Tomorrow at 2pm I will be taking part in the Housing Hustings for Lambeth at St Matthew's Church, commonly known as 'The Brix' in Brixton as the Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Vauxhall. Others on the platform will include Kate Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall, and Chris Nicholson , the Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate for Streatham and the Lib Dems equivalent of Lord Ashcroft, i.e. a very rich man indeed who is pouring money into his election campaign and has been the subject of reports in the national press.
I am expecting a lot of very irate council tenants and leaseholders and there is certainly enough to be angry about in Lambeth when it comes to housing. The event is being organised by Defend Council Housing who are also holding their national conference in Congress House all day tomorrow and I hope that many people will attend. I will be putting the case for the Green Party's policies on housing and addressing some of the real problems which have arisen in Lambeth. I am totally shocked, for example, of the story of a disabled man who has to live in a care home for 10 years because Lambeth Council cannot find him a flat. The story was all over the front page of the South London Press last week. He was so frustrated that he took his case directly to Downing Street
http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=9127&headline=Disabled man doorsteps Gordon Brown
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