May I begin by quoting a paragraph from an article in this morning's Observer.
"If there is one thing that revolutionary communists and bankers can agree on, it is that there is a housing crisis in Britain. There are too few homes, usually costing too much, often in the wrong places, and often of poor quality. The crisis damages lives, breaks up families, blights employment prospects, reduces mobility and slows the economy".
I have written before that if I was asked to name one measure that typified the arrival of Britain as a civilised society it would be the introduction of council housing. The antithesis of that is that I consider the privatisation of council housing as the start of Britain's descent into barbarism. I have been an implacable opponent of the privatisation of council housing since it was first mooted by Thatcher and her toadies. I spoke out and told people that it would be a disaster, but not only that, I considered it both immoral and economically insane. For years I was teated with contempt and derision. It has turned out to be every bit as bad as I predicted and all our 'experts' are now eating humble pie and admitting that it has been a disaster. Privatising council housing was not, as the so-called experts tell us, an act of freedom, of liberating working people and giving them dignity and a stake in society. It was an act of pure spite and malice born of a hatred of working people, a hatred of collectivism and social altruism. It was also a mechanism in Thatcher's war against trades unions and working people as she calculated that people who now owned their homes and had a mortgage would be much less likely to go on strike. She was correct in that but what these workers were not to know was that this would come back and bite them with a fury. Thatcher was indeed clever, ruthless and cunning, as her natural instinct was to appeal to everything that was base and immoral in human nature. As we now see it worked, but has increasingly destroyed British society, which of course was her intention all along. When she told us that there is no such thing as society she said it for a very good reason, she was intending to dismantle the society she was put in charge of when elected Prime Minister. I genuinely sometimes think that I was the only person listening in those days. The sale of council housing was the first shot in the war that has led to the atomisation of society, the alienation of large sectors of the population, zero-hours contracts, part-time temporary employment, benefit cuts etc.
Thatcher quite deliberately destroyed the concept of a house being a home. From now on it has to be seen as an asset, a financial tool. When she spoke about homeownership she really meant house ownership, a financial asset to be bought and sold, to be traded and used as collateral. Look at the way the Tories are quite prepared to evict people from a home they have lived in for 40 or 50 years and move them to some other location because they have spare rooms? You would never consider moving someone from their family home, you would only do it if you saw that property as exactly that, a property, a house and not a home. These people are barbarians and I will never tire of reminding you all of that. There is a truly critical need to build more housing, but that cannot be left to the private sector who must now be regarded by every sane person as parasites. It must be delegated to public provision. This will not happen under the Westminster domination whose personnel are totally in thrall to what is laughingly called the market. There is no such thing, it is an illusion and a fraud. You have a responsibility at the next election, to your family, your children, your community and the nation. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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