of coalition MPs, many representing London constituencies, have concerns about the cap and have called for a rethink on this and other plans such as the 10% proposed cut in housing benefit for people on jobseeker’s allowance for more than a year from 2013 onwards.
Earlier this week Labour’s Chris Bryant talked about people “being socially engineered and sociologically cleansed out of London” – a remark criticised by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as deeply offensive to people who had witnessed ethnic cleansing in other parts of the world.
n, who faces re-election in 2012, told BBC London on Thursday morning that “the last thing we want to have in our city is a situation such as Paris where the less well-off are pushed out to the suburbs”.
“I’ll emphatically resist any attempt to recreate a London where the rich and poor cannot live together,” he said.
