We met tonight. We were united in our disgust at how the Labour Government operates with regards to to the funding of social housing. It is now apparent that the current fnancial settlement is a front to raise even more revenue for the Exchquer and has nothing to do with the provision of homes for those who need them most.
It appears the government has finally admitted that Housing Subsidy is nothing of the sort. In previous years the government sort to claim that areas like Tandridge which pay £3million plus a year to the Government in 'negative' subsidy were sharing the burden with more deprived areas - but it appears that that the Government has at last come clean. The whole of England pays a 'negative subsidy'. Council's across the land are paying this government a tax that could otherwise be providing affordable rented or owner-occupied accomodation and it all appears to be being raised by smoke and mirrors.
