Peter Hitchens: Securing Your Tenure?

The Broken Compass contains, among so much else, Peter Hitchens's doubts and regrets about the sale of council houses. Now, I am a good Chestertonian in this as in most (though not quite all) matters. I would dearly love every household to have a base of real property from which to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State. But within the practicalities of these things, there is also a very strong case that each locality should have a base of real property from which to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty centre.

The powers that be apparently cannot distinguish between the respectable working class and the characters from Shameless. So council and housing association tenants are therefore to lose security of tenure so that Shameless characters can be moved in next door to them, or even in place of them. Peter Hitchens is starting to look like a very valuable potential ally in the battle against this. I know that people involved in that struggle on a daily basis read this blog. They should contact him without delay.