Disgusted of Edinburgh writes.

[andrewducker]

If you want to know why I wouldn't vote Conservative if you paid me, this is why.

Comments

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

Word!

The people who refused the lady emergency housing should be severely disciplined; I'm shocked the LGO didn't do more. A clear and deliberate breach of the law.

[andlosers.livejournal.com]

I had to reread this, because on the first pass I misread the introductory paragraph and genuinely thought it was a work of dystopian near-future speculative fiction. But no, it's real.

You would have to be nuts to vote Tory. End of.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

You would have to be nuts to vote Tory. End of.

Or rich.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Opening today's paper and reading that was a bit of a downer first thing in the morning.

Johann Hari is awesome.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That article really horrified me.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I do wonder just how hard/easy it would be to find, say, a Labour council following much the same strategies? Has anyone looked? It could be a general evil, not a party-specific one. Not saying it is or is not, just wondering.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

Probably be hard pushed to find a Labour council that was quite this keen on polo, tho ... ;-)

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Supposing you were paid enough to put right all the wrongs in this local authority ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I worked in Westminster during the Lady Porter years. The Tories do not change.

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

The point of a secret ballot is that you can't be paid to vote conservative, or labour, or monster raving looney because you can't provide a receipt to the paymaster to prove you did so.

Moving to the article in question, Shelter list them as 211th out of 323 councils.

http://housingleaguetable.org.uk/Hammersmith_and_Fulham

Noticeably higher up than my libdem council in Cambridge (242nd).

I'd note that Shelter are not a notorious bunch of Tory stooges.


The argument from the other side is here,

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2009/02/how-and-why-ham.html

Which leads us to learn that, they cut council tax (which disproportionately benefits the poor as the Lib Dems will tell you ad inifinitum), they increased the schools, parks and policing budgets, they've cut the councils debt. All of these are not obviously bad results. Of course there's no mention of if the increased funding improved the situation.

http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/boroughs/fh_month%20-%20mps.htm

Leads us to believe that the crime rate in the area is falling (although possibly not statistically significantly).


So it's obvious Johann is being very selective in his reporting to try and persuade you to vote not Tory. What I can't evaluate is how selective he's being.

[andrewducker]

Cheers for the info.

[ayia.livejournal.com]

I wonder why there arent more articles like this.. I mean; I have actually been looking for evidence to prove (to myself) how bad the Conservatives are and evidence is not easy to come by online for some reason.