Housing: Pickles speaks out

4:03pm Thursday 10th May 2007

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I am rather puzzled by the letter from Councillor Darren Johnson of the Green Party group on the London Assembly regarding affordable homes.

Yes, there are real and serious problems regarding housing in London and all over the country, but Coun Johnson's solution to the problem is wrong.

The right to buy council housing, introduced by the Conservatives, is a basic fundamental right and I am glad that hundreds of thousands of families now have a stake in the housing market through this scheme.

I presume that Coun Johnson owns his house so what right has he got to deny anybody else just because they currently live in council housing?

It takes a local politician of guts and honesty to put the finger on the correct cause of the housing shortage and I'm about to reveal what everybody knows but not many have the courage to say.

Lack of border controls, record immigration and a continual flood of asylum seekers.

There - now it's been said and before the lefty loonies come out of the closet, no I'm not racist and nor is that statement.

London (and the UK) is bursting at the seams with respective populations of 8million and 60million and it's high time politicians of all persuasions closed the doors once and for all.

Coun Johnson's green credentials also lack credibility.

After all it's hardly green to continually rape what's left of our countryside to build houses for what is a falling indiginous population.

COUN David Pickles Conservative member for Belmont Ward