Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Decent Homes Standard = Bullshit

Haringey Council Talks Shite - Appeals to Tennants Selfishness | 26.08.2004 13:03

Haringey Council follows the Government / IMF line of bullshitting to aid structural adjustment. Tennants are offered new identical formica kitchens in exchange for letting the government flog off the last of council housing. I ask tennants - How cheap are you? Wouls some new windows and some new crappy kitchen bits and pieces ( or the remote chance of maybe somewhere bigger, you sucker?) persuade you to let them sell off something that is not theirs or yours to sell.

Another piece of propaganda paid for by us to bullshit us landed on my doormat this morning.
Ostensibly a newsletter regarding repairs, it was actaully a thinly veiled piece of propaganda on behalf of the WTO/IMF and its neooliberal G8 supporters telling me most of our council houses are shite.

They call this the 'Decent Homes Standard'.

Perhaps the government and the surveying company ( who are also international corporate estate agents and whose profits have doubled since taking on this work on behalf of the government) F D Saville should check out those private B and B shitholes that they are so fond of putting people in at exhorbitant rents.

A slight draft, a creaky door, dripping tap - hang on... That doesn't exactly sound like shanty town territory, but then this is what the government and its council lackeys ( who contain many property developers and people with partisan interests ) are trying to infer.


Transfer to a housing association? What like West Hampstead Housaing association as a typical one thast went bust and had it's shareholders bailed out to the tune of £2 million by camden council, those jackal-like fuckers that did everything in their power to turn Camden into a police state and close down all community saupport cnetres. Thank you Dame Jane, I hope one day you face the guillotine along with Blair, Wolfhenson, Chaney and co.
Check issues of Inside Housing and you will see how CORRUPT Housing Associations are, though they don't giove you the full picture.

Another aspect of privatisation of council services - repairs are done by ( nudge nudge wink wink )outside contract and the costs have spiralled ( repair people don't turn up, charge double, don't do the jobs as they are relaly on other ones and still charge top ( ofeten double )rates etc etc.likewise using agency staff. check out Haringey's sky-high bill for that one. Corruption soars e.g. the recent convictions of Haringey council and particularly housing staff. Some staff want to leave with the councils assets so they can get in the position of more power and more wages.

They are offeing you higher rents, less security ( 1 or 2 stage privatisation) and for themselves and their buddies ( property developers, surveyors, estate agents,builders ) a nice litter earner.

I could go on as there is so much more and the proof is there.

Structural adjustment? Destroy The WTO.
Fuck the petit bourgoise scum and middle class scum who seek and side with state power as if it were a form of school bully.

God, England where are your fucking guts you nation of soft underbellied consumers.



Haringey Council Talks Shite - Appeals to Tennants Selfishness

Comments

Display the following 2 comments

  1. Give me concrete — Double Dog
  2. Good Place to Start? — Eric B
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech