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Here is the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOV3i6TolJU&feature=youtu.be
The launch started at 2:30PM Today, Monday, 16 December 2019.
Agenda of the Launch
2.30 p.m.
Welcome - Jennifer Nadel of Compassion in Politics
Welcome - Jennifer Nadel of Compassion in Politics
2.35 p.m.
Why launch this Bill? - Rev Paul Nicolson
Why launch this Bill? - Rev Paul Nicolson
2.55 p.m.
“Housing and inequality in the UK - Inequality street" - Daniel Tomlinson, Resolution Foundation [The data referred to by Daniel is available via https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/inequality-street
]
“Housing and inequality in the UK - Inequality street" - Daniel Tomlinson, Resolution Foundation [The data referred to by Daniel is available via https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/inequality-street
]
3.15 p.m.
"The impacts of demolishing council estates and why we need more council homes" -Professor Loretta Lees [A major focus here is how London's 'out of borough placements' translated as gentrification' and loss to those displaced and thus alienated. In some cases this amounts to 'genocide', she says. Precariousness -- living on a prayer -- is rife as a cumulative result of right wing government policies. ]
"The impacts of demolishing council estates and why we need more council homes" -Professor Loretta Lees [A major focus here is how London's 'out of borough placements' translated as gentrification' and loss to those displaced and thus alienated. In some cases this amounts to 'genocide', she says. Precariousness -- living on a prayer -- is rife as a cumulative result of right wing government policies. ]
3.35 p.m.
"The Social Housing, Affordable Rent and Elimination of Homelessness Bill" - Ian Wise QC
"The Social Housing, Affordable Rent and Elimination of Homelessness Bill" - Ian Wise QC
[Ian outlines the obligations his Bill places on local authorities to monitor housing issues in their area, and also the corresponding obligations placed upon the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government that are legally binding and enforceable.]
3.55 p.m.
Response from Councillor Zena Brabazon, Deputy Leader Haringey Council. Labour Party. [Zena was elected to Haringey Council in 2018 after campaigning actively against the Haringey Development Vehicle that Paul Nicolson was campaigning against. Through her campaigning she also met Prof Loretta Lees. Council housing policy has since been informed by inputs from Zacchaeus 2000 Trust, Child Poverty Action Group and other organisations. As a ward councillor she has also been informed by contact with ward constituents and her work as a school governor in recognising the extent of child poverty. She also acknowledges the life foundation given her by a caring state -- "not a nanny state: just a decent state."
She also thanked Paul Nicolson for his pre-2018 Haringey Council elections campaign of civil disobedience in refusing to pay Council Tax while many in that borough were made poorer by its Council Tax Reduction Scheme ignorance of their plight. Full Council Tax Reduction has been restored to the poorest families and Paul's refusal to pay Council Tax has ended.
She thinks the Bill drafted by Ian Wise is "a brilliant initiative" against the inhuman constraints imposed by right wing central government.
3.55 p.m.
Response from Councillor Zena Brabazon, Deputy Leader Haringey Council. Labour Party. [Zena was elected to Haringey Council in 2018 after campaigning actively against the Haringey Development Vehicle that Paul Nicolson was campaigning against. Through her campaigning she also met Prof Loretta Lees. Council housing policy has since been informed by inputs from Zacchaeus 2000 Trust, Child Poverty Action Group and other organisations. As a ward councillor she has also been informed by contact with ward constituents and her work as a school governor in recognising the extent of child poverty. She also acknowledges the life foundation given her by a caring state -- "not a nanny state: just a decent state."
She also thanked Paul Nicolson for his pre-2018 Haringey Council elections campaign of civil disobedience in refusing to pay Council Tax while many in that borough were made poorer by its Council Tax Reduction Scheme ignorance of their plight. Full Council Tax Reduction has been restored to the poorest families and Paul's refusal to pay Council Tax has ended.
She thinks the Bill drafted by Ian Wise is "a brilliant initiative" against the inhuman constraints imposed by right wing central government.
4.15 p.m.
Questions and discussion
Questions and discussion
4.55 p.m.
Conclusion - Jennifer Nadel of Compassion in Politics
5.00 p.m.Conclusion - Jennifer Nadel of Compassion in Politics
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NB: The event was originally to be chaired by Debbie Abrahams MP, but as a family friend of the late Frank Dobson MP she was attending Frank's funeral
See also https://newsforwardsfromalanwheatley.blogspot.com/2019/10/government-and-fiona-bruce-backing-for-mipim-uk-summit-2019.html
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