London: Subsidising  poverty or distributing population according to means?

An article published by The Guardian indicates that those do not own accommodation are given the option to relocate to other parts of the country where rental prices are lower or to become homeless.

The article refers to millions of Pound being paid to private companies to help relocate families away from  London, from Birmingham and from other local authorities  to regions where there is cheaper accommodation.

When the realities of the rental accommodation market bite, local authorities cannot afford to subsidise  housing and therefore recur to the nearest best thing which is to relocate families to areas where housing is affordable.

Local authorities have been spending much of their budgets to support households that are not making enough money to be able to afford the costs of housing and this is literally breaking the bank. Birmingham has been reportedly cutting down vital services and increasing taxation to maintain an unsustainable situation.

Personally, I do not own a flat in Central London and there might be a reason for that. Some areas of Central London have some of the most expensive rented accommodation in the country as a whole. I could unjustifiably claim that I am entitled to receive monies from taxes to pay for such rented accommodation. Or I could decide that since I cannot afford such rented accommodation I would try and find suitable accommodation elsewhere.

Whether you are white, black, Asian or whatever else, the fact remains that you cannot afford to stay in a certain area and you have to find an adequate residence somewhere else. Unfortunately, those who make the argument in favour of subsidies practically always use the race card as if being of a member of a certain ethnic group was some sort of green card  to have access or a certificate of entitlement. There is no such entitlement. 

Another argument is that when a certain area of the country is considered 'rundown', those people elect to represent them have a role to play to ensure that any 'rundown area' is not a 'rundown area' for long. Lack of economic activity is very much one of the root causes. Economic activity combined with proper infrastructure and services standards that change things for the better. Subsidising poverty is never the answer. Subsidising poverty makes poverty endemic because we are just dealing with the symptoms. We are not dealing with the causes.

Emergency accommodation is not meant to be permanent accommodation. Using the race card to justify the unjustifiable is step in the wrong direction. If I can create 100,000 housings units outside the big cities, then the idea would be to create functioning communities with acceptable standards in terms of services and infrastructure outside the big cities where prices will naturally be more affordable. 

Birmingham and Slough are clear examples of how unfit the Labour Party is for government.

Slough bankrupt. Birmingham bankrupt. Liverpool under special measures. This is what the Labour Party has done in government. Corruption, mismanagement, misuse of public funds, and unpayable taxes including Council Tax and now with the addition of ULEZ and parking permits. 

Keir Starmer and the Labour Party Cabinet can claim that they have solutions that they clearly do not have. When asked on the streets, the inhabitants of Birmingham are talking about leaving Birmingham and such is the level of disarray.

As if this wasn't enough, extraordinarily high number of migrants including illegal migrants, are loading local authorities, regional authorities and government with spiralling levels of indebtedness. People who arrive in the country without any documentation and without even knowing the language of the country and practically no skills are occupring local facilities and turning local communities into a living hell. 

Local inhabitants are taking to the streets but those who are supposed to represent them are not listening. Based on ideological stances, elected representatives care more about illegal migrants than they care about those who got them elected.  

UK Birmingham City Council bankrupt, but more local authorities to follow. Is Sadiq Khan trying to curb deficits using ULEZ and parking permits?

Birmingham City Council has gone bankrupt, but many other local authorities are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Has the expansion of ULEZ and parking space permits a lot to do with plugging London's finances and very little to do with the environment.

Putting up Council Tax is a very unpopular decision in Labour Party dominated London. Most importantly because evasion of payments of Council Tax is going up and local authorities know that putting up Council Tax payments in London means that less people will pay Council Tax. Like other local authorities across the land, London Authorities are desperate for money and running out of time to pay debts before services delivered by local authorities are compromised.

Getting closer to an election year, Sadiq Khan has been campaigned very hard for the extension of ULEZ and for the imposition of parking permits (Council Tax under another name) with the excuse of protecting the environment as a way to make people forget that it is actually a rise of Council Tax.

Local business are being starved of funds. It was not enough with having to pay extortionate business rates, insurance, maintenance payments and rental agreements in a economy that underwent lockdown measures with nefarious consequences. During the imposition of lockdown measures, small businesses across not just London, but across the land closed their doors. Income tax is a tax based on real income. All other expenses have little to do with what a business can actually make. Most other taxes are taxes that have to be paid regardless of how much a business makes and the smaller ones suffered the brunt. But big companies were not untouched. Some managed to cope and others are now showing signs that it is game  over for them. Some are being acquired and rebranded, but in any case jobs losses are unavoidable.

In some cases, businesses are collapsing because of ULEZ, parking permits, and traffic changes that push customers away. Overnight, a local business might be closing its doors because the aforementioned - ULEZ, parking permits, and traffic changes - have literally left them without enough customers to pay taxes and other bills.

If businesses big and small go down, the expansion of ULEZ and parking permits and traffic changes are going to deliver a Pyhrric Victory for local authorities and the state treasury. If businesses go down, tax receipts go down. If businesses go down, unemployment goes up and the Welfare budget that includes payments for unemployment will go up.

Instead of helping businesses recover from years of lockdown, local authorities will bankrupt themselves by bankrupting businesses that support the local economy that produce the income that local authorities very much need.

  

 

Liam Byrne: Constantly fuelling hatred will lead to mass killings in Britain

Liam Byrne MP

What Liam Byrne MP and others do not seem to realise is that their campaign of hatred against US President Donald Trump constitutes incitement that could certainly lead to mass killings in Britain.

Some people like and some people don't like the elected President of the USA as people like or don't like elected politicians in the United Kingdom. This is no excuse to incite the masses in what has become a hate campaign.

The Labour MP should be aware of the tension that he and others are creating and of the consequences of such tensions. We had riots in the United Kingdon, including the Brixton riots and the Tottenham riots that spread across the country. Is the Labour MP aware of the potential of pack mentality taking over the streets of Britain? If tempers flare and people get killed, he and others involved in such hate campaign will have blood in their hands.

We don't need any more incitement. We don't need any more propaganda. Hasn't the political establishment learnt any lessons after the attack against Jo Cox? Even the more peaceful of demonstrations can lead to murder. 

This is a time to cool down. This is a time to prevent violence because violence will occur when people led to the streets engage in pack behaviour fuelled by politicians like Liam Byrne.