Of Country Estates and Council Estates

That the Tories are coming round to the value of council housing is not only most welcome in itself (although it remains to be seen what will become of this in practice), but a reversion to their own tradition, which also includes the nationalisation of electricity between the Wars, the commitment to the NHS in all three manifestos in 1945, and the refusal of the Tories to abolish it, more or less bankrupt though it was, when they could perfectly easily have done so in 1951.

However, as with so many things (including opposition to the war in Afghanistan), people should vote for candidates who have been saying these things continuously, as no party has been doing. And they need to organise those candidates in order to be able to vote for them.