Housing is the central nib of Labour’s battle against the Green Party in the upcoming local elections. Both sides think they have gains to make targeting the issue…
Zack Polanski has trailed comments for his local election campaign launch today in London:
“Look at how Labour councils treat their own tenants… One of Keir Starmer’s flagship pledges was to end the use of cruel and unfair Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions. But while he dithered and delayed, Labour’s own councils were using legal loopholes to kick out council tenants using Section 21. Families left traumatised by the fear of living in temporary accommodation. Bailiffs turning up at the door to turf people out. Under a Labour council — while their government proudly proclaimed themselves the party of renters. Shameful.”
The Greens are set to offer rent controls and various measures against ‘commercial housebuilders’ as part of their local offer. Correct – the left has zero new ideas of any kind…
Number crunchers at Labour HQ have meanwhile put out overnight analysis claiming that “the Greens have attempted to block at least 42,000 homes from being built across the country, including at least 13,000 affordable homes, since 2018.“ This is central to the Greens’ longtime strategy to propose radical policy in Westminster and act like ‘nice’ Green Tories in the shires – Polanski’s efforts may blow that one up…
Guido has long tracked the Greens’ rabid NIMBY campaigning. They even opposed a solar farm…
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”