(not satire – it’s George Osborne!)
George Osborne chose a new housing development in London yesterday to give his speech on how the economy is ‘turning the corner’.
The chancellor said the development – One Commercial Street – was “a physical reminder” of what has been happening to the economy.
Well, he’s certainly right about that.
Because the cheapest private apartments for sale at One Commercial Street start at £750,000 with penthouse suites costing millions.
And the 70 units which have been sold to a housing association – included because of Section 106 affordable housing requirements – will be in a separate part of the building and will have a completely separate entrance round the corner and well out of sight of the exclusive entrance used by the well-heeled, mainly foreign private tenants.
Yes – Osborne’s absolutely right about One Commercial Street being a physical reminder of the economy.
A rich minority living lives of luxury increasingly cut off from the majority struggling desperately to make ends meet – a direct result of Osborne’s economic policies of the past three years.
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For more on the symbolism of Osborne’s speech and One Commercial Street, have a look at this excellent blog post by Jules Birch:
Osborne’s symbol of turning a corner
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Reblogged this on HUMAN RIGHTS & POLITICAL JOURNAL.
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They sink lower and lower! When will the general public have had enough?
Thanks again Tom….you do such a great job!
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we in it tightening our belts while they still freely spending and having big rises oh yes they not in it with us
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We need a return to the community principles held by the Attlee government with the courage of the Bradbury pound replacing the bloodsucking Rothschilds private central banks. And here’s an idea – what if government could be formed using dedicated unpaid representatives as MP’s – you know MAYBE IT WOULD BE AN HONOUR -for people with conciences who treated politics as a vocation [like parents /guardians of the wellbeing of our social structure and commitment towards the betterment of the MAJORITY as a priority]? NOWADAYS POLITICIANS SEEM TO BE DRAWN FROM UNIVERSITY EDUCATED BOOKWORMS WHO HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED INTO A CORPORATE MINDSET . THEY LACK IN PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE DEPARTMENTS THEY OVERSEE – SOME HAVE PROVEN THEMSELVES TO BE UNTRUSTWORTHY AND WITHOUT PRINCIPLES.- OTHERS PLAIN INCOMPETANT – AND YET THE REWARDS, [in full public view] ARE OBSCENE -[just like the BBC]. THERE IS SO MUCH MORALLY AND ETHICALLY WHICH HAS BEEN TARNISHED IN THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH – OUR VALUES HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY CORRUPTED BY GREED FROM WITHIN THE ESTABLISHMENT. SO MANY SMALLER GROUPS AROUND THE COUNTRY WITH VARIOUS AXES TO GRIND NEED TO AMALGAMATE ,JOIN WITH UNIONS,RECOGNISED SYMPATHETIC PUBLIC FIGURES AND DISILLUSIONED “THEM’S” WHO WANT TO JOIN WITH US – [You know the people who can tell right from wrong or who do listen to their concience] ?? THEY MAY HAVE THE WARCHEST – BUT WE HAVE THE ARMY – AND IF IT MEANT WINNING THE WAR – I FOR ONE WOULD WOULD FIGHT FOR FREE – THE QUESTION IS – “HOW MANY OTHERS WOULD HELP CREATE A NEW WAY FORWARD ? It would of course need a fresh manifesto [ perhaps cherry picking from the good ones from existing parties and creating a few new ones] , developing membership , attracting [probably alternative] media exposure – imagine all the demonstrations and causes joining together to create a new MAJORITY party that uses “INTEGRITY” as its foundation stone – ….. “Just Dreaming there for a while ” – OR COULD IT REALLY HAPPEN ???
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michael lee..
agreed…. “could it really happen”, freedom should really happen!
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Virtual democracy is now feasible idea. MPs being told how to vote by the electorate in real time is possible. If Facebook can handle billions of accounts then 45 million user polling should be a doddle.
The only reason government IT projects keep failing is because those in power know sweet FA about computers. The reason Scameron wants to censor the internet is because he doesn’t understand it and the instinct of the ignorant is to stamp on anything that causes more than 2 seconds of cognitive disonance pain.
The reason UC won’t work is because LIAR Smith won’t settle on a set of rules to put into the program.
No serving politician wants to say that virtual democracy is feasible because they don’t want to lose the wedge they get from thier real paymasters. The current parties are neaderthal tribes wandering the information age trying to club the magic lights with the jaw bone of 19th century philosophy.
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@TOM..does a vicious circle have corners?
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pedantigeek…
ah, instant democracy, so pugins palace is actually obsolete..
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chewie..
so that we can know when we have turned 1…
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@donkey osbourne makes my stomach turn..
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chewie
that would be a normal human reaction!
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@donkey better than a chain reaction or nuclear reaction..
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@tom satire is alive in tory land..please do something on this eh?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416737/Poor-forced-use-food-banks-Theyve-got-blame-says-Michael-Gove.html
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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Reblogged this on David Hencke and commented:
The true nature of Osborne’s recovery: £1.4m front door homes for the rich ( marketed overseas) and 70 back door homes for London’s poor. ( the rich will need servants to live somewhere near). See Jules Birch’s blog on the marketing and history of the development.
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Love the servants quarters jibe david – you probably got it right tho ..:-(
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I worked in planning and building control for several years. Developers always insist on separate doors etc for affordable housing and private housing, whatever councils try to persuade them to do in their planning guidance etc. The developers’ argument is that they can’t get as much money for the private housing if it’s mixed in with the affordable housing. It stinks, but it is as it is, sadly!
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I work on minimum wage so I can afford one of these if I live to be over three thousand years old and dont squander any of my money on food, heating, clothes etc. BARGAIN!
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To think this country was noted for ending slavery and here we are importing foreigners that want us to work as their slaves.
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If those that saved for tomorrow lived for today then we would have no banks and a thriving economy.
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