Haringey Horror

Oh, the horror! The horror! Abolishing Council Tax entirely for low-income residents. Bringing contracts outsourced to the private sector back in-house. Extending free school meals to every primary school child. Using empty council properties as homeless shelters. Creating a not-for-profit lettings agency, to offer homes at less than the market rate. Giving care workers a 10 per cent pay increase, as has already happened in Salford. Welcome to the coming nightmare in Haringey. Oh, the horror! The horror! 

It is suggested that the existing Labour Group might block these manifesto proposals, although of course that would not stop the new one from implementing them, anyway. But the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party can preempt that one by suspending all existing Haringey Councillors from the Labour Party. By such means did Simon Henig become the Leader of Durham County Council.

Henig, too, ought to be so suspended, along with everyone else who signed that letter to The Times in support of Claire Kober's evil scheme to create in Haringey the all-white state that Margaret Thatcher had wanted to create in South Africa. If that is not bringing the Labour Party into disrepute, then the concept has no meaning.

Henig, Nick Forbes and the rest have served notice that any local authority run by them will not consider abolishing Council Tax entirely for low-income residents. Or bringing contracts outsourced to the private sector back in-house. Or extending free school meals to every primary school child. Or using empty council properties as homeless shelters. Or creating a not-for-profit lettings agency, to offer homes at less than the market rate. Or giving care workers a 10 per cent pay increase, as has already happened in Salford.

But Henig, Forbes and the rest have also served notice that any local authority run by them will pursue the Kober-style programme of social and ethnic cleansing by eviction and demolition that leads one to assume that IDF will be called in to carry it out, and would have been called in by Haringey Council under its previous Leadership. It will have to be the IDF, because the South African Defence Force no longer exists. The South African Defence Force, whose uniform was once worn, and whose firearms were once wielded, by Jim Murphy, after his parents had moved to the Apartheid State as a political statement. New Labour, eh?

Dear, old New Labour, the party of Claire Kober and of her defenders, such as Simon Henig. The only people to have murdered an MP this century. The people who drive buses into crowds outside mosques because their plot to kill Jeremy Corbyn went awry. The people with whom Jacob Rees-Mogg chooses to associate. The people behind the Haringey Development Vehicle. And the people who are still running numerous local authorities, including Durham County Council.