http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvx6 In 2000, President Robert Mugabe introduced "fast-track land reform" to Zimbabwe in a wave of often violent takeovers...
Please note: Jim Paton from ASS whose authority on matters pertaining to the law in relation to housing and land says that this 'freeman of the land' stuff,...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 2, 2011 11:53 pm
 I agree. Daniel Defoe said 'Law is but a heathen word for power'. Imagining you can challenge established power with legal technicalities is useless egoism....
Good stuff, Robin. I think your conclusion that "even the poorest class wants private property in land", using your example of a would-be right-to-buy council...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 4, 2011 6:12 pm
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that people just want secure, comfortable and affordable homes? I would bet a footballers wages to a farthing that the...
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marksimonbrown
Dec 5, 2011 12:56 am
Just want to pick Brendan up on something he said in reply to Dave on the 27th Nov on this list, where he said the following: "I did not know you were a...
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david bangs
dave.bangs@...
Dec 5, 2011 8:48 am
There is a crucial real-life defensive sruggle going on around the survival of council housing, Brendan. The future of the very poorest is on the line. There...
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david bangs
dave.bangs@...
Dec 5, 2011 8:50 am
... From: Defend Council Housing To: dave.bangs@... Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 1:00 AM Subject: All-out assault on council housing Stop...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 5, 2011 12:20 pm
Hi Dave, we should not affiliate to DCH. Under the umbrella of TLIO we can all agree that we want better access to housing; you would do it through state...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 5, 2011 5:24 pm
Hi Folks, I know it's short notice but tonight on channel 4 at 9 o'clock see THE GREAT BRITISH PROPERTY SCANDAL. Two million families are on the UK housing...
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Robin Smith
robinsmith3@...
Dec 5, 2011 5:41 pm
Video Credit to Chandaworld Productions http://gco2e.blogspot.com/2011/12/real-reform-does-economics-101-outside.html -- The Robin Smith Institute. Good News!...
Brendan said in reply to Dave: "We should not affiliate to DCH (Defend Council Housing). Under the umbrella of TLIO we can all agree that we want better access...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 7, 2011 8:15 pm
Hi Mark, You say:Â "I could only see that the type of person who wouldn't support public housing would be a neoliberal free-marketeer whose ideas we can...
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Ram Selva
seeds@...
Dec 7, 2011 10:37 pm
That makes it yet another Community to add to the array covered by CAMPACC? http://www.campacc.org.uk/ Ram...
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david bangs
dave.bangs@...
Dec 7, 2011 10:49 pm
I'm posting the following oiece to stimulate debate. It deals with a key strategic question...what attitude do elected progressive councils take to the...
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Darren
ukdarren2002
Dec 7, 2011 11:22 pm
http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2011/12/06/campaign-for-the-commons-rising-at-ows/ At the first face to face meeting of Occupy Wall Street’s Campaign for the...
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david bangs
dave.bangs@...
Dec 7, 2011 11:46 pm
I thoroughly agree with Mark's position. Well said !! My suggestion at the TLIO gathering plenary was that we take the "tiny step" (those were my words) of...
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Robin Smith
robinsmith3@...
Dec 8, 2011 12:42 am
Sorry folks. I have not come bearing gifts. http://youtu.be/T11vYRH1of0 If you are a constituent of Brighton, please pose the question to your MP. -- The Robin...
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Mike Hannis
mikehannis@...
Dec 8, 2011 1:31 pm
Although not wanting (or having the time) to get into this argument properly, I have to say I agree with Dave that Brendan's certainty here is misplaced. I...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 8, 2011 7:42 pm
Hi Dave, TLIO principles are deliberately broad and simple so that we can be an inclusive organisation. A notion that was perfectly expressed by yourself when...
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Brendan Boal
b_m_boal
Dec 8, 2011 8:33 pm
Owning property has been made almost impossibly expensive in this country, yet despite the difficulties, 70% of us still do.  If we actively prevented...
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david bangs
dave.bangs@...
Dec 8, 2011 9:39 pm
Hiya Brendan, You didn't answer my question...which was..."Do I take it (...) that your opposition to the struggle against the privatisation of public housing...
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Paul Mobbs
mobbsey@...
Dec 9, 2011 12:01 am
Hi all, Due to demand from the people it's been unofficially passed onto, we've released the discussion paper from the Free Range Network's Summer Gathering: ...
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Ram Selva
seeds@...
Dec 9, 2011 4:46 am
Hi folks, Many related list mails -too lengthy; far too many points -many on failed Western social experiments. Don´t want to attack one particular individual...
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david bangs
dave.bangs@...
Dec 9, 2011 3:40 pm
Hiya Ram, Can you please explain how DCH is "trying to hijack the long suffering poor etc...?" In my DCH branch we had non-party folk, of course, and tory and...
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Tony Gosling
diggers350
Dec 9, 2011 4:21 pm
Millions of Brits cannot afford a 'nice car' - they could not afford their house either so millions have got into debt, now biting their nails. Council housing...
